Little Miss Kimberly...

Hey! Just wanted to give you a quick update. Kimberly woke up from her nap yesterday and was having the same problems she had Saturday morning where here hands and feet were purple and around her lips were blue. So, I took her back in to the doctor and THANKFULLY we actually got to see OUR doctor and not the on call doctor. Dr. Geurkink (our pediatrician) said that it is possible that what the on-call doctor told us on Sunday is true, that it really might be just intermittent acrocyanosis. But, she would like to run some tests to make sure that there really is nothing else going on. So, we are going to have an echocardiogram (I think thats it) done to check her heart, a chest x-ray to check her lungs and an upper GI to check and see if reflux is causing the problems. We have the tests scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) so hopefully we will know something by the weekend, but it could take several days before the doctor gets the results. In the mean time they are going to give us an Apnea Monitor for while she is sleeping. This is just a monitor to alert us if her breathing changes any so that we can sleep knowing that we will be woken up if she starts having trouble. This is not a breathing machine, it doesn't help her in anyway, just alerts us if she's having a problem.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!! I know I am definitely glad that our doctor is going to look into this and rule everything else out. I wasn't very comfortable with the on-call doctor that we saw on Sunday, he seemed very non-chalant and just kept telling me not to worry. But, I can't help but worry when my child is turning blue and purple!!! So, hopefully within the next few days we will be able to figure out what is going on and it will be a minor problem.

On a positive note, we got the results of Kimberly's follow-up ultrasound on her kidneys. (Remember a couple of months she had to have the ultrasound and they found excessive fluid). Well the ultrasound showed that all the excessive fluid was gone, so it must have just been some left over from development, so we can stop her medicine for that and shouldn't have any more issues there!

Have a great day! :)