She gained weight

Today went pretty well at clinic got blood drawn. Echo of course took for ever like it always does but her echo came back great. Dr Everitt did mention that she did use her pace maker while they were doing her echo so she defiantly needed one she said.

She got her weight checked and she gained 2 pounds in a month which is an all time record for Makenzie she is now back to her pre-surgery weight back in February which was 30 pounds. She got down to 26 pounds after her surgery for not eating for a week. We are so proud of her for gaining that much in a month. They have told us if she doesn't keep gaining on her own they will put her on medication to enhance her hunger for a few months or last result a feeding tube which we don't want either. We would rather have her gain on her own terms. but she needs to be at 35 pounds to be were she should be for her height, so we have a little ways to go unless she keeps it up like last month.

We just have to keep power packing. When we went to Denver for her surgery in February they gave us sample's (like 30 boxes) of Kids Boost Essential 1.5 which has 355 calories in an 8 oz box she hated it when we were there so I never thought of trying to give it to her when we got home but for some reason I gave it to her and on top of that I pour in some heavy whipping cream which adds another 50 calorie's for every 1 Tbl spoon. plus sometimes if it tastes funny to her she tells me to add more Instant Carnation to it, because that is what she thinks she is drinking because she hated the Kids Essential so I have to secretly mix it for her. So I give a lot of the credit to the high calorie drink.
The bad part about the Kids Boost Essential 1.5 is that it is so expensive and you can't buy it at local store's so if you purchase it on line it varies from $50-$60 for a 27 pack which Kenzie drinks about 1 to 1 1/2 cans a day so it will be really costly for us if we had to buy two 27 packs a month, and we are slowly running out and the Dietitian here was able to only give us 6 sample's so that will only last 3 days so we are hoping she will continue to gain weight when she runs out.
So hopefully next month we go for clinic she will gain again even if it isn't 2 pounds but gaining anything will be better than losing weight.