Kendell had another one of her regular 3 month checkups a couple of weeks ago. Not too shocking but she didn't gain any weight, NOT.EVEN.AN.OUNCE! I was a little surprised, because I thought she'd been eating pretty good, but she never seems to gain much weight in the Summer so I guess I should know better by now. If she follows her past patterns, she'll have 2 or 3 bad visits then she'll have a huge weight gain and we'll all be happy for a bit.
She was due for her labs this visit and we had some weird results there. Her CBC was showing low white blood cells. They asked if she'd been sick, but she hadn't so we had to go back a week later and recheck them. That draw showed white blood cells back normal again, but low iron. We will have to go back again in a month to follow up on that but in the meantime she's been told to eat red meat, beans and dark greens like spinach. I almost laughed. This would be an awesome diet for her, but she refuses to eat all 3 of those things. I'm a little nervous about the fact that she doesn't like much meat at all right now. I wouldn't normally worry too much except a. she really needs the protein for her growth and b. she doesn't like any other iron or protein supplying foods (I may have just made up that term:)
we'll see what comes of it.....
She also saw the GI doc again this visit. He is still worried about the stool he can feel in her intestines. I'm wondering how many times they'll feel it and point it out before they actually do surgery?
Also, she's been having pains in her chest. We think possible heartburn, but he was pretty concerned about it and told us to really watch it to see if there's a food pattern. He said with the medications she's on (prevacid being one), she shouldn't be having heartburn symptoms. So not sure what to make of that, but we'll keep on eye on her like we always do....
We sure love our Kendell bugs! She's a pretty good sport with the hand she has been "dealt" in this life. Every now and then I feel sad and wish this wasn't our, reality (hers especially), but there's nothing I can do to change it and it won't do any good to dwell on the "what ifs." I just remember how grateful I am that with all things considered she is pretty darn healthy!
