Testing Testing, yet again...

So after our our lovely trip to the E.R. for Kaitlyn the other night and a subsequent visit to her primary doc, it was back to see the G.I. doc again today. He decided to send us for another x-ray of Kate's belly seeing as how they neglected to do one at the E.R. despite our request for one... we'll hopefully have the results of that tomorrow. He also ordered another round of tests.... stool samples, a endoscopy and a colonoscopy. Those will be done next week, so hopefully that will give us some much needed answers as to what is going on with all her G.I. issues. He wants to make sure that it isn't another underlying problem on top of CF (such as IBS, Crohn's disease, etc). Of course he says it could just be because she wasn't treated for so long her GI tract could have permanent damage from the CF, but hopefully that is not the case.... hopefully we'll get positive news from all these tests, because poor Kaitlyn has been having a pretty rough time lately.

She is also still sick with the upper respiratory stuff, although I can't tell if she's getting better yet, she is definitely not worse. We go back to the pulmonary doc on Friday, so maybe some good news there.... The GI doc actually asked if we were going to put her back in the hospital for another "tune up" which made me cringe as she just had her first one ever only 6 short months ago, but hopefully it won't come to that. She is pretty nervous about all the testing, and none too pleased about the "clean out" process required for the tests, but I think she is MOST upset about not being able to do karate until at least next week. Please keep her in your prayers this week and next as we try to figure out what all is going on with her right now. She's my little WARRIOR, and she's handeling this so well, but I just wish she could catch a break and feel better for more than a few weeks at a time.... One thing for sure though.... she always has a smile on her face :)

p.s. some good news today... Kaitlyn gained back 2 lbs that she had lost!!! YAY!!!