Health

Overall Aliyah is really healthy but we still have had a few health issues to address since she came home. When we received our referral pictures we were told that she had a few small lesions on her chin. Well in the four months between the referral and when we traveled for our first court trip we found out that they are actually molluscums and they had spread, a lot. The picture above is from our first trip when she had several of these pox marks all over her face and legs. We talked to two different pediatricians about this and they both said the same thing, it's highly contagious and other than eviscerating them, there's not much you can do. Luckily they have slowly cleared up and she has not developed any new spots. She is down to three now and hopefully soon we will be rid of this pesky virus.

A recent picture of her almost molluscum free face :)

The only other major health problem has been that she has Giardia. This came up during the original lab panel that the doctor ordered when Aliyah first came home. The doctor prescribed medicine and didn't feel the need to retest since the medicine is highly effective. We recently had reason to believe that she might still have it so we retested and sure enough, she has a "resistant" strain. Giardia is a parasite that she likely got from the water. The interesting thing is that she doesn't show any of the typical symptoms of Giardia which I'm guessing is because she's had it a long time and is used to it? I'm hoping that this second round of treatment will take care of her Giardia. With this third round of testing we are at about 20 stool samples collected and it's absolutely as disgusting as it sounds. Of course the boys are fascinated by the whole process. Me, not so much!