The Conner Chronicles

My poor sweet little Conner hasn't been feeling too well lately but hopefully things are turning around for him!

This summer he would randomly wake up with a fever with no other symptoms and sometimes the fever would be gone in a few hours but other times it would last several days.  We never went to the doctor because I hate the doctor! It seems like every time we go they always say its just a viral infection and to treat the symptoms and give Motrin and Tylenol.  A few weeks ago, however, I had enough and took him in to see what was going on.

He had enlarged lymph nodes and a fever plus his blood tests came back with a low white blood cell count and low platelet count.  We were told to keep a "fever diary" and to come back in two weeks for another blood test or sooner if his lymph nodes grew larger.  It was a really nerve-wracking two weeks.  But at our check up all went fine and his counts were back to normal!

Then two days later we were back! This time he did a series of tests and his blood work came back too high so we left with antibiotics and instructions to come in if things worsened or didn't get better.

And of course, we were back on Monday!  This time with a double ear infection and more antibiotics.  Some of his tests from the week before took a while to process and I had not heard the results yet.  We did get the results and if I understand correctly they weren't necessarily bad but not really good either so when he gets healthy we will have to go back and redo that test.

He has been so sad because he has missed "school" and church and lots of other fun stuff!  I am not really writing all this for your sympathy but just to say that I promise if we've missed something, say all summer, "because Conner isn't feeling good" then I want you to know we were telling the truth!!  For instance, he acts fine most days and someone at church told me and Mason that they hoped Conner felt better and Mason looked at them like they were crazy and said "Baby is not sick!" but really he has been.

And if you have a few spare seconds say a prayer for Conner! He has been such a super trooper.  He has had his finger pricked and blood taken out of his arm and been looked at and poked at and he hasn't ever cried at the doctor yet.  He is hanging in there strong!