We've had a torrid time the last week or so. Harrison is still losing weight (he's only 11.5 kgs), he has a huge distended tummy and is just skin and bones. He's still vomiting every day or two. Getting a blood sample was a drama - I took him 4 times to get the sample taken, twice we were turned away because the nurses weren't confident to get a vein, on one visit they spent 2 hours pricking and prodding him tried 8 times in both hands and arms, and still couldn't get any blood to flow. Finally I took him to the lab at the children's hospital and they got the sample first try. Nothing showed up from those tests, and nothing abnormal in his ultrasound, so at least a few things have been eliminated. The search goes on for a reason for this weight loss.
He had a wonderful time with his friend Colin at the zoo on Saturday and seemed keen to eat, so we thought he might be getting better. But he was sick again on Sunday night, so obviously that was wishful thinking on our part. Simon takes him to the paediatrician tomorrow.
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Harrison weighed 11 kilos at his first birthday - this is 17 months later. Those blood tests weren't for coeliac disease, but at least we are finally being taken seriously and our wonderful new doctor is desperate to find out what's wrong with him.
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