My 3 year old has been on growth hormone injection Nutrapen since he was only a few months old. He does awesome with it. He pulls up his pant leg (we only rotate legs). If I give him his vitiamin while I do the […]

We started early last week. She ran away from us and then hid under the nurse’s chair in the doctor’s office. And screamed bloody murder the first few times. She’s finally realized it’s not too bad, […]

Hi you guys (Sylvia, I don’t know how I missed this!),
Both kids have been on injections and the best thing that worked for them was a warm compress before and after – we just used one of those microwave […]

We are about to start as well with our five year old. We went to a friends house recently who does growth hormone and my son watched his friend get it. I heard it is not as painful as other shots but I know my son […]

Oy vey. A sedated CT scan, 3 sets of chest x-rays (so 12 total) a thoracentesis and 3 nights in the hospital and we come home with a diagnosis of reactive airway. Yeesh!

Really, that’s one of the hardest things I think, just waiting until they know what’s going on. I hate it when they say, “oh it looks like ‘x’” so you prepare for ‘x’ and you get everything ready, mentally and physically to deal with ‘x’ and then they come back and say, “Oops, no. It [...]

Thanks ladies. They’re going to do a thoracentesis tomorrow morning to drain the fluid and run some tests on it. Then we’re going to see if he improves, how much, and how long it takes for it to come back. Then we’ll have to decide if we are going to mess with the shunt that’s [...]

Sending thoughts and prayers. The mom in me hates when things just can’t be fixed.

Thinking of you Sylvia! Hope they find out what is going on SOON!

Alrighty then… now they’re saying he doesn’t have an infection, so we’re trying to figure out what is going on and what needs to be done about it. He’s been admitted because he wasn’t improving on the antibiotics and we need some answers!

Pneumonia, with partial atelectasis. Lovely. It’s funny, he doesn’t even have a cough.