OUCH!!!!

Well today Wyatt and Lauryn had their wellness checkups--9 mos. and 3 years respectively. Lauryn was super easy, growing, meeting all her milestones ect. Wyatt on the other hand decided he wanted to be a little more difficult. While he met all of his milestones he again barely gained any weight in the last two months. The Dr.'s didn't like that so they decided to do some blood work, take a urine and stool sample to see if there was some underlying issue or if he was just going to be like me...a runt!!! I also have to keep a food journal to chart how many calories he is taking in. (this was pre-doctor...and he still looks a little apprehensive!!)
Things went downhill fast. He of course didn't like people prodding or picking at him and he especially didn't like somebody poking him with a sharp needle. The bad part came when they had to stick him 5 different times in order to get enough blood. This little man has some killer platelets. His blood was clotting basically as soon as it hit air or even before that. The nurses could get a good vein, get the blood to start and just as soon as it would start it would clot. It was like milking blood from a turnip. Wyatt of course did not like being a pin cushion. They even had the ped oncology nurses come in and try to get a vein that would cooperate but no such luck!! Finally the Dr. came in a drew blood from his radial artery but as soon as they switched out collection syringes it clotted and was blown. Poor little guy. All the nurses felt so bad as did the Dr. But what can you do? So he got blood taken from both arms (three times) and both feet (twice). So far all the labs that have come back are normal so he might just be a runt like his mama. I don't think we needed the bruises to prove that!!

Sorry the pics are so wonderful. Wyatt was moving so much. He was having flashbacks of the blood draws, he didn't want me to hold on to nothing!!!