So Jeremy and I went to bleeder camp two weeks ago (yay Camp Hot-to-Clot!!!!) and I finally tried sticking him for the first time (venipuncture, that is). And then that evening he stuck himself for the first time! He had to dig a little, but he finally got it! Now he's ready to start practicing on a regular basis. I'm so happy - I no longer feel like such a bleeder mom failure
My mom and son were in a car accident in the middle of April, and things have been a little crazy ever since. Luckily Jeremy wasn't seriously injured, but it was definitely scary getting that phone call. Some woman was nice enough to stop and let him use her cell, and while he was telling me how he was doing and about my mom injuring her arm, it suddenly occurred to me - "TELL THEM YOU HAVE A SEVERE BLEEDING DISORDER!!!!!" I yelled. Luckily my best friend's mom was one of the EMTs on ...
My son Jeremy will turn 13 next month. I'm not sure which part of that fact freaks me out the most, but one thing I do know for certain is that things have turned out a lot better than I thought they ever would way back in the beginning, almost 13 years ago. I have to say, health-wise he is doing pretty good (a pretty sharp contrast to all the terrible things I had once imagined for him). Always, I'm gonna be the parent of a teenager soon. God, I'm old.
Austin had gotten to the point where he was bleeding 2-5 times a day and couldn't go to school. His local ENT said it couldn't be cauterized anymore and referred us to an ENT in Nashville that did more extensive work, including a septal dermoplasty. The ENT in Nashville evaluated Austin and did a septoplasty and he's recovered so well! His thinking was that by completely separating the tissue from the bone and cartilage, and then packing it with clotting material before putting the tissue back, ...
My son has been dealing with what I thought was a muscle bleed for a little over a week now. Turns out that whatever bleeding may have occurred is now resolved (thanks to infusing the living crap out of him), but the pain from the bleed was at some point replaced with the pain of keeping the muscle immobilized for too long. Who knew you could have such severe pain from keeping an injury still for too long? Anyways, I took him into the HTC last week, and on our way out after finishing up, my son's ...
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