March 19 - Blood Work

March 19 - Blood Work

Levi was wide awake at 6am this morning!!! He's never been a good sleeper, but the last few nights have been even more rough then usual. We got to the lab very early this morning since we were all awake so early! There was one gentleman in with P when we got there so I told Levi to take a seat. He jumped around from seat to seat and then ended up on the seat way over there. I asked him why he was sitting all the way over there and his answer was "cause it's a big seat, see it's 2! we can both sit together!!! Mommy do you want to come sit with me?" Just about melted my heart! I definitely would have gone and set with him, but right after he said that P called him in.

 He picked out his band-aid right away, of course picking PJ Masks again! And then he climbed up into the chair to wait for P. Yes those are tattoos on his cheeks, Abby Cadabby on the left side and Ernie on the right side. We put them on yesterday morning for yesterday's Sesame Street Live and even after all day yesterday, multiple face washings, a bath last night, and sleeping all night (well some of it) they haven't even started to fade. You would think they were real, it's crazy!! But he was excited to show them off to his friends at school this morning.

 The blood draw went ok today. P did the normal routine and the second she even got the needle close to him he kinda freaked out, twisting his arm and grabbing it. Not sure what that was about! But after we got it rewashed and got him settled again the draw went great. Sometimes I think he psyches himself up.

Once the draw was done he wanted to keep playing games but I got him out of the chair and off to the treasure box. He struggled to pick what he wanted, but finally settled on some flying thing.

Then we were off to school. Levi was in a super happy mood this morning and we were skipping thru the parking garage. Sometimes his mood shocks me, not many kids would skip through a parking garage after having just gotten stuck in the arm.

Counts took forever to come in today!! Over three and a half hours after I signed us in the labs finally came thru. For a STAT lab! It drives me BATTY!! Anyways, counts are at 227. A great number overall but a HUGE drop from Thursday. Also his Abs Segs are way up, almost doubled since Thursday which is not a good sign for us. Looking at the graphs (yes I graph every single part of his blood work back to platelet count) every time his Abs Segs go up, his platelets fall off. So we will be watching him closely over the next few days hoping that things level out, but I am not holding my breath!