Well, it's been a long few days. The other day I took our youngest son (16 mos) for his "quarterly" checkup and shots expecting to hear "ok, everything's fine...here's your shot's....see you in 3 months..blah blah blah..." but what I heard was..."We're admitting your son to the hostpital for severe anemia". Of course, my first response was "no, you're not!" Here I thought that I brought a healthy kid to the doctor and they're telling me that he's very sick. He runs, jumps, climbs, eats like a piglet...but there were problems with his blood tests. He was so anemic that they were almost at the point of considering a blood transfusion.
Soooooooooo, we spent a little time in the hospital so they could run tests and monitor him. They kept asking me if he's sick-- not to my knowledge. No cold or anything for at least the last couple of months! We came home yesterday and the short answer is that he's severely iron deficient. It's like he's not absorbing it or something. So, we get to give him iron drops orally 3x a day and in 2 weeks they run the tests all over again and see where we're at.
The thing they weren't telling me until the tests came back and they were less worried---was that they were afraid of lukemia. GREAT! (sarcasm) FUN! They said that the original test results made the dr think of early stages of cancer or lukemia. Soooooooooooooooooooooo, they've basically ruled that out--unless he doesn't respond to the extra iron doses.
So, that's what's going on here. I'd appreciate any extra prayers you've got hanging around. ;-) If I'm not on-line or posting, this is why.
Thanks! :-) Theresa in IL