Even Vicki and Dr P said it was... but I'll get to that in a second.
We finished up our Christmas shopping today for the kids, save for a few stocking stuffers left to pick up. Scot, Sax, and I hit up Mill's Fleet Farm first, then hit up a restaurant we've never tried before thanks to a recommendation of a friend: Whistle Binkie's on the Lake. Nice view, good food, and decent prices :) We'll be going there again! We're always looking for somewhere differet to try instead of the usual haunts, which can get old after a while.
Sax did what I can only describe as the most disgusting thing I can think of.... Daddy took him to use the bathroom. While Daddy had his back turned, Sax decided to wash his hands - thinking the "pee biscuits" in the urinals were soap!!! GROSS!!! Daddy scrubbed Sax's hands and gave him a huge lecture on what IS and what IS NOT soap. Ugh - makes me shudder!!!
Sax had to be at the clinic at 1 for his GI appt. It was just an annual check and everything looked really well, save for some mild bloating. Dr E ordered a celiac test and vitamin check for his next checkup in Feb.
After GI, we had appointments with Vicki, Dr P, then the dietitian. I wasn't sure why we were meeting with dietitian other than Sax's BMI has been varying so much. I figured it would be another pep talk about getting him to do the impossible and gain some weight.
Vicki was in a really good mood when she came in for her appointment with Sax, in spite of a horrible head cold and sinus infection (very thankful she didn't want to share and masked up!) She checked Sax out and send Dr P in for his part of the checkup. Dr P seemed a little more excited than normal too... we wondered what was up.
We were told that, since Saxon started coming to CF clinic, he had his very best checkup. Ever. They said they have not seen him this healthy in the past 4 years. His pulse ox was 100% and all the gunk in his lungs has cleared out.
The reason for the appointment with the dietitian, we discovered, was a final push to put some chub on the little man because in January his BMI was 59%, in June his BMI was 37%, and in August at his last appointment his BMI was down to 18%. With the rate of decline, the discussion of a feeding tube was being approached again.
Well, Sax decided that's not what he wanted - because he finally gained weight. And quite a bit for the time period!
He went from 14.9 kg to 16.3 kg in the last 3 months.
His BMI went from 18% to 64% in the last 3 months.
For someone with a serious life-shortening disease, hearing that he checks out the healthiest they've ever seen is one helluva reason to celebrate :)
So for his dietitian appointment, we spent the time discussing how we can keep him gaining, and what's going to happen when he turns 5 and we can no longer get WIC to cover his PediaSure. The dietitian sent me some links and also suggested I look into finding 'homemade pediasure' recipes, which I've started checking into. I'm hoping we can experiment and maybe find something that will work before we actually do run out of PediaSure.....
