Endocrinologist - Iowa City, Iowa

Yesterday we made a routine visit to the endocrinologist at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City.  She deals with the pituitary gland in the brain.  On Beau's MRI it showed an absent posterior pituitary bright spot - whatever that means.  Apparently children with disorders of the corpus callosum can have 3 main problem areas; the pituitary gland, the optic nerve and of course the corpus callosum.  His optic nerve has looked great at previous appointments with the ophthalmologist and his vision is awesome, so we aren't really worried too much about that.  The appointment went well and the doctor says that Beau is looking great and growing normally so she is fairly certain based on her physical exam and information we provided, that Beau is doing fine.  She did a whole lab work up and unfortunately they had to poke our little man twice to get his blood.  He was a trooper though and was very tough about it!  Now we wait for the results to come back and we pray that they will all be normal.  If they come back OK, we can now start going to the endocrinologist yearly instead of every 4 months like we have been.  That's a step in the right direction!

Here's a picture of Beau doing his "car dance", but for today we'll call it his "happy dance" because his appointment went so well!