Well, you probably didn\'t notice it, but I haven\'t been here for two days. Heck, I\'m gone and I see a couple threads about me. Whatever. Anyway, I had a very rough couple of days here.
You all probably know that Logan turned one last week.
So therefore he had his 1 year check-up last week and had a Tuberculosis check done. He came back positive for exposure so he had a chest X-Ray and a blood sample drawn.
We got the chest xray back on Friday and everything looked ok with that in that it wasn’t active. He didn’t have the disease, he was just exposed to it.
The blood we didn’t get results from until Monday. On Monday we were told that he had no neutrophils in his blood. This is what is in white blood cells that fights off disease. The count should be over 1000. Below that and you have a chance for sickness. Below 500 and you are considered at risk because you have virtually no defenses for disease. Well, Logan’s neutrophil count was 1. So we had another blood test done on Monday hoping the test was screwed up. On Tuesday we got the second count back and it was a 4. So we took him in to the hospital and had all kinds of tests done on both him and us (To test for where he was exposed to TB from).
He had his bone marrow checked and all looks normal. Apparently he has a virus that knocked his neutrophil count out and left him defenseless. He’s pumped with antibitotics now and hopefully that count will start to go up.
So after three days in the hospital he is back home, but he can’t go anywhere till his count goes up to normal. But at least he is home.
It’s been a very stressful few days, but hopefully all will soon be ok. There isn’t much worse than thinking for 3 days your kid has cancer. Well I guess there is worse, he could have had it.
I\'ve never felt so much stress in my life. I have probably said 10 words in the past two days because I had to hold back tears every time. They always say that you would rather have something happen to yourself than your child. It\'s so true.
