from head to toe

Kami and I spent two hours at the pediatricians office this afternoon. It went really well, the doc was extremely thorough and really checked her out head to toe. Kami was such a champ the whole time. There was not one tear and she even answered the doctors questions. (such a difference from her appt. last year when she bawled from the minute we walked in the office door until the minute we walked in our front door).

So the verdict? More tests......

An x-ray of her adenoids (because of the crazy snoring and mouth breathing).

A referral to the gastrointestinal doctor at the Children's Hospital. Oh yeah, did I mention she has several gallstones? It's crazy.

Some samples of a pill to aid the trial of a lactose-free diet. (Side-note: when I was telling Dan about "no-dairy" Kami cried because she thought she couldn't eat Dairy Queen ever again, poor kid).

A crazy amount of blood work to check her liver function.

A urinalysis.

A "sweat test" to check for cystic fibrosis.

Most of these will be done on Thursday. Hopefully we will not have to wait too long to get into the G.I. at the Children's Hospital. As we were leaving the pediatricians office she said "make sure if she ever has really bad pain, like screaming pain, you take her to emergency right away".... and I replied "oh, screaming in pain like she does every night?". I don't think they really understand how it is. Oh, well. Maybe after all this we will get some better answers than the "growing pains" that most docs give me. (Although the ped. did say she is so flat-footed and has such poor muscle tone that she probably does get strained muscles and sore legs.)

Oh, and one more thing I forgot... I'm supposed to feed her All Bran Buds with Psylium. I wonder how she'll like that in her lactose-free milk.... sounds disgusting tasty to me!