August 15 - Blood Work

August 15 - Blood Work

Well this is not the regularly scheduled program. We are here at the lab on a Tuesday! Levi was out of school yesterday because of a stomach bug. Stomach bugs can put our numbers down lower then anything else so both Jay and I were worried and decided that blood work was the best course of action. Although he had only vomited 3 times between 2am and 7am Monday morning we were still concerned that it might be a virus of some sort and wanted to get his numbers checked.

We got to the lab and there were people ahead of us so we settled in to the waiting room to wait our turn. Levi was being silly!

 Finally it was out turn. Levi went right in to get his band-aid. He found the Blaze box again and asked me to find blaze this time (last week he had the blaze box and the band-aid I gave him was Crusher and Pickle instead of Blaze and he wasn't very happy!). This time I held them up to the light and was lucky enough to find Blaze. He climbed in the chair to open the band-aid all by himself.

 The draw went well although Levi did tell P his normal complaint of "I don't like that pokey thing!" but otherwise he set well and did a good job! He headed to the treasure box and found a container of silly putty! He was pretty excited about that. Then we headed out and found a donut! :)

Then we were off to school!

I got to work and was wondering why Jay hadn't gotten me counts yet. I kept bugging him about why he wasn't checking the fax machine. Of course he was super busy at work and was getting annoyed at me for bugging him constantly. When numbers hadn't come in at 11:30 he called the lab and the person he got wanted nothing to do with him and wouldn't talk to him just sent him to medical records. Around 12:30 he called again. He got a different person at the lab who was all like "oh yea, Levi, we know him" but still wouldn't even discuss the fax and again forwarded him to medical records. So frustrating. Around 1:00 I started calling the house and listening to the answering machine, the old school method of getting results. Thankfully the results came in early afternoon from Dr. K so they were pretty detailed. His counts were 313! A great number with what we had yesterday! Very happy! Now we will just need to track down the full record from medical records next week so that we can put it in our records. Very frustrating!

Next plan: Blood work again on Friday to have a baseline before infusion next Tuesday!