The Hospital!

Well, it started out as a regular day, until J told me about the "bump" in his mouth that was bugging him. I looked in and he had "blood blister" type bumps in his mouth (3 to be exact) I could tell they weren't normal so I called the dr. to see him that day. Luckily we were able to get in first thing in the morning. We had planned to go to the park with a friend and her son, so she just watched the other kids. Well, the Dr. noticed that J's blood was not clotting and he sent us for blood tests. The nurse said "this could be nothing or something major, we'll call you asap!" So, needless to say I was sick with worry. We continued out to the park until the Dr. called us at 1:15 (pretty fast) J had ITP, which means his blood platelet count was really low. Normal is 125,000 and J's was 4000. Yeah, a little low! So, we had to go to the hospital for an IV of meds. We checked in around 4. (bless my friend and family members who took the rest of the kids) Finally the IV was started aroun 7pm and in until 5am. Then we had to wait for the blood test results to see if his body stopped kicking out his platelets. (basically he was fighting an infection and his body got confused and started removing the platelets). The first blood test only showed slight improvement, but we did another one around noon and it came back with positive results and a much higher platelet count. So, J was released from the hospital! YEAH! He was ready to go, what started out as fun soon lost its luster! So, now we just need to do daily blood tests (J is not happy about that) until we get closer to the normal range. It was an absolutely frightening moment not knowing what was going on, but all turned out well. We are just praying that his body continues on this path!