Looking up......

Today we had the two younger boys appointment with the pulmonary specialist. At first he seemed a little gruff and I was worried that he would get impatient with us trying to explain everything but as the morning progressed, he had more of his coffee and he became like a little teddy bear by the time we left. I have to remind myself that the attitudes of the Army are really different from the Air Force and that even goes with the doctors too.

He throughly looked through the boys medical records, and then examined them himself. He said their pulmonary function tests looked good and said if it was up to him and if we were staying here for a couple years he would work at seeing if he could wean the boys off of some of the meds they are on. He had them also have an X-ray done. There was a little spot on Kai's x-ray on the left side but he said that was normal for a kid with his symptoms. It shows a little thickening in the bronchia, but nothing abnormal and it could disappear in a few years.

The report he wrote for the appeal was that he was positive that the boys were well maintained and there should be no problem with them being over there. He also said that they could be seen by a regular pediatric doctor and just have their regular 6 month check ups to make sure the meds are doing fine.

We are hoping that the docs in Germany will change their minds and say that they can come over after all and we're hoping that they will do it before the weeks out, but they have 7 days to make up their mind so we won't hold our breath. I guess once we know then we will have a good idea when we can leave this place. It's just waiting to see which way we will be going, East or West?