Leah's test...

We took Leah to have her sweat chloride test done this morning. She did so well throughout the whole ordeal. But what do you expect from a child who, for whatever reason, is always so good at the doctors. They put these straps on her forearms, two for each arm and hook the straps up to a machine that sends these vibrations through her skin. That part scared her a little and she did start to cry for a few seconds.

She had to sit still that for 25 minutes. Poor thing. But she barely squirmed. Then they take the straps off and put gauze where the straps were and wrapped her arms in sheets of 'plastic wrap' and then put hot packs on top of the plastic wrap, and then wrapped gauze around the hot packs to secure them. I do have to say that she looked so cute with all of that stuff piled on her cute little arms. By that point the Doctor said she could move around and she had fun lifting her arms that had tripled in size, up and down.

They do this because they need to test how much salt is in her sweat. Typically, people with CF have very salty skin. So about 25 minutes after the doctor put the hot pack on, he then unwrapped my baby's arms, took the gauze to weigh it and see if they had collected enough sweat to test or else we'd have to do it all over again. But fortunately, there was enough to test. They made us come on the weekend but won't test it until this coming week!
That's the part I do not get.

They were so good to Leah, and she really liked them alot.
The waiting is really starting to get to me. We're trying (and sometimes failing) to not dwell on it and make these next few days until we know the results that could change our entire lives forever, the best couple of days. Where everything is kind of innocent. That's the best way I can put it. Of course it doesn't help that I'm stuck here with the the flu. What's with the timing? But we're still trying.