February 27, 2012

The important thing is things are looking up.  Clayton's counts are much better and he is no longer neutropenic.  He is still at risk though until his counts continue to climb higher.  He got out of bed tonight though! Since he is in bed for a week straight, I am really trying to get him moving a little again, so I brought his Cars mat from home and we picked up more toys for him.  Anything to get him a little more playful.  I pretty much always try and bring something to put on the floor so he can get down and play (because goodness knows that me and my germ freak ways are not going to let my baby-man play on that nasty floor), but his mat seemed like the perfect thing to cheer him up right now.

We also discovered that the blood in his diaper was from three things.  First he has a virus in his bladder called a BK virus.  Most of us have this, but never show symptoms because our immune systems aren't compromised.  Since his immune system was compromised, the virus began to irritate his bladder.  Since his platelets were low, the irritated areas of his bladder were not clotting and so we were seeing blood in his diaper.  Then as his platelet count would go up and down with transfusions, he seemed to get blood clots in his bladder that then caused him some discomfort when he would urinate.  Some ripple effect there!