a very scary week - Real Mum story on MoM

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last week was one of the scariest of my life, My 11 month old son came out in heaps of bruises, so we rushed him the doc who ordered blood tests straight away. HIs platelet levels came back at 39, (they should be around 200) He was rushed to our major hospital 700 kms away and admitted to the oncology/haematology ward for further testing and monitoring. He had repeat blood tests over the next few days and has been officially diagnosed with ITP or Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura. This should resolve by itself in the next 6 weeks. We are now home from hospital and he is having weekly blood tests to monitor his platelets and white/red blood counts. It surely was such a scary time, but we have been blessed with the best outcome

Posted by katith21, 23rd October 2013

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- - Carolineb said
  - 28 Oct 2015
    9:17 pm
I hope your son is doing a lot better now.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 25 Oct 2015
    4:08 pm
My goodness, what a scary start to parenthood

- - mrsgreen12 said
  - 11 May 2015
    4:24 pm
wow as a mum i couldnt imagine going through that, not knowing|!
very scary
best wishes

- - mom57522 said
  - 08 Jan 2015
    9:32 pm
That would have been a terrifying experience!

- - sanjipanj said
  - 23 Oct 2013
    11:10 pm
I can only imagine how scary it would have been, I hope everything turns out for the best. I remember how scared I was when my 14 month old son he is older now, was admitted to hospital as he had severe tonsillitis, one more night & he wouldn’t have made it, so scary

- - katith21 said
  - 23 Oct 2013
    10:00 pm
it was a scary time, and we are keeping our fingers crossed for good results in the future

- - liz007 said
  - 23 Oct 2013
    1:45 pm
Omg. I would of been scared also. Thank god you got it now well done.