Brad pointed out to me as well, "Could you imagine having been pregnant for the last nine months? Everything we've dealt with with Brady, could you imagine having been pregnant through that all?" I can't. And I can't imagine having another baby and going through even half of what we've gone through with Brady again. Two is starting to sound more and more like the perfect number.
Here is a run down on our doctor appointments this week:
Pulmonologist Highlights:
- Very concerned about his weight (what got me the most down), but wanted to defer to gastro for his thoughts.
- Even though Brady has had a lot of respiratory infections it did not surprise him due to where his immunity levels are at and should be what I can expect for the next cold/flu season and possibly the next few after. (BUMMER) HOPEFULLY will outgrow it by 3 but if not HOPEFULLY 4 or 5.
- Still having to thicken Brady's liquids. When he has a healthy window again we will try to ween him off the thickener and if it is unsuccessful will have to do a bronchoscopy (scope) to investigate the airway/lungs. PRAYING we do not have to do this.
- Even though his weight was not where he would like to have seen it (he's gained about 1 lb since January 11th), he is not too far off from where he should be on his own growth curve. Not sure if I've mentioned on here before or not but in the midst of Brady's bugs over the last month or two he started refusing his formula from bottle or sippy cup and only thing he will drink is water. The extra calorie formula he was on provided approximately 500 additional calories a day. And with those gone, even if he's made up for some of that in extra table food, he's missing a lot of calories. He feels if he had stayed on the formula his weight would be right where he would have liked to see it.
- Good news, he has grown 1 1/2 inches in height! The doctor actually made the nurse re-measure to make sure it was accurate because was shocked (in a good way) he had grown that much in this amount of time. YEA! Because of this, he did not feel we needed to be referred to an endocrinologist like he had mentioned at our last visit.
- He said he hates to put him on another medicine, but he's going to. He called in an appetite stimulant to hopefully encourage Brady to consume additional calories.
- He said I'm a conservative doctor and basically all of his tests (and there have been a lot of tests) have come back normal, he looks healthy, acts healthy and developmentally is right on track, and I feel if we can get him to gain additional calories he'll get to where we need him to, so now...we wait. I said, well I am not patient and am over waiting and the worrying if I have a healthy child or not. His response back was, please leave my office reassured that Brady is a healthy child and I am confident he is on track and we will help boost him to where he needs to be. Okay, I'll take that for now.
- We will do a weight check in 6 weeks.
No comments:
Post a Comment