Milestones over the past 4 days...

Ever since Max pulled his catheter out this past Saturday it seems to be that he is on a learning kick. He has learned to do sign "want", "more" and "all done." He started combing his hair tonight after I gave him a bath, brushed his hair and handed him the comb. He learned where his head is on Tuesday in the course of a few minutes. He got himself into a sit from laying on the floor today with Mr. Dan (physical therapist). Now of course he wouldn't do it for Tim and I this evening, buy I am still considering it a milestone partially accomplished.

Oh yeah! Did I mention that he pointed out most of the animals that we asked him to identify on his flash cards? No? Well he did. That's right ladies and gentlemen, my 16 month old ESRD little boy knew his animals!!! That was a proud mama moment!!!

Max has also started saying "mama" and "nana" again. He had these at one point but dropped them. Well I am very happy to say that they're back.

Update on Max's Medical Status:

Max is doing FANTASTIC!!! We had our first PD clinic appointment on Wednesday and all went great. His labs looked wonderful (after not having hemo for 5 days). This means that he is doing very well on only doing PD. They got a length on him and he grew 1.8 centimeters in the course of one month. His head also grew a great amount, so much that the doctors wanted the dietitian to recheck it. We do have to add another shot to our medication list. We have to give him his red blood cell producing medication in a shot form every Friday on top of his growth hormone injection that we do every night :o( Poor guy. He doesn't even flinch with the growth hormone, so hopefully we get the same result with this new one.

We have our pulmonary follow up (sleep study results) on Monday and a urology appointment on Wednesday (we meet our new doctor since Dr. Sheldon is still out). We also have to go back to the PD clinic for more labs and of course to see our second family (we miss you guys already). I'll post next week on how everything goes.

That's all folks. I have absolutely no bad news to report today :o)

Enjoy your gorgeous weekend!!!