Another rainy Monday...

Yes, I've been lazy with the blog. But that's ok... the only person that really reads it (my mom) has been on vacation and couldn't read it anyway :)

So, Thursday & Friday were rough days for Braden. On Thursday he developed an infection in his thumb due to finger nail clipping. Since his neutropenia means he will probably have a hard time fighting off bacterial infections, we decided to take him to the doctor to get it looked at. We also decided to have his 18 month checkup at the same time.

He jumped up to the 75th percentile for height and the 25th percentile for weight! Yeah! And everything else looks great... even if he SHOULD be talking by now. They sent us home with some antibiotics for his thumb.

Friday morning he woke up with a 99.9 degree fever. Which, of course, could have been caused by his infection or the 4 immunizations that we gave him. In retrospect, we should have waited on the shots so we knew which caused the fever. Oh well, lesson learned. We called Children's Hospital and they had us come in for blood tests to make sure he was fighting the infection and didn't need a booster shot for his neutropenia . After waiting a couple hours, the blood work came back and his neutrophils were at 1,890. His base line has been around 300-400. So this is great news... it means his body does indeed mount an attack if there is an infection. We still have to get some baseline numbers to see how he's doing, but it certainly alleviates some of the worries when he does have an infection!

But the poor guy had a rough couple days... 4 shots and a blood draw.

Uncle Brett and (soon-to-be) Aunt Lori came over on Saturday and brought pumpkins! Wow that was fun. I'll write more about that when I've got the pictures and video uploaded.