July 13 - Blood Work

July 13 - Blood Work

Camp has only been over for hours, but we are already back to our medical reality. We don't even go home before going to the lab, just straight down the highway.

We arrived at the lab at 1:00 and saw P in the parking garage, she was on her way to lunch. Levi ran and gave her a big hug. She looked at me, and I think for a second almost thought about skipping lunch, but she said it's J inside, and I said oh, she's good. Levi said, I miss you, to P but that he would be good for J.

We went inside and Levi checked out his fountain!

Then we headed over to the lab. There was no line, just a little waiting while J did the paperwork. I made sure that she put in both fax numbers since it was so late on a Friday, I wanted to make sure that we got his numbers. Also Levi has some strange bruising and has been extra tired, so both Jay and I were a little worried about what his counts would be.

The draw went awful, well awful for Levi standards. Levi doesn't do as good for people that aren't P and J couldn't get the tablet unlocked, so he didn't have a distraction. He was not happy with the vein that J picked and he wiggled, this caused her to go thru the vein instead of into it. She then spent quite a bit of time wiggling the needle around in his arm. Levi did well with this, he never cried or yelled, but if looks could kill, well lets just say the hospital would be looking to hire a new lab tech! Eventually she did get it into the vein, and was able to get the two vials of blood she needed.

Then Levi was off to the treasure box. J kept complementing Levi on how well he had done. Levi found water balloons in the treasure box and he picked those. The kid is obsessed with water balloons!!

Then we headed home. We have a busy weekend ahead, as it's moving weekend. We are really hoping to not add an infusion to the craziness of the weekend, but of course we will if needed. We are trying to make plans for the weekend, so after a bit I sent Jay down to work to check the fax machine, there was nothing there. Not good. At just before 5:00 I made Jay check again and there was still nothing there, not a good sign, so I made him start calling. He tried medical records first and they didn't have the results, so then he called the lab directly. He explained the situation to the lab tech, and for once they actually listened to us. She said the computer states it has been automatically faxed from the system, but I will print it out and manually fax it now. If you don't have it within 10 minutes call me back. Jay waited a few minutes and then went back to work and thankfully the fax was there. His count was 214!! An increase since last Thursday!! Phew!!! A huge weight off my shoulders there. Just goes to show there really are no indicators to see what his counts are. By look and attitude, both Jay and I were 95% convinced that we would be heading to Lebanon tonight. Thankfully we don't have too, and instead can move ahead with our weekend plans, which include Levi's first sleepover without Mommy!!! I know he will have a great time and it is harder on me then him, but I am a little worried about it.

Next Plan: Blood work again on Tuesday. Since his counts are still good, we are letting him have 2 nights of sleepover so we can have all day Sunday to move and will pick him up Monday night around dinner time, so won't do blood work until Tuesday.