The blood draw

I finally remembered to get Kaydee up to PCMC for the blood draw. After we got home from the MRI, the doctor called and said she'd sent the order for the blood draw to the lab and it would be waiting for us at our convenience. So we headed up there in November expecting it to be there. Well, it wasn't. We waited and waited and the people in the lab looked and looked for it and called the doctor and the clinic with no results. I tried calling the doctor too and knew if I left a message, we could be waiting all day. I tried to get Kaydee to leave, but she was having too much fun with the toys in the waiting room. Then a tech came out and said "whoever you talked to, it worked." They had just got a call from the clinic. Funny thing is, I didn't speak with anyone. Then we waited another half hour for them to fax the order over.

We went back into the draw room and had Kaydee sit on my lap. He prepped her arm while a CLS (Child Life Specialist) talked to Kaydee. They are there to help kids through tough things like treatments and tests. And then the poke, followed by screaming. The CLS tried getting Kaydee's attention, but she was staring at the needle in her arm. The CLS started blowing bubbles and Kaydee turned to them and started giggling, then looked at her arm and screamed and back at the bubbles and giggled. Her head kept going back and forth like watching a tennis match with alternate screams and giggles. Funny girl. And then she was fine after they put the sparkly bandaid on her.

This blood draw was for a metabolic screening. I haven't heard any results yet, but I'm sure it takes awhile for this kind of test so I'm giving it time. Plus, they are probably not in the office this week, so we'll check with them after New Year's day.