Thursday morning Pie had her appointment with the genetics doctor at 9am in the Minneapolis Children's Hospital. We had a little wait but then they brought us back to the area to check her blood pressure and weight. Pie was scared and upset a little so they ended up having to do her blood pressure twice to make sure her numbers were in the normal range (which they were). After a short wait in the room a nurse, doctor, student and another lady came in to the room. The nurse just talked a little and got Pie some juice to help her calm down some. The doctor started to ask for a history on Kadence's life and my pregnancy with her. They decided to run a few tests on what I had said then the doctor rambled off some rather large confusing words to the student! I was needless to say very confused! Then the doctor and student left and let the other lady take down all our family history. After that the doctor came in and told me she felt Pie might have Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia. There were a few other things she mentioned but felt that this was the most likely to be what Pie has. (
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The doctor also said she wanted me to take Pie to an Opthamologist to check her eyes out. We still have to make that appointment but will do so soon! They sent us down to lab again for Pie to give her blood one more time. They poked Pie in the same arm they took blood from the day before and they didn't get anything so the had to poke her again in the other arm. I felt horrible for Pie she kept asking me to do it and I couldn't help her understand that I didn't know what I was doing.. But Pie did get herself a new little bear for doing so good! The blood they took will help run 6 to 10 different genetic tests. What they said to me is they are looking for one of Pie's genes to be miss spelled. They also said it could be something that they have never seen before which is kind of scary.. This will take 40 days for the first one to be done and 10 days for each following test. So we hope to hear something back in 40 to 90 days. So we will keep praying for the best news.
This appointment lasted about 4 hours and we were all ready to do something fun so we choose to check out the Minneapolis Science Museum! It was full of cool stuff! Pirates, human body parts, a mummy, two headed turtle, guitars, flames, boats and much more! We spent a long time there checking out all the amazing stuff! All the kids loved it and I have to admit I thought it was great too!
It was a lot better then the school shopping we did in Albertsville on Friday or all the driving we did Saturday to get home! But Friday and Saturday weren't all bad! We got to spend them with some of our favorite people and we got to eat really yummy food! My favorite was my monster omelet and Pie loved her hot cocoa at the Original Pancake House! But the end of our time in Minneapolis is always sad with all the good byes..
Thursday morning Pie had her appointment with the genetics doctor at 9am in the Minneapolis Children's Hospital. We had a little wait but then they brought us back to the area to check her blood pressure and weight. Pie was scared and upset a little so they ended up having to do her blood pressure twice to make sure her numbers were in the normal range (which they were). After a short wait in the room a nurse, doctor, student and another lady came in to the room. The nurse just talked a little and got Pie some juice to help her calm down some. The doctor started to ask for a history on Kadence's life and my pregnancy with her. They decided to run a few tests on what I had said then the doctor rambled off some rather large confusing words to the student! I was needless to say very confused! Then the doctor and student left and let the other lady take down all our family history. After that the doctor came in and told me she felt Pie might have Multiple Epiphyseal Dysplasia. There were a few other things she mentioned but felt that this was the most likely to be what Pie has. (http://demo.perthes.org.uk/?page_id=180) 
The doctor also said she wanted me to take Pie to an Opthamologist to check her eyes out. We still have to make that appointment but will do so soon! They sent us down to lab again for Pie to give her blood one more time. They poked Pie in the same arm they took blood from the day before and they didn't get anything so the had to poke her again in the other arm. I felt horrible for Pie she kept asking me to do it and I couldn't help her understand that I didn't know what I was doing.. But Pie did get herself a new little bear for doing so good! The blood they took will help run 6 to 10 different genetic tests. What they said to me is they are looking for one of Pie's genes to be miss spelled. They also said it could be something that they have never seen before which is kind of scary.. This will take 40 days for the first one to be done and 10 days for each following test. So we hope to hear something back in 40 to 90 days. So we will keep praying for the best news.
This appointment lasted about 4 hours and we were all ready to do something fun so we choose to check out the Minneapolis Science Museum! It was full of cool stuff! Pirates, human body parts, a mummy, two headed turtle, guitars, flames, boats and much more! We spent a long time there checking out all the amazing stuff! All the kids loved it and I have to admit I thought it was great too!
It was a lot better then the school shopping we did in Albertsville on Friday or all the driving we did Saturday to get home! But Friday and Saturday weren't all bad! We got to spend them with some of our favorite people and we got to eat really yummy food! My favorite was my monster omelet and Pie loved her hot cocoa at the Original Pancake House! But the end of our time in Minneapolis is always sad with all the good byes..
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