Polar Express party at preschool

Andrielle had a Polar Express Christmas party at preschool last week. She wore pajamas, and Santa even came!

Genetic Test

We just back from the doing the blood work for the genetic testing at the doctor's office. Poor Andrielle just does not like needles (but, really, can you blame her?). Her veins are also really hard to find. They finally found her vein on her left arm and just after they started collecting the blood they needed, her vein collapsed. So they had to use her right arm. Thankfully, they were able to get enough blood from that arm. They're sending in her blood samples and we should have the results back in 2-3 weeks (but it could be a little longer because of the holidays). Hopefully this is the last test we will have to have done for a while.

More testing

I've been in contact with Jeremy Schow, a man who works for Lineagen. Lineagen is the company that does genetic testing. I personally talked with my insurance company and they told me that they didn't cover genetic testing. Jeremy had a conference with them and filed a dispute over it and he won the dispute! They are going to cover the testing! Originally, we were only going to have to do a buccal cell test (the swab inside of the cheek to collect the skin cells), but in order for insurance to cover it, they want to do the blood work test instead and we also have to do a karyotype test (another blood test). I'm not exactly sure what the karyotype test will tell us, I know it has something to do with chromosomes. It looks like we'll be doing this blood draw tomorrow and hopefully it will go well and we'll have the results back soon. Since it's Christmas this week, I'm sure it will take a little longer to get them back, but hopefully it won't take too long!