Wolfie....

Okay I have been meaning to do a health update.....he's got a doc appt on Wed and I will update you all once I get back from that. All in all he's getting better......still having lingering issues but the time between the episodes are getting longer and longer....thanks for everyone's who's been praying for us/him!!!

A little tidbit.....his new doc had him go in for bloodwork last week. One of the test's that came back positive was: HLA B27

Here's a little info about it......

When is it ordered?

An HLA-B27 test may be ordered when a patient has acute or chronic pain and inflammation in his spine, neck, chest, eyes, and/or joints, and the doctor suspects an autoimmune disorder that is associated with the presence of HLA-B27. Sometimes doctors must rely on their clinical findings and the HLA-B27 test result when diagnosing ankylosing spondylitis (and other HLA-B27 related disorders) because the characteristic changes to the bones may not be detectible for several years. Under these circumstances HLA-B27 is not diagnostic but adds additional information, increasing or decreasing the likelihood that the patient has ankylosing spondylitis.

All his other bloodwork is getting back to normal and we are very happy about that!!! We will still have to see a ped rheum doc but this is a nice new start. Will update when I get more info.