Our brave girl

Bella has been having some tummy issues lately. For the past couple months, she has been complaining about her stomach hurting. We tried to eliminate some dairy products and a few other things thinking those were triggering the tummy aches, but that didn't really help much. She even threw up several times at school (poor thing) but whenever they tested her for the flu, it came back negative. Finally, her doctor said she wanted to do an Endoscopy (where they knock you out and put a scope with a camera down your throat so they can see your esophagus, stomach, and digestive tract) on Bellz so she could get a closer look at what's going on. Bella had that done at the Children's hospital in Louisville last week. Turns out she has pretty bad reflux, so her doc has put her on Prevacid to see if that will help with the tummy aches and has also given us a list of foods that we are to avoid for a while. The list includes: onions, strawberries, tomatoes, pineapple, juices, and pickles just to name a few. Seems like those are all pretty acidic foods. Anyway, we're glad it wasn't anyhing more than reflux. We should be able to control it by making a few changes to her diet, and hopefully she won't have to be on the meds for very long before we can go back to her normal diet.

Here's a pic of our brave girl getting ready for her Endoscopy. She looks so grown up!!! :(