We are headed back to MN for some more tests. I am hoping the hormorne test will show that the low levels are very low in some areas to qualify for hormorne treatment.
I hear the boys come home everyday and talk about their height and how they get picked on and how even silly comments can hurt. Then I have one that talks about not being chosen with his peers but still he enjoys going to school because he has some friends that he likes to hang with. they are not in his class but they are kids that like to be with Brandon. It is sad because some of them are so much taller than him and he is a year or two older. I can see where that gets on his mind and he wonders and then he goes to gymnastic and he isn't that short or goes to church where the kids have known him for years and just let him be.
THe other child has his ups and downs with his height, wants to be taller and then there are days he is ok with it. Just like most people there are days he is like "who cares" and then days "hey that hurts" so not like getting taller will help but growing with his peers. I think he has some more growth issues due to his overall development. He has alsways be short and stocky however, as the doctor pointed out he never really had a huge growth spurt like his brother at some point of coming to us. He got feed and he grew but again his belly and head took the nutrients and his bones did not. He wonders if his beginnings in life made him train his body to feed the important parts to grow like his brain and his organs and NOT to his bones. An amazing thing that they have followed up on in many foreign adopeted and early children with failures to thrive. So we shall see.
Insurance will be fun with this because of the way they have to measure everything and the sad part was the day we were up there for the appointment, Josh was over the 5%in height by .001 cm. The insureance has to have everything in a black and white status to stamp a yes or stamp a no. He did note that if we were to come in the following week when he would measure the same and be a week older than he would fall into the under 5%. So silly and yet insurance has to have a check in area and yet ther is more to it than jsut a number.
I want to write a book.
I hear the boys come home everyday and talk about their height and how they get picked on and how even silly comments can hurt. Then I have one that talks about not being chosen with his peers but still he enjoys going to school because he has some friends that he likes to hang with. they are not in his class but they are kids that like to be with Brandon. It is sad because some of them are so much taller than him and he is a year or two older. I can see where that gets on his mind and he wonders and then he goes to gymnastic and he isn't that short or goes to church where the kids have known him for years and just let him be.
THe other child has his ups and downs with his height, wants to be taller and then there are days he is ok with it. Just like most people there are days he is like "who cares" and then days "hey that hurts" so not like getting taller will help but growing with his peers. I think he has some more growth issues due to his overall development. He has alsways be short and stocky however, as the doctor pointed out he never really had a huge growth spurt like his brother at some point of coming to us. He got feed and he grew but again his belly and head took the nutrients and his bones did not. He wonders if his beginnings in life made him train his body to feed the important parts to grow like his brain and his organs and NOT to his bones. An amazing thing that they have followed up on in many foreign adopeted and early children with failures to thrive. So we shall see.
Insurance will be fun with this because of the way they have to measure everything and the sad part was the day we were up there for the appointment, Josh was over the 5%in height by .001 cm. The insureance has to have everything in a black and white status to stamp a yes or stamp a no. He did note that if we were to come in the following week when he would measure the same and be a week older than he would fall into the under 5%. So silly and yet insurance has to have a check in area and yet ther is more to it than jsut a number.
I want to write a book.
