Updates

Well not much has been happening in the Tallon house. Medical updates mainly.

Braxton went in the lab on Wednesday for a Lead blood test. No results yet on that. I also took a stool sample in on Wednesday for the Giardia infection. No news there either. I am thinking maybe today since it is a culture that they have to do. If it is negative we will have to get an order from the doctor to test for Celiac's disease. As far I as I can tell that is just a simple blood draw as well. I really don't want to do extensive testing with him if I don't have to.

We need prayers for my niece. She is 2 years old. She had a blood draw done a month ago to test for Cystic Fibrosis (her 1st cousin on the other side has CF). Her test came back with a Chromosone mutation but that is all they know. She is going on Tuesday for the sweat test to see if she is just a carrier or has the disease. How CF gets passed down is that a genetic mutation gets passed down from each parent. You have a 25% chance of having CF, a 50% chance CF carrier, and a 25% of not having the gene at all. Since she is positive it means that my brother is also a carrier which means sometime in the future I need to get my oldest two tested because I could be a carrier and you never know if Scott could be a carrier. Insurance won't cover for adults to be tested so it is like a crazy expensive test yet it is a normal lab fee to have the children tested. The results take a month to get back so it will be a waiting game. I am not going to do anything until we get my niece's results back. The prayer is that Josie is just a carrier and doesn't have the disease.

***UPDATE***
I called for lab results...the Giardia stool cultures can take a week for results. I should hear by Friday. Also the Lead results weren't back so hopefully at the end of the week.

Arianna has a 103 degree fever today with no other symptoms so please keep her in your thoughts that the fever breaks and nothing else is wrong with her.