False Alarm

This afternoon, just as I was about to head out with K1 to Whole Foods to try to do some grocery shopping, I got a call from our pediatrician. It appears that his sodium level was too low and another marker for his metabolism was low. He could possibly have metabolic acidosis. Of course I had not ever heard of this before but it didn't sound good. She said that it might not be anything but when could I get him back in to have more blood drawn. Oh, and there wasn't enough blood to do his full hepatitis screening so they'd need more blood for that. His left arm was not a good arm for the draw so they had used his right arm and it was bruised up from them attempting to take 7 tubes. I joking said to Pete last night that I thought they were going to run out of blood, and, well, they did just that! This is Good Friday mind you, and I have just gotten off the phone with Pete to tell him not to come home early because I was leaving for shopping and the girls were down for naps so he might as well stay and work later. He is at best 45 minutes away from the hospital. So, I said to her, I can take him tomorrow, assuming that the labs will be open. She replies with, well, it would be better if he went today, right now actually. She'd have the office nurse call the lab to see how late they would be open and her call me back. I then called Pete and told him that he did in fact need to leave right now and meet me at the hospital. There was no way I was going to be able to make Kaiden go through that again, just a day later. It's now 1:45 pm and the lab closes at 3 pm. At least we are only 15 minutes away from it. At least Opa & Oma had already agreed to watch the other girls so I could go grocery shopping.

I put the girls down for naps and left with K1 & Kaiden to meet Pete at the hospital. I had to stop off at the pediatrician's office to pick the blood draw orders but I should still beat Pete to the hospital by at least 30 minutes. I hate parking there because it is just a large parking structure and a large hospital so I got valet parking. I called Pete to see where he was so that I could gage how soon I could sign in for the blood draw. He walked in just 5 minutes behind us. I don't even want to know how fast he must have been driving!

K1 & I waited in the lobby while Pete took Kaiden in. Because his right arm was so bruised from the day before, they had to use the left arm that doesn't have a good vein in it. Poor baby. It went quickly so Pete took Kaiden home and Kaeterina and I still treked half way around the world to go to Whole Foods. Ok, so maybe it is not that far, but it sure feels like it. It's a 40 minute drive if there isn't any traffic! But, I knew it was the only place I'd be able to find a gluten free ham to have for Easter dinner. The sacrifices I make for my family : )

Our pediatrician just called me. It was a false alarm. The tests came back normal. We still have to wait for the hepatitis screening but at least what she was concerned about is fine. I'm not worried about his hepatitis screening either. That test from China is generally accurate and all of his came back negative for those.