Day 385 - Endocrine Appt & Blood Labs 💉🩸
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 Current Weight: 8.865kg (19 lb 8.7 oz) Current Height: 65.3 cm Today we had our Endocrine appointment and we got a current height and weight on James. It was just Mom and the nurse today. A little tricky but only one person is allowed in the room at a time. The nurse was asked to stand in the hall. 🤷🏻♀️ Even though we work very closely together all day? That being the case... Mom needed to take James out of the stroller and move him to the scale and measurement counter without the stroller tipping over from the weight of the ventilator. The doctor decided we should get labs done to see if we could wean him off of sodium chloride and/or calcium. These are the two meds that are prescribed by the endocrinologist. James already had a lab order from the pediatrician to check his lead levels as well as a hemoglobin count. Mom wanted to limit the number of times James would get stuck with a needle and put off the pediatrician lab order from last week unti...