Well, Allison and I woke up EARLY this morning to make her 8:15 appointment at UW Children's Hospital in Madison. She was totally awesome and did not complain about the lack of food and water for her. (nothing after midnight)
They retook the bone age scan x-ray first and then put us back in a room with a bed and a big TV and DVD player. Allison took the pills that were supposed to kick in her growth system and then insisted she was not at all tired. She did the first blood-draw after an hour, which she was very nervous about but then didn't even notice because they put on this numbing cream. Poor girl inherited deep and difficult-to-find veins from the Nolan side of the family (Grandma Mary and then me). The nurse opted to have her blood drawn in the lab because she couldn't feel a vein - which is impressive given Allison's body fat % of like.... nothing.
Anyway, after insisting she was NOT TIRED, she fell asleep during the half hour before the next blood draw. Apparently the medicine makes you tired and your blood pressure drop - so then it was a little while before she got back to a "dischargable" blood pressure. I'm not sure what that number was, but we waited three tests rather than two.
She then slept while I drove to the bakery. Slept while I went into the bakery (seriously.... they had cupcakes!). Slept on the drive home. And she's sleeping now upstairs in my bed. Bets on whether or not she sleeps tonight??
They have to send the samples to an outside lab, so we won't get the results for a few weeks. They get them in one week, but then we'll get a letter (hopefully as indecipherable as the last!!) about a week after that. The nurse did say we could call her if we needed someone to interpret it for us. So, that was nice.
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