This morning was Casey J’s follow up with the rheumatologist in Austin. After dropping Zach off at school and a quick stop at the shop we headed north bound to the Dell Children’s Hospital Specially Pediatrics. Wow, that’s a mouthful. We did finally find out that they had located his last round of blood work and while it was still elevated, not near as much as the previous one and Dr. Carrasco said it was within the limit. He handed us a stack of paper work with all the lab results and went over them with us one by one (sort of). All the markers for any arthritis work were well within their limits, the LDH which was quite high on the first draw in July is a test that measures a certain chemical given off by muscles when there is swelling in them. We have connected the time when he was limping and complaining quite a bit to the exact same time he had that blood work done. The last set he had done the limping was almost gone and the LDH had come down.

All his other tests for white blood cells, etc were normal. He did mention that some of his iron levels were low so he either needed to eat a lot more red meat of take a vitamin with D and Iron in it, being as picky as he is I will be finding the little guy some yummy vitamins. The MRI confirms the Meyers Dysplasia and the reason they want to watch it is to be sure it doesn’t develop into Legg-Calve-Perthes which is the much more serious hip disease. The boys have their four and five year check-ups Monday morning and Casey John will be done with doctors appointments for awhile! Yeah! I have a folder full of all his paper work to hang until such a time we don’t need it anymore. We will just keep hoping he gets strong and outgrows it all!