We took Braden for a "routine" blood test on Saturday morning. They were testing for lead, since we live in an older house, and hemoglobin, which is routine as well.
Sunday morning I received a phone call from his pediatrician notifying me that his platelet level was low. She told me that the lab called her at 3 am, which alarmed me to start with. Then she asked me questions, like, is he bruised a lot, which he is, which I thought was due to him being a 13 month old who thinks he can RUN. Does he have a fever? Not currently, but in the past 6 months he's had quite a few that had no other symptoms. A few more questions I don't remember specifically. She said it was probably a mistake in the blood test since they did a finger-prick test, and that we had to take him today to test again.
Today Chris took him for the second blood test - again, platelets are low. We are seeing a specialist tomorrow at Children's Hospital. Hopefully we get some insight soon. Until then this is pretty scary. I don't know what is wrong with my child. There's nothing I can do to help him. No one can tell me how serious this can be. I'm tempted to do more googling but that led me to some scary things so I'm going to resist the urge.
If you're reading this, please say a prayer that all goes well tomorrow at the doctor's. I'll post more as I find out.
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