July 7, 2011

The Dr. came in pretty early.  He asked several questions concerning Keelie, but the one question he honed in on was Keelie's development.  This Dr. was a developmental specialist and he was concerned that Keelie's vocabulary bank was so low.  Thank you God for sending this Dr. to Keelie's room to take care of her.  I had an appt. with a neurologist August 8th with Lebonheur.  Dr. Palmer said to keep this appt. to make sure of things going on with Keelie.  The Lebonheur Dr.'s work in teams.  They have residents, students, fellows, etc.  The team working with Keelie consisted of 7.  Which we were very excited about.  So now to Keelie.  Dr. Palmer wanted to come back and do a more thorough evaluation on her.  He wanted to eliminate some disorders.  Autism being one.  Once he talked with her he said," no doubt, she does not have autism. "  Thank goodness.  It had crossed my mind but I didn't really feel she had it.  All the Dr.'s came in and they all said she had gasteroenteritis.  They did bloodwork every morning.  And the Dr's said her labs look perfect.  They were diagnosing her with viral gasteroenteritis and it just needed to work its course.  Josh and I didn't believe it but we had to go with it.  We didn't have anything else to go on. I just didn't understand how Keelie could throw up in the morning and have a normal bowel movement in the evening and it be a stomach virus.  It just didn't make sense.  Keelie's appetite wasn't so good.  She would drink some sprite and juice but other than that she didn't really won't anything.  So now we just wait and let her heal.  She did have some dehydration but it wasn't severe.