We spend so much time at the Doctor

This is the latest post in the series of William, grace and Juliet's journey with hypophosphatasia.

Last week, no, a few weeks ago, we went up to Grand Rapids for the day.  The kids were seeing the endocrinologist and ophthalmologist. 

William gained enough weight that his injection dose increased! He is now on a higher weight curve.  Yay, William! The twins haven't changed enough to merit an increase.  Everything looks good, but they still had to stop in for bloodwork.

They try to be brave, but no one enjoys giving blood. = (  The wait was not long though, and they always give out toys and snacks and stickers to ease the pain.

After a quick lunch, at a shared table (thank you sweet mom who let us sit with you in the packed cafeteria!) it was time for the Ophthalmologist.   

William's weak eye has improved with his patch wearing, Juliet wears hers more often and didn't have much improvement at all. = / So, both will continue the patching for now.*

They had to have their eyes dilated.  This is how the nurses opted to do it?

On the way home, we stopped into the glasses store to fill their new prescriptions.  They were all sad that we didn't leave with new glasses.

I'm anticipating a message this week to go collect their new ones.  It will be nice to have a 'back up' pair for each of them, should the new ones get lost.

later days

*William lost his case, with his $20 patch in it, and we have looked high and low to find it. So, this round he has a much cheaper patch (that came in a multipack.) I figured that we'd find his case once the new ones arrived, but no such luck. = /  So, if anyone finds that they need a child size patch for glasses, let me know, we've got bunches.

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