Friday, April 20, 2012

The Scale Lies...Or It's Broken

Today we went back to the doctor's office (that's two stays in the hospital and 4 visits to the doctor's office in his three weeks of life so far) for a follow up appointment after Lee's discharge from the hospital. Everyone just wants to make sure that he's getting better as he's supposed to. He's developed diarrhea from all the antibiotics and they just wanted to make sure that situation is resolving as it should be.

Part of the check up was measuring his weight. Turns out he's lost weight since his first weight check in the hospital and he's exactly the same weight he was the last time we checked it at the doctor's office.

The doctor said he's not "overly concerned" with it because he has been sick and needs to build up his strength for feeding still, but that he should have gained a bit more by now. Personally I think the scale lies. Either way we have to go back to the doctor's office again to check his weight in a couple of weeks.

2 comments:

Dan's mom said...

Since we only know what Lee didn't have, if there is anything unusual or "off" (coughing, wheezing,????)don't wait to call his doctor - even though he has been there so often.
Miss you all already.

dad said...

Good job Dan and Maggie. I am so happy that Grandma was there to handle some of the stress. I just have live long enough now to get all these kids in First Tee.