One less thing to worry about...

I haven't written about it sooner, because I felt like I needed to have all my facts in order before I wrote about it, but we had a major health concern pop up regarding Bingo. Last Wednesday I took him into the clinic after he discovered a lump on his chest that was very painful, which he had had for over a month and it wasn't going away or getting better. We saw a nurse practitioner who was unfamiliar to us, and she said that she thought the lump was hormonally related and should resolve itself with time. She was, however, very concerned by his concave chest, as well as how tall and skinny/scrawny he is, and she thought he showed the physical symptoms of Marfan Syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue. She wanted us to see a medical geneticist as soon as possible because of the risks of health complications that can occur with this disorder, and given my health insurance runs out on Thursday, we needed to make it happen fairly quickly. Fast forward to today: we saw the specialist at the University of Minnesota Pediatric Specialty Clinics, and she took a detailed history, and multiple measurements of his long bones especially. After crunching some numbers she came up with the news I was hoping to hear: his bones are all proportional to his height (in Marfan Syndrome they are unusually long), and given his vision is fine, she was reasonably sure he is just a tall skinny kid who happens to have a concave chest. She did suggest that we have an echocardiogram done to rule out the last symptom of Marfan's, that of heart difficulties, but given his other pre-requisites were within normal parameters, she felt there was no rush to get one, and we can wait to confer with the doctors at whatever new clinic we end up at in IL. I am sooooo relieved, you cannot even imagine! This worry and stress was unreal over the past week, and now I can focus on the rest of what I am trying to accomplish: packing, preparing for the wedding, and getting ready to move. Hallelujah!