Pediatric GI!

We are off to the Pediatric Gastroenterology (GI) today! Emily had seen one regularly as a baby mostly due to her failure to thrive & stools. He discharged her as a patient when she was about 2 years old. Here we are going back again still due to her digestion. Emily at 3 years old rarely has a solid stool. Normally it ranges from soft (like a infant) to diarrhea. She is always grabbing down there saying "oowwee". She is still unable to tolerate milk. She has grown in height & weight. At her last visit she was "following her own curve" for weight & in the 20% for height according to her Pediatrician. We have a friend whose daughter is one week older then Emily & has always been at the same height & weight as her. She just had her 3 year appointment & was up to the 25% for both height & weight. So I am hoping Emily is right there with her. The major difference between Emily & her friend is Emily has no meat on her. She has extremely scrawny arms & legs. She also has a distended belly. Which is normal at Cameron's age but Emily should have outgrown it by now. 

So here we are going to the GI. Not b recommendation of any other Doctors but by the fact that Emily never grew out of the reasons why she was going as a infancy/toddler but yet the GI dismissed her. We now have a new GI that Cameron sees & I love him! He briefly talked to me about Emily at one of Cameron's appointments & asked me to bring her in so that he could thoroughly look at her & run tests. The major test he is going to run is for Celicas Disease. Yep, been there done that but I also found out that it isn't accurate until the age of 3. So we are off to the Doctors this morning then probably to get her blood drawn. I am honestly not sure what I am hoping for. We have too many GI issues (Emily, Cameron, Hunter & Me) to just ignore it. In some ways I hope that the test comes back positive for Celiacs because an answer & a clear cut fix to hopefully all of our GI issues. On the other hand Celiacs is a very difficult & expensive diet. No wheat! Wheat is in everything! And I mean everything!! Our lives would change. Right now we will just have to wait & see.