Settling in
After the whirlwind first evening at the conference, it was nice to get our “sea legs” coming into day two. We were able to get registered easily and connect with several California families, and share our stories.
After a quick lunch, Nabila and I decided to divide and conquer several of the medical sessions. Beyond the medical and informational sessions, it’s impressive the amount of content, activity and expertise we’ve found at the event.
It also is bringing me to a realization (that will be later confirmed): We’re spoiled in the San Francisco Bay Area, when it comes to medical expertise.
Just Breathe
The sessions I attended were on Breathing and Hearing. Both lead by a Doctor from Children’s Hospital Oakland, Dr. Richard Kerbavaz. In both sessions you got a sense of his manner and experience with patients. It was interesting to hear about the commonalities in the application of CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) to assist in breathing and it was a consistent theme from infants all the way to adults. We’ll be starting Yasmeen on CPAP in the coming weeks. More to come on this topic.
I Hear You
In the session related to hearing, the only consistent theme I could gather was “Tubes” in that to assist in draining of fuild to ensure that fluid caused hearing loss could be prevented or at least lessened. This feedback was timely in that we’ll also be doing a hearing test with Yassie at Lucile Packard. And the fact that she’s been congested for the past month, well, we shall see…
