Doctors Appointment and the cough.

Katana's doctor appointment went great! She is released to go back to school of course that was before she came down with a cough yesterday. I am thinking sinus stuff cause it started out as a runny nose then an ear ache and now a cough. So no school today. Give her the weekend to recover from the cough. I can't wait to get laminate flooring put down because I know this carpet isn't good for her respiratory system. Just waiting on an estimate to get things rolling on that. But anyway more details on her doctors appointment. They are amazed with her progress, he couldn't believe how good she looked. She was bouncing around the office all smiles. He really didn't think 100% of her problem was her shunt but he is now thinking it was more the shunt than he thought. Her headaches are gone, her pain is gone, and she is finally a typical 5 year old. He said he could see a difference between this visit and last visit. The last visit he didn't think she was in constant pain from all of this but now he is second guessing that. The last visit she was careful getting on and off the table and this visit she was pretty much jumping on and off the table. She has a bounce back in her step that we haven't seen in a long time, and she was giggling a playing around with Dr. Igbase. He has never seen her like that but he was enjoying seeing it. It used to be she would only giggle when she was tickled or we laughed, yesterday she was quite the joker. She kept playing jokes on Dr. Igbase and then laughing.

So the plan from here on out is to get a Rapid sequence MRI in April to use as a baseline for her new ventricle size, then an xray after to check her shunt setting and fix it if necessary. Then as long as she continues to do well we will see Dr. Igbase again in August. Then every 6 months as long as she is doing good. Oh and one more exciting thing from her appointment yesterday, Katana is finally gaining weight. Which would make no since if she wasn't so much like me and Grandma Sandi, neither one of us eat when we are in pain so I guess Katana doesn't eat when she is in pain. She hasn't gained a pound in almost two years sticking at 34 lbs. Yesterday she finally hit the 35lb mark. I was excited to say the least.