We had an appointment downtown this morning with infectious disease. It was something scheduled when we were discharged from the hospital.
I planned accordingly, planned for a slow drive in and we made it with time to spare for the appointment, too bad the doctor didn't. Another doctor came in until ours got there and asked if I knew what we were there for, which my reply was "No, I didn't make the appointment it was made for us".
The doctor noted that this appointment is typically done prior to moving to Rituximab treatment, they want to make sure patients don't have Hep B - well that's all behind us, they did that the day before we started our first treatment. Geez, do you think I should ask for my $30 co-pay back (they consider this doctor a specialist, just another way to make me pay more for health care).
The did give Austin another booster shot, one more for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and did another blood test. At least I got them to do our weekly blood draw at the same time so the poor kid didn't have to be poked twice for blood today.
Hemoglobin is trending upwards, we were at 8.6 we are now at 9.8 - a good thing - just hoping it will continue to improve and then stabilize. We'll have to wait and see what happens 6 months from now. Still other things way out of whack with his CBC but I only truly understand what the hemoglobin means as it relates to his Hemolytic Anemia.
Next treatment is Thursday, we don't have "Throwback Thursdays" we have "Treatment Thursdays" one day I just want a plan old Thursday :-).
No comments:
Post a Comment