Sunday, October 25, 2015

Still healing

James had his eye surgery and everything went good. His eye is a little bit straighter! He is healing nicely and his doctor is very happy with how it looks. He also had a test done to see if his cortisol levels were ok and it turns out he has adrenal insufficiency so was put on medication. For those that don't know what that is, your adrenals are connected to your kidneys and they send cortisol to your pituitary glands when your sick or stressed to help your body but his isn't doing that. It's a lot more serious than I thought. His doctor told us he could go into shock if he doesn't take his medicine. He will be getting all his teeth fixed in a couple weeks. We also heard back from his oncology team and they got his scans from AZ and the "thickening" they thought that was abnormal isn't. It's been there for a while and hasn't grown or anything. So now as long as his oncologist is ok with it they want to put him on growth hormones. So we will see. He's still loving school and started PT again. He misses home(Arizona) a lot. We are going to try and visit soon but we will see.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Bad teeth

James got his glasses last week and he looks so cute. It's funny to see him now without glasses. He has his eye surgery next week. We saw his ophthalmologist and he said James' eye sight is improving but it will take some time for the right eye to adjust. We went and saw a dentist for James because he said his tooth hurt. Well he had a cleaning and check up yesterday. He has very bad teeth. He will have to have caps on all his teeth except the top and bottom front four. He will end up having to go the hospital and put under anesthesia to get all the work done. I feel like every time we get one thing figured out another thing turns up. We got the results from his stimulation test. James has a hormone deficiency and needs to be on growth hormones. The catch is the MRI he just had showed thickening and we don't know yet if that is normal or not so he can't take it. If he has cancer cells the growth hormones could possibly make them grow faster so we have to make absolutely sure he has none. Other than that he is doing well in school and loves playing at home. Hopefully his surgery goes well on Monday and his eye gets straightened out a bit.