Specialists

When we are little we are taught that special is a good thing. You get a special treat sometimes, or get to do something special for your birthday. In the grown up world, special is rarely good. And certainly going to see a specialist because your regular doctor is baffled by your condition is not something most of us jump up and down to sign up for. So what are we spending our time doing these days? Driving to JHH to likely wait hours to see specialists for a few minutes. For both kids. Yes, my kids are both "special." Super awesome fun.

Many of our close friends and family know of our bathroom adventures with Noelle. Casual blog readers have probably picked up on the fact that my almost 4 year olds bladder habits aren't exactly normal for a child of her age and ability. So off we go to Johns Hopkins Pediatric Urology. She has already had a complete blood work up and an ultrasound of her kidneys but since those didn't hint at the potential problem, we are bringing in the big guns. Hopefully they can give us some answers and easily fix my little girl. Being able to go places where bathrooms aren't within a 3 minute run would be awesome. And getting rid of pull-ups once and for all would be lovely!

For his part, Kellen will be going to Johns Hopkins Pediatric Hematology. For the past 6 months we have been treating him for anemia. Well turns out when they did his most recent blood work up that isn't exactly his problem. His combined blood count numbers are low but his iron specific number is right in the range where it should be. So we'll be consulting with the blood experts to decide whether this is a problem. The pediatrician's guess is that he is fine, especially since he doesn't show any signs of being sick in any way, but we just need to double check. So back down to Hopkins we will go.

So that's our life right now. Prayers for my little ones are always appreciated!