February 20 - Blood Work

February 20 - Blood Work

We got to the hospital this morning and Levi wanted to visit the blue emergency light, so we said hi to it and looked at it. Then we went inside and Levi saw that his fountain was working and he yelled "MY FOUNTAIN IS RUNNING!!" and went running for it! I swear everyone on the first floor of the hospital probably heard him. He was standing at his fountain when Donut Lady came over to see him and gave him a big hug. He gave her one too, and almost knocked her over. She said that she had something for him and we headed over to the cafe. She had a chocolate bear for him. He was very excited and gave her another big hug and said "Happy Valentine's Day!" and "Thank You!"

We got over to the lab and the door was closed to go inside. Levi was very upset and asked me if they were closed. I said they weren't as I could hear P's voice inside. I signed Levi in and we set down. He took some cute pictures with his bear.

Then Levi wanted to take his selfies. He figured out that if he held the button down it would flash. I didn't realize that my phone is taken constant pictures when he does that until I looked at my pictures later and saw that I have 47 pictures that look a lot like this one, or with his tongue stuck out!

Then he started playing Fruit Ninja when an announcement came over that "Code Red over... Code Red Cancelled". So not sure what that was about, hopefully it was just a drill. Then one of the regular ladies came out and talked to Levi for a minute. Then P called Levi in. He went right into her office to say hi. She opened her snack drawer and he was checking them all out. She said "Do you want one?" and he didn't answer for a minute, just kept looking at them all and then said "Nope" and walked off to the band-aids. It was cute!

He picked out another Rocky PAW Patrol band-aid. There is now only one left in the new box!

Then he climbed up in the chair for the blood draw and to play on the tablet. He played PBS Kids and sent Daniel Tiger into outer space. The blood draw went super quick today and no problems at all. Then we were off to the treasure box. He really struggled to decide what he wanted today. But ended up with a red and blue truck.

Then we were off to school! And the little bugger is super adorable and "convinced" me that he needed to eat some of his chocolate bear for breakfast! So he did on the way to school!

Counts came in crazy early this morning at 235!! Wow a huge increase! We are now 6 weeks out from an infusion and still well over 200! That's amazing! The fax then came in 2 more times! No idea why. The lab is so strange, some days we don't get the fax at all, some days it take hours, some days it comes in crazy fast, and sometimes we get it several times. Their system definitely needs help.

Next Plan: Levi has an endocrinology appointment tomorrow and then blood work again on Thursday, which will probably involve an endo lab to check his counts again to make sure his synthroid level is correct.