HGH Training....

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Yesterday (9-16-10) we traveled to Tacoma to Mary Bridge for ... our training with the HGH device.  It marked the start of his daily shots, and even though I've been emotional and nervous we were anxious to get it over with AND get it started to help him grow.  Everyday counts....

We packed up the easypod and the training medicine cartridges, a few other things and hit the road.

We got there with plenty of time ... our appointment with the trainer was at 1:30 and we got there about 1:15... so we walked through the garage and into the clinic... 

We went in the clinic and into the elevator...

Nathan often has to squat on the floor in order to ride in an elevator.  Also you can see the ridge in his skull because of his recent hair cut, those cranial imperfections are more noticeable....

So we rode the elevator up to the 3rd floor, only Endocrinology is on the 2nd floor.. oops ...  so after Nathan made friends ....

We hopped in the other elevator, which was really cool.....  it had a glass back and a changing mural on the back wall, so as you moved, the picture changed... 

Then Nathan walked down to the raccoon department (Endocrinology) .....

The cool thing about Mary Bridge is it has these neat mosaic sun catcher circles in the windows... 

 And they have a bead and tile mosaic wall that I like a lot...

Hanging out in the waiting room because we were early, but our trainer was running late because the family before us took 2 1/2 hours for training.  So we just kinda hung out in the waiting room .... 

 There was a Russian family who spoke very little English and they were playing on both computers.  The little girl was coloring a puppy and Nathan crawled up barking, it was funny, so the Dad invited him to sit next to the little girl ... he said "come sit" to Nathan, and he did, I was impressed.

After they got called back, Dennis and I took turns playing with Nathan on the computer until we got called back.  (Course, Dennis didn't take any pictures of me playing with him, lol)

So I was planning on taking pictures during the training, but we were both involved in the training so I didn't get a chance to.   But we were done in about 45 minutes, and even though the first shot was shocking to him, he did really well with it.  He ended up scoring an Elmo Car Wash toy that he got home and just loved!  Then scored a $45 Buzz Lightyear from Nana ... He got extra cuddles from Mom... and he actually LOOKED at the camera and SMILED!!!

Night 2 of the shot: We took him in our room away from everyone in the living room .... as soon as I put the easypod on his little rump he clenched up, started the injection and he cussed me out in gibberish until it was over.  But he didn't cry... not even a little.

Night 3 of the shot: We ended up doing it in the living room this time, and it left us questioning if we did something wrong.  When I put the easypod on his behind, this time, he was fine, but when the injection started he clenched up MAJORLY and started to cry :(   Broke our hearts.  It totally left us questioning if I had it positioned wrong, if maybe we hit a nerve.

Tonight is Night 4... we can only hope that this gets easier for all of us.  In addition, we are leaving early in the morning for Seattle Children's because Nathan is (crossing fingers) having surgery (2nd stage of his hypospadious) tomorrow.  There is some question if maybe he won't because he's had his ongoing cold for several weeks.  But we're going to pack up and be ready and hope that it happens so we can get it over with.  I will try to update as soon as I can on it.  I may end up doing short updates from my blog application on my phone.