Still.

I got the results of KayTar's LFT recheck labs yesterday. THIS time her ALT is mildly elevated and her AST was at the high end of normal. LAST time her AST was mildly elevated and her ALT was within normal limits. Aye yi yi. More abnormal and nonspecific results!

However, I was doing some reading and it sounds like this is a typical laboratory finding in kids with GSD 0, which genetics is currently working her up for. Interesting. Of course, none of her doctors put this together.

Endocrine called Gastro (quick aside for you non-medical folks: gastroenterology also handles hepatology, hepatology focuses on the liver, LFTs are liver function tests) about the results, since they were still abnormal. Gastro wants them checked a THIRD time and will order further testing if they are still abnormal. Anyone want to place a bet?

Today I called Genetics to let them know about the test results, in case they need to tack some other test on to the retest panel. All of the clinics run off the same system, but unless someone CC's them specifically, they won't look at any labs but the ones they ordered until her next appointment, so if I want labs to be condensed into as few sticks as possible, I should probably let them know.

I'm feeling...something...today. I'm in a little bit of a funk. It's not because KayTar's labs were abnormal, I mean seriously, they are ALWAYS abnormal. I'm not worried. Maybe it is because I still CARE that her labs are abnormal, that there is still a little part of me that is always hopeful that this will be the set of off-kilter labs that breaks the case, that someone will pay enough attention to connect the dots and figure this out. Doctors look at constellations of symptoms to make a diagnosis and by this point, we're looking at an effing GALAXY full of them. Four years worth of them. This Sunday is my birthday and all I want, still, after all of this time, is for someone to look up into that metaphorical sky and finally recognize what it is that they are looking at.