October 24th - Doctor Visit

So, on Thursday, we went back to Boise for our 4th time in just over a week. :)  Kayla had an appointment with Dr. Hansen.  And that was it!  No port access, since she is port-less now, and nothing else.  Nice!  We went in and she got her usual blood pressure and temperature checked, and then height and weight checked.  And just for the record. . . she will still not stand on the scale alone.  So, I (at 38weeks) am holding all 47 pounds of her to get weighed and then getting weighed myself. . . still.  Silly girl.  She also has her own little array of pen marks on the wall because she won't get measured with the handy height measure thing.  She has grown a lot in the past year and a half.  I think when we started all this she was about 102 cm and now she was over 110 cm.

Since we wouldn't be back for awhile and Kayla's birthday was the next week, we made some chocolate cupcakes to give to everyone.  We had fun passing them out and chatting a little with the nurses while we waited to see Dr. Hansen.  Miss Kim even brought Kayla in a birthday present.  

We had a nice visit with Dr. Hansen.  Kayla's checkup was great and her counts were great (I should have asked him what they were, but I was just too tired).  He said that we don't need to come in again until after her next MRI in three months.  Whoa!  That's like forever!  He also said that they won't need to take any blood draws (which would be through her arm now).  Nice!  He said that the blood won't tell us anything now, just the MRI's, so that is what he will be keeping an eye on.  And that in another three months she should be pretty much back to a normal immune system.  Yay!

After our visit, we finished passing out cupcakes and saying good-bye for 3 months to everyone and headed home.  Oh, one last thing.  I called the surgeon's office to schedule Kayla's follow up visit for her port removal surgery.  The lady I talked to told me that they never do follow up visits for those and that we didn't need to come in.  Hip hip hooray!  Now all I have to go to are my doctor visits and wait for this baby to arrive!