Well, New Year's Eve we spent in the hosiptal getting Kayden a transfusion, because his level had dropped far too low and he couldn't even walk or sit up. Earlier this week, McCoy started doing the same thing. No real symptoms of illness, but super week and would lay on the floor and zone out or fall asleep. So, I took him to the dr and they did all the normal checks and didn't see anything so ran a blood test and his level was lower than Kayden's was.
(Wow, he was really pale!!)Luckily, between the two incidents, we had been to a hemotoligist (blood specialist) and met him for a regular appointment. So instead of going to ER, I still went to Primary Children's, but just went straight to his office after the pediatrician called in the info. McCoy ended up getting a transfusion as well, hates nurses and doctors with a passion and we were home by 8:45pm. By morning, his color was back, his smile was back and he most of his energy was back.
Come to find out, they both caught the Pavlo virus. The symptoms are usually so mild that you may not notice them. If the virus gets into your bones, you can stop making red blood cells, but only for about 2-4 days. In a normal person where their spleen isn't killing them and the cells have a longer lifespan, this would not be a problem and probably not noticable. For these little boys, it puts them out!
Tomorrow is McCoy's 1st birthday and he is healthy, moving and eating again and I'm sure ready to dig into some cake!
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That is such a bummer they both have this condition. At least you are so on the ball and on top of it. Can you believe our boys will be 1 already! We're doing a few little family parties with all our family to celebrate. Time has flown by! Caden's birthday looked like so much fun!!
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