Man, oh man, has our little boy been through the ringer. I'd love to say all is well, but we're still cautious in being optimistic about how Guy is doing. This past week we took him to an allergist who tested him for all sorts of food allergies. If you don't know, that involves about 20 needle pricks. Yep, it was fun for all of us. Come to find out Guy's very allergic to oranges (which he eats tons of), carrots (which he eats often), and sesame (which I rarely give him since I didn't know whether or not he was allergic). So, that's most likely a part of the stomach issues he's been having over the past month.
After our appointment with the allergist, of course we cut out the above foods from his diet, but he still wasn't recovering like we'd like. So we took him to a gastro-enterologist yesterday, who set up an emergency room appointment with us to get blood work and an ultrasound done on him. Let's just say that Guy has a keen sense of personal space. He was drastically less than thrilled as four of us held him down for these tests and examinations. Oh, yes. The emergency room sounded like there was a true emergency going on. My boy can scream. Quite literally, every doctor and nurse that was working with him exclaimed, "Oh God!" I'm so glad I can chuckle about this.
Long story made short, the ultrasound came back normal. Blood tests showed an elevated white blood cell count, so we are doing a few more tests to see if he's got a virus (another likely part of his stomach issues). In the meantime, we are putting him on Flagyl for three days just in case he has a parasite in his intestines. This medicine is infamous for making the user feel miserable, so we're in for a lot more fun this weekend. If none of this helps and we don't see any major changes in him, we'll have to do an endoscopy. No thanks. I'd just like to say that I was very pleased with the doctor and hospital staff yesterday. They were thorough, competent and very helpful. Way to go Jordan!
Okay, on to happier news...we're having another baby boy! Yesterday after all the excitement in the emergency room, Jonathan and I went to my OB and got to see baby #2, who is just darling if I do say so myself. I was pretty surprised to hear him say that we were having a boy, but pleasantly so. This pregnancy has been so different from my one with Guy that I'd convinced myself it was a girl. But we are really thrilled that Guy will have a brother just two years younger that him. Plus, since this next one is scheduled to arrive five days after Guy's second birthday, we'll have loads of season-appropriate clothing. Now we just have to figure out what to name this little fellow! Any suggestions?
Here's Guy modeling his pin-pricks from the allergy test. The blue marks are from a marker. He's turned into my skinny boy. Guy's pants are falling off of him these days. I've started adding olive oil to everything he eats and we've put him back on formula to try to fatten him up. Hopefully we can get him good and chubby again soon!
