1 week ago
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wish Us Luck
Well we are on our way back to go get more blood work done. I have been sick to my stomach all day. So please pray that things will be back to normal so he doesn't have to go through any more testing and so I don't have to keep forking out $500.00 for blood work. I just want my kids to be healthy!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Update
So I wasn't planning on updating this for awhile since his next set of blood work wasn't scheduled until the 13th. Well there was a change in plans. Just when I started to feel a bit calm it all changed.
So yesterday Jones came home from school and told me that he had a bloody nose. Didn't really think much of it until he told me the story. He said after it started he ran to the bathroom, while he was in there one of the janitors came in and said wow this is bad I am going to get someone. So someone came and got him and took him into the office to help him. He said that it took awhile to get it to stop, that it would stop and start again. At this point I started to worry, I didn't know if it was something to worry about but of course I did. I decided to call the teacher to see if I could get any more details. Well she explained to me that she had never seen a nose bleed that bad. She said that it happened so fast and that it looked like blood was shooting out of his nose. She actually didn't believe it was his nose at first, that maybe he had cut himself really bad. Anyway I start to worry even more and so I called the doctor. After talking to the doctor we had an appointment for this morning to go over things and do some more blood work.
Well this morning Jones woke up not feeling well and kept complaining about his throat which I just assumed was his heartburn. So while we were at the doctor she checked his whole body for any random bruising and checked all of his lymph node to see if any were inflamed. Luckily he checked out fine but she told me she wanted me to check him often for a fever and a certain type of bruising, which of course scared the $#!* out of me because those are signs of Leukemia. After checking for the bruises she looked in his throat and well I was wrong his throat hurts not because of heartburn but because he now has strep. Anyway after talking with her for a bit we got some blood work done, and did the waiting game the rest of the day for the results. Finally around 3:30 the doctor called and said we have good news his blood platelet levels are good, his red blood cell count is good, and his white blood cells have gone back up to a 4.1. Still not where they need to be but at least they are going up instead of down. With the red blood cell and platelet count being good we are not so worried about the bloody nose. So now the plan is to get into an allergist to find out why the eosinophil level are high and then repeat blood work in one month. At that point if his level are still not where they need to be then we will go to the Hematologist.
I have to say the past few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster for all of us and I am emotionally exhausted, but at least things are on the up. So thanks for the prayers, calls, and supportive emails just please keep on praying that the levels will continue to go up.
So yesterday Jones came home from school and told me that he had a bloody nose. Didn't really think much of it until he told me the story. He said after it started he ran to the bathroom, while he was in there one of the janitors came in and said wow this is bad I am going to get someone. So someone came and got him and took him into the office to help him. He said that it took awhile to get it to stop, that it would stop and start again. At this point I started to worry, I didn't know if it was something to worry about but of course I did. I decided to call the teacher to see if I could get any more details. Well she explained to me that she had never seen a nose bleed that bad. She said that it happened so fast and that it looked like blood was shooting out of his nose. She actually didn't believe it was his nose at first, that maybe he had cut himself really bad. Anyway I start to worry even more and so I called the doctor. After talking to the doctor we had an appointment for this morning to go over things and do some more blood work.
Well this morning Jones woke up not feeling well and kept complaining about his throat which I just assumed was his heartburn. So while we were at the doctor she checked his whole body for any random bruising and checked all of his lymph node to see if any were inflamed. Luckily he checked out fine but she told me she wanted me to check him often for a fever and a certain type of bruising, which of course scared the $#!* out of me because those are signs of Leukemia. After checking for the bruises she looked in his throat and well I was wrong his throat hurts not because of heartburn but because he now has strep. Anyway after talking with her for a bit we got some blood work done, and did the waiting game the rest of the day for the results. Finally around 3:30 the doctor called and said we have good news his blood platelet levels are good, his red blood cell count is good, and his white blood cells have gone back up to a 4.1. Still not where they need to be but at least they are going up instead of down. With the red blood cell and platelet count being good we are not so worried about the bloody nose. So now the plan is to get into an allergist to find out why the eosinophil level are high and then repeat blood work in one month. At that point if his level are still not where they need to be then we will go to the Hematologist.
I have to say the past few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster for all of us and I am emotionally exhausted, but at least things are on the up. So thanks for the prayers, calls, and supportive emails just please keep on praying that the levels will continue to go up.
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