My daughter is very, very small. She's on the 3rd percentile for growth. She's 14 and is the size of an 8-1/2 year old. Our family practitioner has always been worried about her size, but mostly just her weight. She went in for her physical last week and was seen by a pediatric nurse practitioner who was filling in that day. She says even though my side of the family is small, she should be checked out by a pediatrician anyway. A week later she was seen. That was this Monday. The doctor ran chromosome and growth hormone tests and routine blood work, and took a bone age x-ray. Her bone age is 12. So far the tests have come back fine, but we don't know the chromosome or hormone levels since those went to Mayo Clinic. Regardless, Milwaukee Children's Hospital wants to see her so urgently that they're going to bump someone off the schedule to make room for my daughter.

I call my ex to let him know and he just says "I'm glad they're concerned, but why all of a sudden now?" Uh, because a medical practitioner finally pushed it instead of doing the usual "let's just keep an eye on her."

I'm not like my ex where I only get concerned when I have the legal system breathing down my neck or don't like the recommendations a doctor has already made for the kids. F****** butt head.

If he thinks I'm doing this because of ulterior motives instead of genuine concern for my daughter's health, why didn't he just ask instead of getting suspicious of my reasons? She's small, she gets picked on, it messes with her head, the pediatrician is concerned, the endocrinologist is concerned, and the window of opportunity to help her is closing. What other reasons do I need?

Sheesh.