let's get small
Nov. 6th, 2006 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightLast Monday, we had a consultation with an endocrinologist at Children's Hospital, to make sure nothing was medically wrong with Kylie's growth. She's always been at the 3rd percentile in height and weight - always growing, but never catching up to her peers.
We got there at 2:00 for a 2:30 appointment, and got the paperwork finished just in time for her appointment. ...And waited...and waited...and watched Spongebob with the sound mercifully turned off...and waited some more. And it was 4:30 before they actually saw us. The small upside is that, even though they were running way behind, they didn't try to catch up at our expense. We had a nice long consult with the doctor, and Kylie got poked and prodded (inspected, detected, neglected, and selected), and asked all manner of (to her) bizarre questions ("Has your sense of smell changed recently?). Then they sent us down the hall to X-ray her wrist (to check the state of the growth plates, and estimate bone age [11]), and take about two dozen blood samples. And so it was 7:00 before we were out of there.
So the upshot is, it took five hours and a week to determine that Kylie is just small. Based on the results of a three-month followup visit, we may be considering growth hormones. Or she may just grow on her own.
We got there at 2:00 for a 2:30 appointment, and got the paperwork finished just in time for her appointment. ...And waited...and waited...and watched Spongebob with the sound mercifully turned off...and waited some more. And it was 4:30 before they actually saw us. The small upside is that, even though they were running way behind, they didn't try to catch up at our expense. We had a nice long consult with the doctor, and Kylie got poked and prodded (inspected, detected, neglected, and selected), and asked all manner of (to her) bizarre questions ("Has your sense of smell changed recently?). Then they sent us down the hall to X-ray her wrist (to check the state of the growth plates, and estimate bone age [11]), and take about two dozen blood samples. And so it was 7:00 before we were out of there.
So the upshot is, it took five hours and a week to determine that Kylie is just small. Based on the results of a three-month followup visit, we may be considering growth hormones. Or she may just grow on her own.
