February 4 - Blood Draw

February 4 - Blood Draw

Today we are back at the lab for blood work. After how well he did on Tuesday the nice nurse and I decided that we would try to do blood work without a second nurse. That was a great call. Levi did amazing. No problems at all. He set right in the chair, put his little arm out, and didn't make a peep at all. The nice nurse got him on the first poke as always. I really think we should change her name from nice nurse to amazing awesome nurse. Levi was excited to jump down after he got his minion band aid. He walked right over to the treasure box and pulled it out, once he got the cover off he started digging around. The whole drive to the lab Levi had talked about getting a new fishy. But there was no fishy in the box. He was a little disappointed for a minute until he saw that there was a multi colored koosh ball, and then the world was good. We walked out of the lab as proud and as happy as he could be, showing the "bath tub" aka fountain our ball.

Levi was up this morning at 5:50 so we were at the lab very early. There was no line no waiting. So I don't have a waiting in the waiting room pic today.

Eating breakfast in the car after the blood draw.

Drop off at daycare went great. And I headed to work. I wasn't concerned about today's blood draw as we had just done plasma on Tuesday. But as the hours ticked by and I hadn't heard the numbers I was getting more and more nervous. Around 2pm I finally got freaked out enough and had Jay call them. We heard from Dr. V's resident. Levi's numbers are at 166. Umm.. What?!?! We just did plasma, how in the world did his numbers go down.

Around 3:30 we heard from Dr. V that he wasn't overly concerned about the numbers. It is possible that his body was just still on a downward trend and even with the plasma infusion it hadn't picked back up yet. He wanted to do the wait and see method and do blood work again on Monday. But if we noticed any bruising over the weekend then we needed to call the on call provider.

A little over whelming to deal with as it wasn't what we expected. Attempting to not freak out and hope that we don't notice anything over the weekend and that on Monday his numbers will be back up.