TAN #66: Get your kicks on TAN-66 (Page 38)

soooooooo

neil LOVES this new haircut

and i still hate it

sigh

When are you going to get it the way you want it done?  I would assume it's much more important for you to be happy with your hair than for Neil to be happy with it.

well i can't do what i originally wanted, but i can do the britney bob.  i just don't like it like this!  gah!  i'll call heidi and see when she can fit me in.  no time today...

hey all... I've been a little pre-occupied... from my blog today...

This past weekend, my wife and I noticed that our 2-year old had a number of dark bruises.  Being that he is two, we are used to seeing bruises on his shins.  But they are usually lighter bruises.. this is typical.  The bruises we saw now however... bigger, darker, on his chest, on his back, on his hip... these were not ordinary bruises.  So today I took him to the pediatrician.  He agreed, these didn't look normal. So we took some blood and ran some tests. 

Results came in and we found his platelet count was in the 4000's.  The low end of normal, if I heard the doc correctly is 150k.  None of the data showed anything horrendous like leukemia or lymphoma... instead it's something called ITP.  I don't know what it stands for... but essentially his antibodies, now that they kicked the RSV's @$$, are in berserker mode.  The antibodies are now attacking the platelets.  So this is all very treatable, but it has to be done in the hospital since it is all intravenous treatment. 

So I got to ambush my son twice... once at the doc's lab and again tonight at the hospital to insert the IV.  yay.

He should be in the hospital 2 or 3 days, but we are at the mercy of the platelet count.  We need to see it start to go back up.  

Not liking the 'do that much, huh?

nope i reallllllly dislike it.

You wearing a ball cap or knit cap now?

What's happening Tex?

That's always fun.  I don't love how long it can take to warm back up.

About 1 lap for me.

7 am is ungodly?  really?

There are signs that say you have to.   I always do, and I wish the pools around here enforced that, and had a rule about swim cap use for people with long hair.  Even if I had to wear a swim cap as well, I would be willing to.  I hate swimming through big clumps of hair.