Friday, March 13, 2009

What is Alpha Thalassemia??

Unfortunately our beloved pediatrician Dr. Ripple has closed his practice and was offered a awesome job in San Luis Obispo. Congrats Doc!! We'll miss you. We do have a new doctor the Foxes who are awesome by the way. Dr. Ripples staff is finishing up the month by releasing all of their medical records....so Gev and I went to pick them up on Wednesday...boy were we in for a big shock.
Shawna (the office manager) presented me with Shawn's and Mia's charts and with Megan's, she handed me a pamphlet with some rather upseting news. She told me that Megan had an abnormal screening on her NST (blood test) in the hospital. I think that's the worst news a parent can be told. Megan will have to be rescheduled for a blood test and that we had to contact a genetics test office. Well I can barely pronounce what Meg's condition was let alone understand what the diagnosis was. I chatted with Shawna (who we'll miss dearly as well, I've known her and she's been with the practice since Shawn was 1) for a few minutes more.
That nite I went on google to do a search. Let me just say, do not ever do this. Most of what I could find in regards to this was the worst case scenario or a reprint from a book. I broke down and didn't know what to do as I started to panic. Gev calmed me down and told me to just make an appointment with the Dr. Foxes and see what they said.

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