What? You didn't know he was sick? Well, neither did I but his doctors had decided that he needed to have EVERYTHING tested...just to be sure his health wasn't an illusion. Ok?? I've never been one to turn down thorough health care, so sure, you can take some blood. And, I guess you can have some more... Oh, you want everything he eats documented in detail and all of his poop collected for 3 days plus a couple of one time samples? A sweat test for cystic fibrosis?? But we had Todd tested an he wasn't a carrier. Oh, that test isn't thorough enough for you - why did we do it at all then? Ok, this was getting to be too much!
After much deliberation, we decided to go with the flow and let them run ALL of their crazy tests. Why? Because Andrew is a light weight. Yes, just like my other two kids, skinny. I guess this is something rather scary, in case he got the flu or something. But what can you do? Our genetics combine to make skinny kids - the heaviest of the three was a mere 18 lbs. at her year mark. Andrew is no exception. But turns out, after all the testing, the GI specialist could find nothing wrong. In fact, of all his "small" children, Andrew's labs were the best.
I could be annoyed at all the over-attention, and complain about the numerous $10 and $20 co-pays for multiple visits, not to mention the gas and time involved...but in reality, I'm grateful. Grateful that Andrew is, in fact, healthy and strong. Grateful for doctors who care enough to "make sure" everything is well. And grateful to my Heavenly Father for entrusting the care of His spirit children to me, an inexperienced, yet heavily opinionated mortal.
5 comments:
I am glad everything is well with him. I have a friend who has the same problem with her three boys. Keeping weight on them is always the problem and the doctors are always worried about it. With her third she just said "My boys are skinny and small that's what we make". Now she is less stressed with skinny boys!
Yes, we have always had this problem also! They have tested Scott for everything, and keep giving us referals to the nutritionst, which we keep refusing since all the tests show he is perfectly fine! Both kids were 14 lbs at a year.
I know you went through a lot with all the testing and you even expected it was all for nothing, but how wonderful to really know! I'm so glad to hear that everything came out good.
Remind me not to take Max to your doctor! WOW! But then again, it's nice to know he's healthy!
You know I was just thinking about this today...how ridiculous it was for me to have Wyatt have a blood test before he was a year old because they too thought something was wrong because he was very tiny for his age. HELLo! I was tiny when I was little too. Dana said not to and I shouldn't have done it. To this day he is still small in weight but like you said it's the genes.
Glad to hear Andrew is okay. Take care.
-Genni Bain
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