Last week I took B to his 5 yr old well check with his primary. He pretty much hates doctors right now. You would too if every time you went they poked and prodded you or stuck a tongue depressor down your throat. We got some hard (for us) news that B has high cholesterol. What kills me is that he has such a limited amount of foods that he will eat. Beside maybe 1 tbsp of peanut butter a day, 1 piece of cheese daily, or the occasional french fry or chicken nugget, he doesn't really eat anything that I would classify as "bad". He drinks skim milk, eats lots of yogurt and raisins and all his bread is whole wheat. We also found that he's only in the 15th percentile for height but 95th for weight, putting him at risk for obesity.
The Dr. threw around a bunch of theories (such as he doesn't move around enough..ha! to Prader-Willie Syndrome) and ordered a massive set of blood work. Today we took him to the children's hospital to get it all done. Needless to say, I couldn't sleep well last night because I knew how stressful today would be.
It literally took 2 nurses, a special nurse from the ER, a phlebotomist, my husband and I and one person that work as a childlife specialist for the hospital to get it done. They had to stick him 3 times (hand and once in each arm) to finally get it done.
You have never seen a child fight so hard. That is one thing that I will give B..his will to fight is amazing. I know that this will serve him well as he gets older. We've always joked, even during his actual birth, that he's like a UFC fighter.
Perhaps that's why he's come as far as he has.
I felt so guilty for having to take him there and hold him down like that. As a parent you know what's good for your child, but having to be the bad cop all the time isn't fun!
By the time we got out to the car he was eating his usual breakfast and seemed to be happy. The wonderful people at Kosair gave him a set of Thomas bath toys (he was in heaven). He carried on with the rest of the day and went to speech therapy and then saw his case worker.
He also was so exhausted that he had to lay down and fell asleep. Before he drifted off though he wouldn't let my arm go. Smothering me with the sweetest kisses. Lately he's been the kissing king. He loves to love on people. I'm so fortunate to have child that can express his love so freely.
Hopefully we'll have the test results back quickly. Until then I'm going to just keep enjoying my little love bug!
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