March Checkup

Test results from March Check up

WBC - 5.7
HGB - 13.1
PLT - 52
SEG - 52
LYMPH - 33

So what does that mean? He's fine. No cancer. Healthy as a horse. : )

Eric and I are breathing a little easier now since the boy has been sick non-stop for 3 weeks. We were hoping that wasn't a bad sign and it looks like all his illnesses are just bad luck. Probably has something to do with being in a classroom full of other coughing, sneezing 6 year olds 7 hours a day, 5 days a week.

The Lion

Logan asked for his stuffed lion at bed time tonight. I could not remember him having a lion, so I was confused. He proceeded to describe quite accurately how 5 months ago, a big stuffed dog came into his hospital room and gave him a stuffed lion. The story was complete with his dinner that evening (I had stopped by Papa John's for cheese pizza). This particular hospital visit was for a blood transfusion, so it was brief. After Logan's description, I remembered what happened. It became very vivid, because Diane and I tried to play it off at the time. We left the hospital late that night, then we were back in the slammer the next day with neutropenic fever. I checked with the hospital staff when we were re-admitted the next day, and the lion was indeed lost. Impressed by my own memory skills, I proudly told Logan "We lost that lion in the hospital room and we never found it", wait...Did I just say that out loud?
Well, Logan is devastated. He cried in grief for nearly five minutes, then sniffled out a gameplan: We must find a picture of the lion, then put it on posters with our phone number and hang the posters all over town. I can see it now: LOST LION. ANSWERS TO "FLUFFY". REWARD. CALL LOGAN 555-1212.

If this is his worst memory of Wesley Hospital, I think he will be OK.

Logan's next checkup is on Wednesday, so check back later for the new report. Everybody is in very good health, after fighting every type of bug imaginable last week. Spring-like weather is forecast for this weekend, so we are all planning on working on our tans.