Monday, September 1, 2008

No news is good news.....(but at least it's news/answers right)?

We, yet again, spent the night in the ER. Asher had a fever of 103.5 when I got to him so when we got to the ER it was 105.3. We didn't go by ambulance this time, I took him. I was wanting to avoid him having another seizure, so I decided it best (after talking to a close friend that is an EMT) to go ahead and take him in to the hospital.They took several x-rays and drew some blood, and urine. His urine came back fine. Although the blood tests that they did, came back with high leukocytes or white blood cells and no Neutrophil (defend against bacterial or fungal infection and other very small inflammatory processes that are usually first responders to microbial infection). So this led the ER Dr. to want to run some more blood tests to find the source of the problem, of course, Asher wouldn't have anything to do with that because they had already "stuck a tube" up into his bladder to collect urine, and taken blood for the first test. So, unfortunatley, they were not able to get enough blood to do the tests. I am going to request that they do that bloodwork when I go see his regular pediatrician tomorrow.Now you might be asking yourself, "why do they need to do more bloodwork", well, because there are two main serious viruses that they are wanting to check him for. CMV -which if you check out this website below gives you more information than I ever could.(http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/communicable/cytomegalovirus/fact_sheet.htm)and/orEBV-check out this website for answers as well. (which the doctor informed me this is the virus that could also potentially cause mono)http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/ebv.htm
Right now this is all we know, but as soon as we get more blood drawn and find out why his leukocytes are elevated, and he has no neutrophil I will keep you updated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_blood_cell (here is the website the talks about leukocytes vs. neutrophil)

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