Monday, February 18, 2008
Valentine's Day.. not all roses and chocolate
Valentine's Day came and so did the snow, no school and Michael's follow up Duke appointment.
David came with us this time. Decisions needed to be made and I needed him.
Needless to say, I had already done my homework. I knew there were 3 types of treatment for Michael's condition. 1. steroids 2. WinRho injection 3. IVIG (4 hour weekly infusions x 4 weeks) I read about all of them. They all seemed to be evil but the less of the 3 evils seemed to be the Winrho injections. I had asked Dr. Schacht as a physician what he recommended and he said WinRho. I asked Dr. Randhawa as a father and he said WinRho. So WinRho was our plan. We got to the appointment and it was confirmed: Michael has ITP. It is actually rare in his case. Usually you see kids younger or older with it, but not at his age. Dr. Rosoffe explained everything in detail where David & Michael could understand it. More labs were drawn and then he got the WinRho injection. We hung around for 30 mins to make sure he wasn't going to have an allergic reaction. The side affects were explained and we were given numbers to call if he had any. Things were looking great. Michael looked good, felt good and we had a positive outlook..... We are going to play baseball!
David came with us this time. Decisions needed to be made and I needed him.
Needless to say, I had already done my homework. I knew there were 3 types of treatment for Michael's condition. 1. steroids 2. WinRho injection 3. IVIG (4 hour weekly infusions x 4 weeks) I read about all of them. They all seemed to be evil but the less of the 3 evils seemed to be the Winrho injections. I had asked Dr. Schacht as a physician what he recommended and he said WinRho. I asked Dr. Randhawa as a father and he said WinRho. So WinRho was our plan. We got to the appointment and it was confirmed: Michael has ITP. It is actually rare in his case. Usually you see kids younger or older with it, but not at his age. Dr. Rosoffe explained everything in detail where David & Michael could understand it. More labs were drawn and then he got the WinRho injection. We hung around for 30 mins to make sure he wasn't going to have an allergic reaction. The side affects were explained and we were given numbers to call if he had any. Things were looking great. Michael looked good, felt good and we had a positive outlook..... We are going to play baseball!
# posted by Christy @ 3:58 PM 
