A Visit to Physician's Clinic

Last night was no ordinary night around here. No putting Christian to bed at 8, the girls to bed at 8:30, sit around and watch TV til Matt and I go to bed. No, we were off trying to figure our a spot on Christian's leg.

Around 7:30, Christian was getting really tired and rubbing his eyes, so I decided to put him to bed. He was up at 7 am and he's been sleeping all night, so why not? I went upstairs to change his diaper and put his pajamas on and saw this on the back of his right thigh.

It looked like a huge bruise, but his leg was a little swollen and I know it was not there at 5 pm when I changed his diaper earlier. I called for Matt to come upstairs to see what he thought. He touched it and it was really hard.

I looked at him and said, "Do you think we should take him somewhere?" He thought we should, so we looked up an Urgent Care. In the past, we have always gone to Physican Clinic's Urgent Care because we had one by our old house. They are family doctors, but they treat kids, right? Children's Hospital Urgent Care was $50 more than Physician's Clinic (7 years ago with Megan), so we found an Urgent Care close and headed there. We also go to Physician's Clinic for our pediatrician, so I thought all our information would be on file there.

I sat down, fed Christian quick, got coats together and loaded everybody up in the van and headed out. We thought about calling somebody to watch the girls, but we didn't think it would take that long and who do you call at 8 pm? So they came along for the ride.

We got to Physician's Clinic Urgent Care and they asked us "Did you call your dr. first?" I said, "No, we just got in the car and came over." She mentioned that they always tell patients of kids to go to Children's Urgent Care. We said that we didn't want to load the kids back up and drive again, so we were ok with seeing a d0ctor there.

We got called back and the nurse weighed Christian (18 pounds) and she thought it was a skin infection. Matt and I didn't think that was so bad. But then the doctor came in and said, no, it's not a skin infection. She said if it was an adult, she would think it was a blood clot, but Christian is only 7 months old. We then started thinking he was low on platelets again. I mentioned that I have ITP and he was low at birth. We thought that maybe he hit something/ somebody hit him and caused him to bruise because of low platelets. She didn't really have an answer for us. She told us that our best step would be to go to Children's Hospital and get labs drawn. Check his platelets and anything else that the doctor thought. She said she was sorry that she didn't have any more information for us.

So, back into the car we go and off to the hospital. Now it's about 8:45.