[tri-med] Re: growth

Kim,
Awwww.  I was just contemplating the fact that Annette is eight years old.  
Eight years.  I've been doing this for EIGHT years.  No wonder I'm so tired all 
the time.  Then I read your email and that last little sentence you put in 
there just made me suck it up, stop whining, oh, poor me, and get up and go hug 
my chunky monkey and fax that application for summer camp, fax that physician 
release form to the pcp, and find a file folder for all the CLASS paperwork 
that is already piling up.

Thanks,

Annette



--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Kim Ihlenfeldt <kimihlenfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Kim Ihlenfeldt <kimihlenfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tri-med] Re: growth
To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 8:10 AM

I would think that picking a child up continously that weighs over 20 lbs would
take a toll on that body.  My husband does manual labor and tosses boxes that
weigh upwards of 75 - 100 lbs during the day, most of the time 12 hours a day. 
I could never do it.  I know how his back is at times and his knees.  I could
hear his knees pop at times.  Personally I think Annette sounds adorable.  It
sounds like she is growing and thriving which is great!  Keep up the good work.

 

Kim
 
> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:12:18 -0700
> From: tri18412@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tri-med] Re: growth
> To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Annette will be 8 years old this Sunday.  She doesn't grow up but
grows out.  When she was born she weighed 4.5 lbs.  At one year old, she weighed
16 lbs.  Once she got trached and stopped getting so sick, she started gaining
weight out.  Now, she is a chunky monkey.  She's 36 inches long and 48 lbs
wide.  lol  She is causing major muscle/joint trauma for me.  I buy ibuprofen by
the caseload.
> Annette
> 
> --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Kim Ihlenfeldt <kimihlenfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> From: Kim Ihlenfeldt <kimihlenfeldt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tri-med] Re: growth
> To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 7:09 PM
> 
> Hi. Candace is big for her age as well - she is in the 96th or 97th
percentile
> for height and around 75th for weight. Basically, she's a beanpole.
Her
> shirt size is around 6 or 7 and her pants are around 5. But remember,
she's
> only 3. Her shoe size is around 10 1/2 (US). Cameron, her brother who is
10,
> wears a 2 1/2, which is 5 sizes bigger. Candace doesn't take Pediasure
but
> she sure does eat like a horse. She actually eats more than Cameron or me
in
> one sitting. I look at food and gain weight but the doctor diagnosed me
with
> PCOS and basically told me that I'll never lose weight. Ah well.
Candace
> grows up but not out which makes buying clothes for her hard. Cameron, on
the
> other hand, is like my husband and me - has a little meat on him (I have
more
> than a little lol). Candace also has heart issues and while she was a baby
she
> had to take Benecal to increase her caloric intake and put a little meat
on her
> bones. After she was on that a while she just took off.
> You didn't mention how old your daughter is?
> 
> 
> 
> Kim, wife to Kerry (complex balanced translocation between the 9, 15, and
18th
> chromosomes), mom to Cameron, 10 (same chromosomes as dad), Cayden T18
(1-16-02
> to 1-16-03), and Candace, 3 (Partial Trisomy 15 and 18)
> 
> > Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:16:31 -0700
> > From: tri18412@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [tri-med] growth
> > To: Tri-Med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > Wow, I'm reading all of the emails about how everyone's kids
are
> small. Why do I have such a humongous child? Annette gets only 12 ounces
of
> Pediasure a day. That's it. She wears a size ten in shirts and 8 in
pants
> (she's short). She had an endocrinologist visit and they checked her
> thyroid, her bone growth and a dozen other things. Everything was normal.
I
> would think that with her heart and lung issues, she would be itty bitty.
Damn
> heredity. Just like the momma, eats next to nothing and still gains
weight.
> > Annette
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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