As some of you may or may not know, my niece Trinity has been pretty sick since Thanksgiving. She's been to several doctors (see earlier posts) and they couldn't find out what was wrong with her. Well, she finally went to a pediatrician who was excellent. The doctor right away made her an appointment with a GI specialist in Columbia, but the appointment wasn't until the end of April. Sheila got a call yesterday saying they had a cancellation and could they be in Columbia the next day (today). So, they left this morning for Columbia for her appointment at 1:00 p.m.
Ron called me just a minute ago and they really liked this guy as well. He pretty much told them what her symptoms were without even asking them. Ron was amazed. He thinks she has a mixture of two things... 1 is irritable bowel syndrome and the other is functional dyspepsia (see http://www.medicinenet.com/dyspepsia/article.htm for more information).
Here is what we know about this "functional disease". She will be on a VERY strict diet. She can't drink anything but mainly water. She can't eat some of the following: ketchup, barbecue sauce, tomatoes, pizza, fried foods, peanut butter, etc, etc. He has a whole page of things she can't eat and so I told him he needs to get a list to us all so when we have her we won't screw up.
Anyway, he wants them to try this diet for a week and see if it helps her at all. He says 20% of American's have it but most don't diagnose it. But because she is a girl and is little she will probably have to live with it for the rest of her life. And will have to take pain medicine to help with the pain that it causes. She is also going to have to continue to take her Laxative until that gets better as well. He wants them to come back sometime next week and see how things are going.
That is all I know for now. I'm going to try to read up on it more and get some more info from Ron and Sheila so I can better understand it. It stinks for Trinnie because, as she put it, the doctor took away all the good food. But at least it is nothing more serious. I could've been a lot worse.
I'll keep you updated as I know more. Thanks for your prayers! I'm leaving work to go get her Bubby and Sissy from school. Love you all!
That is such a relief, hopefully it will continue to get better, sucks about all the good food but if it makes her feel better that's all taht matters...by the way like the background, I had it for a few days...:)
ReplyDeleteBless her little heart! I'm so glad they finally know something, though.
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