The Appointment
Yesterday was our "family appointment" with the Infectious Disease Doctor. To be truthful, it is a tad chaotic when a family of seven has to sit in a treatment room made for two. But we managed. Each child was questioned, prodded, checked and double-checked and turns out they are all fairly healthy and somewhat normal. (Although Jack was dying of embarrassment when the resident wanted to feel his stomach!) We started out with a round of blood work, then met with the resident and then waited for the ID Doc. About three weeks ago, Kylie had blood work done and one of her "numbers" (her CRP) was way too high. Up until that point, her numbers had been normal so this jump to a higher number was a bit of a scare. We weren't sure what was going on inside her. When we met with our ID doc yesterday, she told us that it could take up to four or five hours to get the results back and that she would call us later in the day. In the meantime, she took a look at K