January 30 - Blood Work

January 30 - Blood Work

Well the weekend wasn't bad but it wasn't great either so we decided to do blood work again this morning. He has some bruising, all in pretty typical toddler places so nothing crazy, just wasn't a particular rough weekend to be bruising that much. Also he had some stomach issues yesterday, over night, and this morning, and stomach bugs can knock him off his feet quicker then anything else. So better safe then sorry.

We got to the lab and there was a bit of a wait again so Levi wanted his animal book. I don't remember exactly when the book came, but a volunteer brought it over to him one day when we were waiting and told him that he could look at it, and then just leave it on the table and she would clean it up. I figured we would never see it again, so when he asked for it this time, I told him it wasn't there, so we went looking for a magazine and low and behold the book was in the magazine rack! It's a noisy book about animals. Levi loves it! But it definitely makes my life a little more difficult with trying to make him be quiet. But he did pretty well.

 It was Nurse M, who is super nice but not the most experienced and since Levi was in a mood I asked for Nurse Pa to come down and draw Levi's blood. She is always up for coming down if she know's it's Levi! She has started to bring him stickers when she comes down, so he likes that! As we were sitting and waiting Levi had to go Potty, so in we went. Really I think he just likes to delay and thinks that maybe I am going to let him Pee in a cup, which is apparently the most hilarious thing ever to a toddler.

Then it was on to the draw. He helped Nurse Pa pick out his tubes. He asked for an extra tighty tight and was playing with it. He was having a blast, but definitely almost totally accidentally punched Nurse M in the nose while stretching it. The actual draw went fine. :) Nurse Pa got him on the first try and that was nice! Then it was off to the treasure box. And what a nice surprise, the couple who refills it had been there and it was full to the brim with cool toys again (it had been dwindling down to the crummy stuff at the bottom again). On the top was a helicopter and Levi went crazy! He was so excited for it. Here are the best pictures I could get with it because he was just flying it all over the place.

Then we were off to school!

Counts came in around 10 today, his count was up to 267!! YAY!! An amazing number and a great increase! The infusion worked! Just took a little longer then some days!

Next plans will be blood work again on Thursday just to continue on our regularly scheduled program!