Doctor Visits

Yesterday we took both kids to see the doctor. Lily had her two week check up and we had a follow-up about Luke's knees. Dr. Purcell said Lily is looking great! She is back up to birth weight and we just have to bring her back in two weeks to make sure she keeps gaining. That also means I don't have to be as neurotic about waking her up to eat and she can sleep longer at night. She slept for five hours between feedings last night! I was very excited.

We're still not sure exactly what the problem is with Luke's knees. For about the last two months he has been waking up at night screaming and telling us his knee hurts. We went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago to see if she could figure it out and they took blood and sent him for x-rays, but both of those came back completely normal. That is a very good thing, but she's still not sure what is causing him to wake up hurting. She thinks it might be something like juvenile arthritis, but without the visible signs of inflammation. We have an appointment with a rheumatologist at Texas Children's next month and hopefully she'll be able to give us more information or at least tell us what we can do to help him feel better when he's hurting. We'll keep you posted on what we find out.