Andrea's story part 3

 So we move to a very small town in Northwestern Pennsylvania. We have 1 pediatric practice in the town that we live in. It wasn't very hard for us to find a doctor. The only problem is that the Dr that we did have left the practice and moved away. Bringing in another doctor in to replace her.

The Dr before the new one sent Andrea to Pittsburgh Children's hospital. They thought that Andrea had a form of dwarfism called Juene's Syndrome.  I run home to do a Google search. I thought that they completely lost their minds. Mind you at this time Andrea is 3 and they did no x-rays to confirm their diagnosis. They just had a hunch. Let me just say that I was not impressed.

 At Andrea's 4 year old check up I brought up my opinions to her new pediatrician. I told him I wasn't driving anywhere until they could send us to someone that knew what they were talking about. At this time I thought our best optionof getting  a diagnosis was taking Andrea all the way to Delaware to see Dr. Bober. If he and his team couldn't figure it out chances were no one was going to be able to. Andrea's ped. agreed with us. So I came home and made an appointment for her. Our Ped. appointment was in January and we couldn't get in to see Dr. Bober until the end of August.

August came and a girlfriend of mine, Andrea,and I packed up the car for an eight hour drive to see Dr. Bober and the team. Along with Dr. McKenzie. They could not schedule our appointments on the same day therefore, we 2 nights at the Ronald McDonald house. Which I have to say is extremely awesome!

This picture is from Dr. McKenzie's office. We waited a very long time to see him. He thought Andrea had Hypo. He would soon be surprised.










This is a petting zoo. We had a great time because it was family night so admission was only A dollar.

We also went to the Rose Garden's


The next day would be our appointment with Dr. Bober where we were  hoping to get some much needed answers. ........