Update

So...son #1 participated in the GA Tech Summer Career Discovery Program I mentioned in my last post (yes, I know, over a month ago). Even though he didn't come back each day over enthused, I think it was a good thing to do. My purpose was to expose him to a possible career choice (and a possible college). In another week or so, he leaves for another one of the programs listed, a Materials Science camp in Ohio. That one is actually free, and will expose him to lab-based work. During the other weeks of the summer, he is working as a counselor in our synagogue preschool's camp. Last week he was a buddy to one of the campers, a special needs girls. On Friday, I went inside to pick him up and was told by the director and another counselor how great he is and loved by the kids. On Shabbat, I went to shul with my youngest, and the parents of the girl told me how much she just adored him.

I have to take Son #1 to a GI doctor after he returns from Ohio. Routine bloodwork came back off. Cholesterol was high, which has happened in the past. Usually strictly watching what he eats is enough to bring it back down. But this time, his calcium and ALT were high too. So we did more blood work, checking a whole bunch of other things. Lipid profile and VAP for a better look at the cholesterol. Phosphorous, ionized calcium, and PHT (or is it PTH?) to see if the reason the calcium was high had to do with his parahyperthyroid. Iron profile too. And a liver ultrasound.

Calcium numbers are fine. But iron was high and liver is fatty. So, next stop the GI doctor.


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