January 25 - Blood Work

January 25 - Blood Work

What a Morning!! Levi is having a really rough time getting ready in the morning, he is the biggest delay fish ever and will end up just sitting down on the floor and rolling around, it's very frustrating, and this morning was one of the worst mornings out there, and in a moment of utter frustration I took away his promised donut at blood work. He cried, but got himself moving, and did turn around his attitude in the car and at blood work. I told him he was good at blood work and if he kept up the good behavior we would get a donut on Monday. I also am going to work on a morning chart because seriously something has got to change.

We got to the hospital and his fountain was still working so he was pretty excited about that!

 We got over to the lab and there was no line, he climbed up in the chair in the waiting room to sit and wait, since we have had so many waits lately. P said "you can come in silly!" and he went running in. He picked out a bug band-aid and was pretty excited that it was green!

The draw went ok. He wasn't overly happy about it and moved some, but P did a great job of getting it to work the first time! Levi was playing on the tablet, he had found a Mr. Potato Head game and was busy dressing and undressing Mr. Potato Head. Since there was no one waiting we let Levi finish his game once the draw was done, usually we make him stop as soon as the band-aid is on.

Then he was off to the treasure box. He quickly picked a light up Santa nose that he has been eyeing for a month of so. Then he gave big hugs to P. She is on vacation all of next week, so we wont see her until Monday February 5th! It will be the longest we have gone without seeing her since last winter when she was out on leave!

Then we were off to the car. He did stop in the entryway and asked if he could get a donut, but when I reminded him that he had lost it this morning, he didn't fuss, just said right, and walked to the car.

Counts didn't come in again!!! So Jay called medical records and they faxed them right over, but their faxes are horrible so it's a lot of trying to figure out what it says. The lady at medical records did tell Jay that we could now sign up for the patient portal which would give us the results online, but I fear that like DHMC's portal it will take several days to show up there. So it will help us keep all the results in one place, but wont help us on blood work days. I will go and sign up for it though, we have to do it in person and show ID.

Counts were 180. So a good number still and a slow down in the fall, so that is hopefully a good sign that we are leveling out!

Next Plan: Blood work again on Monday!