sweat test

this past tuesday, the dude went in for his second test that the pulmonologist had recommended.  he headed in to get a sweat test done that would check for cystic fibrosis.  the doctor didn't lead us to believe that he had CF, but she wanted to get the test done to rule things out.  

grady took the day off to take graham in and said he did great during the whole thing.  the dude doesn't normally have a problem sweating....on his head at least!  but i guess sweating on his arm is a different story.  because he didn't sweat enough at first, grady said they had to put his jacket on and make him run around a bit so they could get enough to sample!  i wish i could have seen that!  

it was a long two days waiting for the results.  i thought someone would have called me either from the testing office or the pulmonologist's office.  that would be too easy!  i couldn't wait any longer, so i called the pulmonologist to see if they had gotten the results.  of course i get voicemail!

about an hour later i get a call from the pulmonologist's office.  everything came back NORMAL!  YEAH!!!!!  i was SO relieved!  i know they say not to google medical information online, but i couldn't help it.  the one statistic i saw about life expectancy of a child with CF about broke my heart.  but now that i know the dude doesn't have that, i vow to NEVER look at a CF website ever again.  

instead, i'm even more bound and determined to figure out what's causing the dude's breathing issues.  for now we're just continuing pulmacort nebs twice a day and singulair once a day until we go back to the pulmonologist for a check-up in february.