Brief Update

 Today we went to see the Nephrologist who is monitoring my son's blood pressure.  And I have to say, the appointment went very well, especially since I was expecting it to go, well, not so well.

Over the past month or so (two months? I'm not exactly sure...) my baby has been sleeping through the night, and thus, sleeping through one dose of one of his medications.  We continued to monitor his blood pressure and it was staying consistently where it needed to be, so we decided (and his nurse agreed) that there was no need to do any differently.

In the past two weeks, however, it has been slightly higher.  Not much, and certainly not where it was when he was still in the hospital, but higher than it has been, so I was starting to get concerned, and thinking that we were going in the wrong direction.  I mean, if he is ever going to get off his meds, we definitely don't want his blood pressure getting worse, right?

So, knowing we had an appointment today, I decided the doctor would not be happy, and that we would have to adjust his medicine doses so that he could get it all during the day, without having to wake everyone and fight for an hour at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Well, I arrived at the doctor and explained our dilemma (at which point he wholeheartedly agreed that no one would be getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning, which was a huge sigh of relief), and then explained where his blood pressure is these days.  He looked at the numbers and said, "Oh, these aren't bad.  Not ideal, but pretty close to where it needs to be."  I was shocked!  He then went on to explain that the more he grows, the more the numbers will go up in proportion to his size.  So proportionally, the numbers looked pretty good!  Um, DUH!  I had not even considered the fact that my son is, indeed, a growing boy, and that we would not want or expect his blood pressure to look like that of an infants forever!  He did, however, adjust his dosing slightly so that we only have to give medicine twice a day (instead of what was supposed to be four times a day), and said that if his numbers are still like this when we come back next month, he will start to get him off some of the medications!  Yay!

So, overall, it was a good report, with (hopefully) good things to look forward to in the near future.  Thank you for your continued prayers as he continues to grow and needs his medicine less and less.

(Whew!  I don't think that was so brief after all.  Sorry!)