July 2 - Blood Work

July 2 - Blood Work

Happy Monday everyone!!! We got to the lab and there was a slight wait. So we settled into the waiting room for our traditional waiting room selfies.

Levi was being a goofball as per usual!

At this point of the morning I was not aware that the labs had come in late Friday night as Jay hadn't messaged me that they were on his desk, so I told P that they had never come in. She was flabbergasted and frustrated!! She was immediately on her phone and called her boss, T. As soon as P said that it was Levi who hadn't gotten his counts T was incredibly upset as well and said that she would look into it immediately. She could quickly see that for some reason his labs had gone through the regular track instead of the stat track even though they were clearly marked stat, and she could see that they were not correctly reported out. She apologized (she was on speaker phone while P did the paperwork for today) more times then I can count and said she was on her way to the lab to get to the bottom of it as soon as she hung up. She agreed that it was unacceptable and didn't understand how it could keep happening to the same patient. I am so appreciative that both P and T understand the importance of this stat lab and work together to make sure that things are good for us.

While P and I were dealing with the labs from last week Levi had gotten his band-aid and climbed up into the chair with the tablet to wait. He is so good at doing what he needs to do.

The draw itself went great as always! P is amazing and Levi is so good with her. He was off to the treasure box before we knew it and picked a small toy, and then we were off to school.

Counts came in before I even got to work today, so less then 30 minutes post draw! T clearly was on top of it and monitoring things today. His count was 227. An 84 point drop since Thursday. That's a huge drop. Something we would be much more concerned about if it was from 200-116, but from 311 to 227 we aren't too concerned. We will definitely monitor to make sure he doesn't continue big drops like that, but in the 200's he is still very much in the safe zone and we don't need to worry about things.

Next Plan to check his counts again on Thursday to see how things are. Hope everyone has a great Independence Day!! Levi loves fireworks so I am sure we will have fun doing something cool. We have a lot of packing and moving to do, but we will make sure to spend some family time too since we will all be home.