Allergy update

This morning we took the two kids to Children's Hospital to get blood drawn to check on food allergies.  Carter's test was only to check his peanut allergy to see if his tolerance has increased, decreased or stayed the same.  Ava was to have a full allergy test ( just like Carter did when he was initially diagnosed with his peanut allergy) to check for all childhood food allergens.  Since Carter is allergic to peanuts, Ava has a slightly increased risk of also having a peanut allergy.  Thankfully Mike took the morning off so that I would have help.

Carter was not happy AT ALL.  It took the promise of a sucker, chocolate milk and cookies to even get him into the hospital.  He kept telling us "Carter not sick either."  Luckily it was easy to draw blood and although he screamed he was easily comforted (with a sucker of course) afterward.

But Ava was a totally different story.  Once again she didn't even flinch at the needles.  But they were totally unable to draw any blood.  After two different people poking at her, even sticking a needle in her arm for several minutes moving it all around to find a vein, still nothing.  Finally Mike just said, let's not worry about this.  Although she wasn't crying or fussing (or even looking at us funny) it surely couldn't have been pleasant.  We'll just wait as she grows up a bit and maybe try again.  So far she has never had anything with peanuts in it, but she has had items manufactured on a plant with peanuts.  We'll wait and see about her.

So that's our big update for now.  I can't wait to hear the results (for Carter's allergy test.)