Never A Dull Moment!!!

Yesterday started off as any regular day! Wil and I joined Emma's class on a walk to the neighborhood fire station. After that Wil and I headed to a girlfriends to have a morning play date with some buddies. At the play date my girlfriend who is a nurse practitioner noticed some spots on Wil that I hadn't see, after a closer examination she suggested that we take him in to see the pediatrician. Headed in at 2pm to get the little guy checked out. Dr. was concerned sent us to the hospital to get blood drawn. Left her office with the diagnosis that it could be anything from a virus causing this to leukemia, so needless to say I was a bit emotional on the ride to the hospital. Called Eric and had him come home from work and started crying in the car after hanging up with him, to many mommy thoughts playing the worst case scenario out in my brain. From the back seat I here, "mommy why are you crying that's silly" played it off and dried up my tears and put on my brave face for Wil. Blood work taken and then we headed home to wait on a call back from the Dr. Got a call back very shortly there after and the worse case was taken out of the equation, not leukemia, huge sigh of relief! Still didn't know what it was though for sure. His Platelet count was extremely low so she told us to pack up and head to the Children's hospital in Providence and be prepared to stay for the weekend. Packed Emma up and dropped her off at my folks then Eric, Wil and I headed for Hasbro's Children's hospital. Time to draw more blood, our least favorite part, but at least this time they put in a line so that they could just draw/administer meds through that, Wil thanked the nurses afterwards after being prompted and they laughed that nobody has ever thanked them for that!. Blood work run again at the children's hospital and still crazy low count, normal would be 150,000 and Wil's was only at 2,000 so we got to stay overnight! The simple explanation of what was happend was that Wil must have had a virus and his body created anti-bodies to fight it but they went nuts and also started attacking his good cells. What they needed to do was give him meds to tell his body to calm down and stop killing the good cells. With the low Platelets the biggest thing was to keep him calm and not let him fall because is he did take a good spill he could have started bleeding internally and that could be hard to control. We hung out in the emergency ward till 11:45pm when we finally got moved upstairs to a room. Eric hung with us for a while but by quarter to 1am he headed over to his office to get some sleep on the sofa. Wil finally passed out for a bit and then at 2:30 we got the process started of treating him. Big dose of Tylenol and Benadryl then the meds to get his body to calm down. Wil was a super trooper and slept through everything last night, vitals checked every 30 mins and he didn't stir! He woke up at 7:30 when the Dr. came in to check on him only a half hour left being hooked up to the IV meds machine and then we were good to unhook and chill. I have to praise Hasbro last night while in the emergency waiting room they had a person there with an art cart so the kids could color and paint! Today we were able to hit the playroom, it was filled with toys and art supplies. It was a nice distraction from the movies in our room and the toys we brought with us. We are now just hanging waiting for them to take another blood test around 2pm to see if the meds are doing their job! Till then we are heading back to the play room :)



Watching Netflix while waiting in the ER!




Being a good boy while they get ready to do his blood draw.




Passed out waiting to be transfered upstairs :)