Our continued journey of ITP

Cole had blood work on Wednesday October 1st. Thursday we got a call from his doctor and he is at 27,000 for platelets. The hope was that his platelets would come back up after everything else in his blood work improved. Well it has been over 2 weeks and his platelets still haven't come up. They've risen 4,000 but that really isn't much of an improvement. They would consider that holding steady. The doctor said that she thought that by now his platelets would have come back up and there's a potential he will be chronic but it's still to early to determine that.

On Monday we go to his regular pediatrician for his 15 month well baby check up. I'm thinking he will still be tall and slender! :)

On the 20th we go back to Children's Mercy to meet with his Hem/Onc doctor and hopefully get something straightened out with his platelets or at least a plan of what to do from here.


Here is some fun news for you...

This week Josh, Cole and I got to watch the Royals in the playoffs for the first time in all of our lives! The Royals won the World Series about 4 months before Josh and I were born. It has been pretty cool to see them do well for the first time in our lives while sharing that with Cole.

Also, Grandma and Grandpa Stevenson planted pumpkins in their garden this year and Cole got to go pick a few the other day. It's pretty cool for Cole to have his own pumpkin patch!