Dexter Lawrence Authentic Jersey  September 28, 2010

We started today with an endocrine test, this test is done to see if Baby Nicholas growth hormones were affected from his surgery. These tests were 2 1/2 hours long and 4 different draws of blood while ever 30 minutes they pump different hormones into him to test his levels. They tested his growth hormone and they told us anything above 10 is considered good, Nicholas was 26. They tested his stress hormone, which I didn't even know we had- I told the nurse boy I wish I didn't have that hormone! (LOL) Anything 8 and up was good ant Nicholas was at 10. So they are certain that neither hormone has been affected from the surgery or from chemo.

We had labs done today and his ANC is 800 and his platelets were at 54, that was low for him to have his procedures so they transfused him. We needed to wait until they cleared and they did more labs to make sure he was above 100. His labs were 181 so now we are in the safe zone for his fiducials tomorrow.

Dear God,

Please bless our platelet donor today, whomever the person was that sat in a chair for hours to give this precious gift to our boy. Please watch over our little man tomorrow during this procedure , let it go smoothly and quickly.

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