A Little Sweat and Relaxation
Dr. Cason on Jul 16th 2008
Another busy day at Tripler Medical Center ruling out Cystic Fibrosis with a sweat test. Here we are as the electrodes are attached to Jake’s arm to stimulate his sweat glands. It worked. Look how much was collected! It was packaged off to the lab for the results, while we went off and explored O’ahu. [...]
Sweating it Out
Dr. Cason on Jul 16th 2008
It’s still early here and Jakey is pretending to be asleep- crouched in the crumpled white bed covers sucking his thumb. He reminds me of Brianna. She loves to linger and wake up slowly too. Gabby? Out of bed immediately, bright eyed and bushy tailed. I miss the girls. Off this am for a continental [...]
Day One of Evaluation- Allergy Skin Testing
Dr. Cason on Jul 15th 2008
Day Number One- 3 specialists-Allergy/Gastroenterology/Pulmonology 7 hours in the hospital-08:00-15:00 4 tantrums and 1 skin testing Take at look at the controls at the top row. The positive is histamine and the negative is saline The largest wheal is Egg (Bottom middle) The next is Milk (Top right) and the following…Peanut (Top right second one [...]
We Made it to Hawaii
Dr. Cason on Jul 14th 2008
We made it. My poor little guy was tuckered though. He spent a lot of time looking out the window. Only a little bit of time sleeping. And the rest of the time crying. Over anything. He nearly slept through dinner at a local drive in. But somehow he sensed the toys amongst him and [...]
Can Someone Help with Me with the Bags?
Dr. Cason on Jul 14th 2008
It’s 4:06 am. The house is unusually quiet. Coffee’s not even on. No worries- I’ll grab it at the airport. Time to go wake my youngest. Can you grab the bags?
Off to Hawaii
Dr. Cason on Jul 13th 2008
Everyone is a little sad. Our routine is about to be disrupted. As you may remember Jake has some allergy/asthma problems. So in search of answers Jake and I will be heading out in the wee hours of the morning to Hawaii. As luck would have it – just as we were granted the medivac [...]
