Morgan's afternoon...

was spent at the pediatric gastroenterologist's office. (Say that three times fast!) They examined him, ordered more blood work, and gave Morgan instructions on how to collect samples for further testing. Dr. said right now he is thinking one of three things: 1, the parasite the boys had in Aug of 07 never completely flushed out of his system. Unfortunately St. Jo's West doesn't have the name of the parasite on file because they never actually ran the test because the dr didn't bother to sign the order, even though I insisted several times they run tests for parasites. (No, I'm still not happy about that!) 2. a bacterial infection. This is treatable, treatment depends on what kind of bacteria. 3. Celiac's disease is something they are going to look into. It would account for his weight loss, as well as him not growing in the last two years. (If you're family, and you know of a history of celiac's please let us know. The dr was wanting to know if there is history of celiac's or chrone's in our family.)

Please keep praying for him as we go down this not-so-fun road.

Praise: According to Jeff, the doctor and the nurse practicioner they saw today were both very good to deal with. When I asked Dr. Callahan for a referral, I asked him if this was his child going through this, who would he go to, Dr. Callahan said Dr. Rosenblum. Dr. C said Dr. R is very thorough and will keep searching until we have answers to why he is lost all this weight.