Collin's 10 Year Check Up

This afternoon, we had Collin's 10 year old checkup.  He is 4'5" which puts him in the 25 percentile for his age, he is 71 pounds 8 oz which puts him in the 51 percentile of his age group and his BM I is at 70 percentile for his age group. Therefore, he's pretty consistent with where he is been since he was an infant as far as in the percentiles.   

It was time for his flu shot and he was pretty worried about how it would feel and ended up not feeling it at all when the nurse gave it to him. He did have to have blood drawn as recommended to test for cholesterol. We did ask several questions about if this was necessary even if there was not a family history of a problem. The doctor recommended we do it as a baseline now and when he's 13. He let out a little "ouch" when she first correct him to draw the blood and then thought it was really cool to watch the blood go into the vile which distracted him from what was really going on.  I was pretty proud of him because I can't stand shots!

The blood work came back resulting in a slightly elevated cholesterol of 195 and they would like it closer to 175. However his good cholesterol is 60 and it should be over 45.  The nurse said continue to have Collin exercise and to eat a variety of healthy foods. 

We did get a recommendation of which neurologist to call to follow up on his testing we did a few weeks back. We are still waiting for the final report, however, we suspect that it will come back that he has ADHD.