Luke had his first bi-weekly blood test on Thursday. Sean was able to bring him this time because he is working afternoons. Sean reported that Luke was very strong and brave, and only cried a little. He has come a long way from having to be restrained due to kicking and screaming. The blood test had very peculiar findings. The nephrologist called the next day and said, "the Prograf is non-detectable, believe it or not, Luke must be metabolizing it very quickly." So now we will have to up the dose, and I am concerned that the side effects will now rear their ugly heads. It has been three days of the higher dose and Luke has vomited once. We are not sure if this was from another drop in the Prednisone or the higher dosage of the Prograf. All in all he is doing fine.
Tomorrow Sean is bringing Luke to get a new gold fish. We lost our last fish when we first moved to the new house. Since Luke has been asking again about the empty fish bowl we decided he could finally get another one. This morning Luke informed me that the fish's name will be "cold."
Please pray for Luke to be brave and continue to breeze through whatever may come next.
I love the name Cold! So funny :)
ReplyDeleteawwww so cute. carter named his fish "pumpkin pie". they really know how to pick the names, dont they? I keep thinking of Luke...and send positive thoughts for a speeeeeedy recovery....
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I'm glad that he's being so brave and he should be proud to have a strong mother like you. How did he come up with cold? that is sooo cute. There is a cool Pirates of the Carribean fish bowl accessory I saw at PetCo.
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