We did that after we got home anyway. It was a Thursday night this year and the night before her endoscopy to try to figure out what's been causing all of the horrible stomach and esophagus problems since August. She seemed to have gotten over it with the help of Prevacid in September after having refused food for awhile due to a feeling like she was choking on her food. She had gotten down to a liquid diet only and dropped from 61 to 55lbs in just weeks. Prevacid got her back to eating again and them a few weeks after the Prevacid was done it all started up again. So she'd gotten back to sharing our queen sizes bed in Oct and was scheduled for an endoscopy the morning after Halloween. And since this meant no food or drink after midnight, she was in candy heaven till we finally made her go to sleep around 10:30.
Her reward after the endoscopy was lunch at the Rainforest Cafe in the galleria, right next to the ice skating rink...which led to her first time on skates! The child loved it! She held on to us mostly (and mostly she prefers steady Paul on this one since I was just learning too!) and fell a few times but wanted more!
That evening when I was reading the post-procedure paperwork there was express caution about letting her do any kind of physical activity that day that would challenge her balance due to the anesthesia effects. Well ice skating would have been the worst choice now wouldn't it? Haaaaa! She was fine!
Good thing there's a rink here by the house!
Her endoscopy was normal and so was her biopsies. I was conflicted bc I was sure they would find something given all her pain but no. I'm gratefully that whatever it is wasn't causing damage but felt like how could you fight something you couldn't even diagnose?! He GI specialist is awesome though and doubled her Prevacid dose. Also gave her an antihistamine for stomach cramps in case it's a food allergy (we only take it occasionally). I've put her on a probiotic and this mix seems to have made a difference! She's back in her own bed (miss her but we appreciate a good night's rest without a tiny hand in our face or kicks to our kidneys).
Look at this kid. She's so big. Love her so much.
