It's been a little while, but in all fairness it has been a busy time around the Bryant house. (Thank goodness for our church hometeam! couldn't have made it through these last few weeks without them!) So here we go.. get ready for the ride.... a few weeks ago colds, stomach flu, fun times lemme tell ya. Food poisoning for me... oh joy. Then Tyler has to see a pediatric gastroenterologist... has a week of suppositories (please pray that we don't have to do that again!) followed by colonoscopy. 4 Days of "clean-out" with the last day being a clear-liquid diet. At first she was excited, since we told her she could have as many popsicles as she wanted.... but the novelty of that soon wore off. Feb. 26th Tyler has colonoscopy. Her sigmoid colon was very inflamed (but the rest of the large intestine looks normal, whew), so they took a biopsy of the tissue. Good news, they were able to see her entire large intestine, there were no polyps and they did not think she had Crohns Disease. She did so good, what a little trooper. The results came back from the biopsy showing a significant amount of eosinophil
. The GI doctor thinks Tyler has food allergies, so it's off to the allergist. Last week we see the allergist, does the scratch test (which she did SO great... it also helped that she had a super nurse, Sally, who she really liked!), shows that she's allergic to mold and cats, but no food and because that test is only about 85% accurate, he wants to do patch testing. Also had her tested for Celiac disease, which praise God, came back negative. That brings us to this week.... or hell week as I am referring to it. :-) We have had an appointment everyday! It started on Monday going to the allergist. They gave us a long list of foods that we could bring in, so after review the list, we brought in 5 (we chose things that we eat often), in addition to the standard wheat, dairy, nut, soy and egg. Poor girl, almost her entire back is covered with tape and lots of little test "dots". Those have to stay on for 48 hours. We will go back Wednesday, Thursday and Monday for that. Today Tyler's pediatric GI wanted to see the twins to discuss the possibility of them having food allergies.... fun... not. So after a joyfuul rectal exam (Sorry TMI) it's on to the allergist for them as well. At least we don't have any scheduled colonoscopies for them.... yet. (Praying that does not come to fruition). Tyler had her first dental appointment today... (had a cavity in a molar) She did AWESOME!!! Not a tear was shed!! She was so proud... as was mama!! Next week I have a dental appointment, my follow-up with the endocrinologist and a scheduled visit the breast specialist, as the lump is back. As if that wasn't enough, in the middle of all this, we hit the one year anniversery of my FIL's passing, a very dear friend and I have decided to be leaders for a Women's Hometeam with our church,my uncle had a angioplasty (which was successful, Thank God), my grandma got good news from her breast specialist (Thank God),the 100th day data review was going on for school (as I am still working for the charter school in Tucson), Tyler started swimming lessons and tap and ballet, the babies started walking (see below) Thank goodness Tyler has spring breask for preschool, otherwise I would be a total wreck! And that's not even all of it... SO... if I haven't given ya a call or written an email, it's certainly not because I haven't thought of you... it's just been insane these last few weeks.... I am SO LOOKING FORWARD to the end of March!!! Hopefully all our appointments will be done and things will be back to family of five normal. :-) Please keep us in your prayers that all will go well the next two weeks. :-) We certainly have so much to be thankful for as the Lord has truely blessed us.
And how could I possibly forget to mention that BOTH Lexie & Grace are now walking!! It was so crazy how quickly they took off... They're so cute... of course I could be a little bias, but hey. :-) In other twin news, Lexie is cutting 2 molars... and when they're through, she will have 9 teeth. Grace has 3 teeth now (she cut a molar a few weeks ago) and is currently cutting 4!!! All top, which will bring her to 7 teeth. :-)
Otherwise all is good. The girls are growing, Tony is busy with work and he and I are great! (had a wonderful date night last week, gunna have another this weekend) Gus is good... gettin' old, Brenda & Gary (Tyler's goldfish from Walmart that we bought because they were cheap {in case we had to "replace" them} 3 years ago) are still alive and kicking and Matasha (as Tyler so lovingly calls her) the tarantula is doing just fine. :-) Oh and we got a home gym... Tony LOVES it and I like it too... no more excuses... there's no traveling involved... just gotta walk to the garage.... Hope all is well with you and yours!!
Sending our love!!
T,J & the girls
