It's That Time Again

It's been a long time since I have posted here.  I skipped posting last year, mostly because I missed Dr. Ebb's call with the counts and I love to have my numbers.

Today, Max and I had a great day.  We went into Boston early and visited the Aquarium.  I let him choose something special and for three years in a row, that's been his choice.  It wasn't too busy and we had a wonderful time.  Then, we walked to the North End, grabbing a hot dog on the way, got pastry and gelato, and took the T to MGH.

It was nice to see the team at MGH.  It's especially nice to see how relaxed Max is there, even if he didn't really talk to people (as he tends to do with new people or people he doesn't see often).  It took a while for Dr. Ebb to get him to open up, but when Dr. Ebb asked about Minecraft, Max was happy to tell him everything about it.  Dr. Ebb said he looked and sounded great and barring any surprises in the blood tests, we could go another year.  We did talk about the leg pain Max often gets at night, and he ran chemistry labs to see if anything was abnormal with his magnesium, calcium, or potassium.

We headed back to the train as soon as the blood draw was done, but Dr. Ebb called when we were almost home.  His counts were great.  His white count was 5.1, with an ANC of over 2K.  His platelets were 171 and his Hematocrit was 37.5, the highest it has ever been since we started testing.  His retic count (baby red cells) was on the low end of normal, but still in the normal range and based on the hematocrit, his body is obviously making red cells so Dr. Ebb was unconcerned.  The chemistry labs were all normal, too, though his potassium level was on the low end of normal so he suggested eating more bananas but that was about it.  Nice and boring results, just like we like.

We will see them again July 1st of next year.