Sunday, December 27, 2009

Project Lifesaver!!

On December 22 an officer from the Stafford County Sheriff's Department came and now Brady is all set up with Project Lifesaver. PLS is an amazing tool and has saved many lives. I'm thankful we have such technology to keep Brady safe. We had to pay $200 for the transmitter and then $25 a month for a new battery. Most counties surrounding us offer it for free but our county doesn't get very many sponsers so we have to pay. This is a trend with Stafford County in general.

He was mad at me the first day for putting it on him. He asked us to take it off many times by holding his ankle up. We told him no and explained that he had to wear it for his safety. He hasn't asked since then.


Monday, December 21, 2009

Colonoscopy and Endoscopy scheduled

January 15 Brady will have his second scope.

Dr. Hart is concerned with Brady's poor growth. Currently Brady weighs 37 pds which is in the 10th percentile. He continually moves down in percentiles. He defenitely has malabsorption issues. He is concerned as I am about his pancreas. He is going to do a pancreatic enzyme stimulation by administering Secretin during the scope. I am anxious to see if Brady does in fact have pancreatic insufficiency. We'll accomplish this by aspirating the intestinal contents and sending them to an outside lab to assess the function and adequacy of his pancreatic enzymes. Brady often has moderate amounts of fat in his stool indicating he's not making enough lipase enzymes. We'll see.

Brady started the GFCF diet March 21, 2006....nearly four years ago. Starting this August we started allowing him to have gluten and casein with enzymes. I am afraid that he's not able to tolerate them even with enzymes. Dr. Hart agreed much to my dismay.

I'm anxious for this procedure.