October 12 - Blood Work

October 12 - Blood Work

Levi isn't feeling very well today. He has a head cold and didn't sleep great so when he asked to wear soft pants and bring turtle to blood work we agree!! When we got to the lab he was so excited to show Turtle the fountain. I had to remind him that turtle couldn't go swimming in it!! But overall it went well!

 We got into the lab and there was a wait so Levi set down. Him and turtle took selfies! Then they set and played Toca Kitchen together.

 It wasn't too long before it was time to head inside. Levi picked out his band-aid, spiderman! and climbed up into the chair.

 P and Levi had a whole talk about things in the chair today. He once again gave his last name and numbers, so I really am not needed for the process anymore! Then Levi launched into his speech about his likes and dislikes "I like the tighty-tight, coldy-cold, softy-soft, tubies, band-aid, and treasure box, but i DO NOT like the pokey thing!"P answered him with "I don't like to stick you with the pokey thing either! But if you didn't have to come here I never would have gotten to know you!" and she gave him a big hug. He looked right at her with the most honest expression and said "I would have just come and said hi!" It was super adorable!

Before long we were off to the treasure box. Levi picked out a smiley face figurine! It has hearts for eyes, and Levi thought it was adorable!!

Since we were running late it was a donut day! There was no line so Levi went right over to the donut lady and placed his order loud and clear as can be. Then we paid her and for the first time ever the donut lady gave him a big hug! He looked right at her and said "I love you Donut Lady!" It was so cute!! But possibly we get donuts a little too often if he loves the donut lady! HAHA.

Then we were off to the car to eat our donut and head to school!

I got to work and started the wait for results. They didn't come and didn't come and didn't come! I called the house several times to confirm that DHMC hadn't received them and called us with results but they hadn't either. Finally at 2:30 I e-mailed our patient advocate and explained how fed up I was and how they were slipping later and later. He dealt with the issue and we got results at 3:40, he responded to my e-mail after that saying we should have them by then and with a direct number to him and a direct number to the lab for future lack of results! I am so fed up with the lab not getting us results in a timely manner, when clearly they can as we sometimes get them within 30 minutes. So frustrating!

Anyways, his counts came back at 171! Much higher then I thought they would be with his cold. It's so hard to know what numbers are going to be!!

Next Plan: Blood work again on Monday to see what counts are!