More medical news to share

Today we went back with all five of the new children to have their tb tests read... I knew the results... the boys were negative and the girls are positive... Not a big surpise... other than Caleb who had on his medical a tb reading that was 25 mm duration which is very high positive. He had no sign of even the test being done... Tells you how accurate the tb test was in Ukraine in April. That is why as adoptive parents I recommend we take all the medicals we get on these children with 10 lbs of salt.....

Now for some really neat news about the tb tests. When we went on Tuesday for the test to the health dept. the nurse in charge said that our health dept. in Berleley Co. had been choosen in the state of WV to begin using the Quantiferon Gold tb blood test... this is a great test that can differentiate between BCG vaccine reaction and exposure to the disease... what it means than if you have a positive ppd you would have had to do 9 months of INH therapy ( sometimes it has side effects). We have done this route with Leah who had a 20 mm duration and she did not have any side effects ptl.... Now the Quantiferon test was not approved for children under 17 yrs... the cdc had not approved it yet- mostly due to lack of data (not enough children has it been done on). I offered all of my kiddos to be test subjects to up their data :)

Well when we went back today the nurse said that it had just gotten approved for children 2yrs and over.... YEAH! and our 3 with the positive ppd will be WV first children to have it.... paid for by the health dept...

People question so many times how or why Paul and Ido what we do.... mostly in a positive way as well as just wondereing how.... the answer is the Lord always provides for what He calls us to... We just have to be obedient to His will and not our own...