CT scan

Yesterday, Isaac underwent a CT scan. We hope to hear back the results today from Dr. Nichols. So here's where we are at thusly:

Two weeks ago we drew 5mls of blood and sent it up to the children's hospital in seattle to dr och's lab. we have yet to hear the results of these tests. my understanding is they are counting his Tcells with certain proteins like CD3, CD4, etc.. there were a whole swath of them dr ochs wanted to look at.

Last wednesday we visited with a pediatric cranio-sacral chiropractor. i thought she seemed quite good. she moved his skull bones around and that was kinda trippy. i could see isaac's eye become more or less squished as she moved the bone that makesup the forehead. she would touch him here and there along his spine, hips, scalp and sometimes he'd end up shuddering for about a minute as tension released from him. isaac didn't seem to mind too much. she also did a couple of adjustments on his back which left him screaming. i hope that those were not adverse...

Last Friday we visited with paul miller an osteopath in lake oswego. we visited with him for 3 hours. the first hour i gave him a complete history. and the next two he gave isaac gentle pressures here and there, along his hips, back, ribcage, shoulders, neck, scalp...he said isaac's legs were different lengths (not really, but that his hips were out of whack giving the effect that one leg's longer than the other) and that perhaps this was related to his diaphram tightening (making him grunt) and this was a result of his lung distress. or perhaps his hips and diaphram strangeness brought on the lung disease... hard to say, it's a chicken and egg problem. anyway, his approach is real gentle and he wants to work on isaac for a few weeks to see if he has an effect. so we're going to. we're not going to resume seeing the chiropractor until, maybe, after the work miller does. doesn't make sense to be seeing two different folks who are doing similar work. plus i feel like miller's approach is gentler.

well, hopefully we'll hear some informative news from dr ochs and dr nichols this week.