August 22 - Endocrinology

August 22 - Endocrinology

Today was Levi's endocrinology appointment. Sometimes with everything going on with his USS it's easy to forget that his thyroid doesn't work either. The morning meds he takes are such routine at this point I don't even think about them, just flavor them and hand them over. But every 6 months we make the drive to Manchester to meet with Dr. Cl to discuss how Levi is doing and check his counts. 

The drive down was awful. Horrible rain storms and could barely see, but we had left plenty of time as I wasn't sure how long the drive would be from some days house, so we still arrived early. We got all checked in and headed upstairs. 

Levi was a crazy man in the waiting room, but I got him to be good enough and was able to fill out his paperwork. For the last few Jay hasn't been coming as it's several hours in the car for a 20 minute appointment. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for us both to miss work for that. 

Levi got called and we headed in. He did a pretty good job doing height and weight and then we headed into the room. Levi climbed up on the table and played with the toys. 

 After a few minutes Dr. Cl came in and we discussed the last 6 months with him. Levi's TSH and Free T4 are elevated again, but since they are both elevated at the same rate and Levi is not showing any clinical signs of hypothyroidism we made the call not to change his meds at this point. We will do blood work again in November and possibly do an increase then.

Then we were outta there. Levi got 2 stickers on the way out and was super excited to share saying that one was his and one was mine. It was really cute!

We will be back in 6 months, and for now we are status quo! It's hard to believe that 4 years ago his thyroid is what kept me up at night and had me scared. Now it's just a little blip on the radar. It really is true that everyones 10 is different. When Levi was born his thyroid was our 10, now USS takes that by far and his thyroid falls to a 3 or 4 on the stress level. Just goes to show how much life changes.