Life IS like a roller coaster, especially when you have child with ITP. Yesterday was one of those long adventure days. Corbyn, our 13 yr old son, has ITP.

To sum our day up:

7am- woke the kids to get ready for church:
  • about this same time Corbyn passes out, falls backwards and splits his head open spattering blood all through the boys room
  • 911 is called as Mom and Dad work to place pressure on his to control the bleeding using gauze and black tea bags

7:30- Ambulance and police arrive to help assess the situation
  • EMT’s are filled on what happened, then they prepare Corbyn for ambulance transport
  • Mom rapidly finds socks, grabs credit card, driver’s license, and military ID (yet tosses purse with cash back on the bed)
  • Dad dresses Ava (Mom’s service dog) to leave with Mom and we load up in the ambulance with Corbyn.
  • Suddenly while in route Mom realizes Ava has no treats, had no breakfast, no play time, no proper potty time, and all toys are at home
  • Dad later meets us at the local ER with portable water bowl, food and treats for Ava.

After triage, a CT-scan, phone consult, plans made to transport Corbyn vio another ambulance ride to Johns Hopkins Children’s ER for neuro-trauma eval. CT-scan revealed a posteried lesion on the T1. The fracture that was seen is one of those fractures that will heal on its own and will not affect anything. While at JHCC-ER, Corbyn was diagnosed with syncope, neurocardiogenic, refractive immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and a head laceration.

Well we knew about the refractive thrombocytopenic purpura, and the cut on his head. LOL due to the cut his clothes were soaking with blood and the floor looked like a crime scene. The ITP… again we know about that, as he was diagnosed November 24, 2007. Oh, today we found out his platelets are up again!!!

This saved him from severe injury for sure. Today his counts were 27k!!!! The gash in his head required 4 staples. Finally around 4-4:30pm his head stopped bleeding and oozing. Yes, his head took nearly 10 hours to stop bleeding and oozing but it finally stopped.

The original plans leaving the local ER was to get Corbyn into the JHCC neuro-trauma ER with admission to the neuro-PICU ASAP if needed. I am so glad we did not have to go there. Needless to say, today has been a very long and exhausting day…

We are home and he is still sleeping. Coming home after a day like yesterday was needed. Especially for his siblings.