April 26 - Blood Work

April 26 - Blood Work

Well we are back from Vacation! Levi did amazing and had such a great time! This is one of my favorite pictures! It's just so priceless!!

Now back to reality! It was very nice to spend 8 days away from it and somewhat forget about Levi's health stuff. He picked up a slight cold the last few days at Disney World and is definitely over tired, so no idea what his numbers will be like today. He isn't bruised at all, well except the few obvious places where he took some normal toddler headers at the parks and in the hotel and pool. But bruising is not always a great indicator for us. 

We let Levi sleep in this morning and then had a relaxing morning at home. So we got to the hospital mid morning. As we were heading in, P was heading out. She stopped to ask what we were doing and Levi said "coming to see you! It's a P day!!" She gave him a little hug and said she would be back in 10 minutes she was just going on her break. So I didn't hurry at all. Levi hung out at his fountain for awhile. 

 Oh yes, look, we are back in pants. NH welcomed us back from vacation with cold and wet weather. :( We are ready for spring and summer not winter still!

 Then we headed into the lab waiting room. There were several people ahead of us so I figured we were good. Levi wanted his jungle book. He has started "reading" it to me. It's so cute to listen to him reading the pages and what words he remembers on each page and which ones he doesn't. And yes every page looks like the same jungle but he can tell you which page is which animal by the color button the page is telling you to press! He is such a smarty pants.

 P got back and moved the process along! It was soon Levi's turn. He went running in and gave P a huge hug! And said "I missed you!" So cute! He did a great job with the blood draw! And then we were off to the treasure box. He gave P another hug on the way out!

He asked if he could get a donut and I said sure, so we were off to see the "Donut lady!" Levi ordered and paid for his own donut. He is so excited when he does that. He does really well with it. Then we were off to school.

Numbers came in a little while after that at 302! An amazing number! With everything that we have done in the last 10 days since our last blood work, everywhere we have gone, everyone we have exposed him too, the cold he has, the cuts and scrapes and bumps he got, having a count this high is just amazing! Makes me feel great to see how well his little body can do with all of this!! Next step: Blood work again next Thursday.