and the Weiner

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Maybe take her out of gymnastics and put her in Maga Krav (major street

fighting, self protection type of tae kwondo.)! Then she can grab weiners

sor any other body part and be perfectly appropriate. Anyway, she would

learn self protection at the same time. :`)

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

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>Subject: Another Update/ and the GI topic from last week

>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:39:50 -0400

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> Seeing imitation is the highest form of flattery I'm going to copy

>Carol and give our also crazy update on .

> A couple of days ago they faxed her bloodwork results to me (from

>the GI guy) and all her red blood counts are low.... again with the

>calcium, vitamin D, and protein. (This kid eats more protein than any

>carnivore known to mankind). She had a double appointment tuesday with the

>endo and the hematologist. We're still waiting for results from the work

>they did that day (like thyroid) but apparently she has a double form of

>anemia.... B12 and iron. The Cal, Vit D (which we hoped would get better

>after we weaned her off of a high dose of Prevacid for 4 years....so much

>for that theory) has been an ongoing problem for years. The protein thing

>has too but all the doc's horses and all the doc's men can't figure out how

>to put back together again. The three of them are all on the same

>floor at the hospital and they were scurrying around trying to come up with

>something that resembles an answer.

> Yesterday I get a call from the Gastro's office....it's probably

>malabsorbtion. (HELLO....isn't that what Dad and I have been saying for 15

>years????). Anyway so far she's on iron pills 4 times a day (her tummy will

>just love this I know), more and a different brand of calcium, increased

>dose of Rocaltrol (vit D), acidophilus 3 times a day, yada yada..and we go

>back in 2 weeks to retest everything.

> She's been very lethargic and irritable so I knew something was up

>but figured it was probably Thyroid. Still may be. Anyway if you have read

>this far, bless you, and here is the question I have for all of you

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>HELP HELP (for emphasis) 's scheduled for a " UGI xray with small bowel

>follow thru " .

>I know we were all talking about these tests last week but I have

>malabsorbtion of the brain so if those of you who have experienced this

>could repeat your info I'd appreciate it. Apparently it's the barium

>swallow thing and they're apparently going to x ray it thru to the small

>bowel? Anybody remember how much barium gunk we have to get into them? (we

>did the swallowing thing when she was 7 so it's been 10 years for us.

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>Meanwhile we're still doing zantac, synthroid, clonidine, zinc etc. so

>Carol, my fellow pharmacist, I empathize.

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>Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated. Oh yeah they're also gonna do

>some sort of blood test that has to be sent specially to california to

>determine whether or not she has inflammation in the GI tract. Anyone know

>about this one?

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>Thank you all,

>wish I had a cute skirt story to tell. The only " cute " thing she is doing

>is trying to pull her boobs off and has generalized it to dad while in the

>pool hehe. And last Thu at gymnastics she was up to her old " grab the boys'

>weiners " trick. sigh.

>Sherry

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