Paediatrician Review

Both boys had their reviews with the paediatrician on Wednesday after school.

Angus went first as he is the easier of the two boys to deal with (less complications that is). He was thrilled that he had grown a further two centimetres, he is now 146 cm tall (only 20 centimetres shorter than me) I have no idea how tall that is in feet and inches, we tried to convert it quickly when we were talking to my Dad on the phone. He only knows the old scale not metric when it comes to height. Anyway Angus is fine, doing extremely well in fact and doesn't need to go back for a review until the middle of next year.

Brodie was a trickier one to deal with. He has so many medical things that it's sometimes hard to know where to start. He too was thrilled to know that he has grown taller since his last visit in August. He is now 170 cm tall (about 5' 7") but he is also 5 kilos heavier too. Not good considering he has high blood pressure. He's now been given another lot of medication to take, Catapres (mydr.com), which should help his impulsiveness and also help lower his blood pressure. He started taking half a tablet last night. The bonus with this medication is that it might make him sleepy but since he is taking it at night that should be fine. It wont hurt him to go to bed early now and then.

He also needs to have a whole range of tests done. Should be interesting considering he needs to do 2 x 24 hour urine collections and some blood tests. He hates needles and becomes really stressed when he needs that done. The paediatrician also mentioned that he might need to have an ultrasound done of his renal artery or something like that. I can't remember it all but that's not surprising though as Brodie was bouncing off the walls while we were there and so impulsive and interrupting us quite a lot. I'm not sure when we can do this 24 hour urine collection .. hopefully on his day off when the teachers will be writing their school reports. The kids aren't required at school that day, that's on December 10th. We need to go back in early January for the results.