Finally! After going through hoops for months, Belinda’s allergy testing has been scheduled for March 13 at a clinic in Edmond that specializes in allergies in people with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. This is one more thing we need to get taken care of so everything is checked off medically before she starts college in Alva in the fall. She’ll also be 18 then, and so she will have to handle more of her medical care as an adult. I will miss having healthcare professionals talk to me without hesitation, since she’s still 17. If we had discovered her issues after August, it would have been so much harder. I thank God that she was diagnosed when she was!

After that, she will go back to the internist in Tulsa on April 17.

It’s hard to believe she will graduate in May. I need to get senior pictures scheduled and start thinking about graduation announcements.

I just realized that her entire high school career has included us dealing with rare disease health care. I pray that her college experience goes smoothly and that the diseases don’t keep her from meeting her goals!