Daily writing prompts from June 9th, 2008 to December 31st, 2022
Tuesday May 21st, 2019
The exercise: Write two haiku about: invisible scars. Mine: These scars can't be seen By the naked eye - they lie Far beneath my skin Okay, explanation in comments, hold on a minute.
So Saturday morning Miles almost but didn't quite pass out. It freaked us out enough to call an ambulance, and they took him to the hospital in Oliver. They were about ready to send us home when they did a blood test to make sure he was okay.
Turns out, he was severely anemic. So off we went to Penticton to see the pediatrician in emergency. Couple more blood tests and a whole lot of waiting around later, they came back with a tentative diagnosis of something that is short term and leaves no lasting issues. I'm not going to give you the medical term, as it is Transient *insert some huge word that can't possibly be a word here* of Childhood.
We're not out of the woods quite yet. He's got a follow up appointment on Thursday, before which we get to have his blood taken again. The expectation is that this test will show that his red blood cell count is increasing, which would confirm this best-case-possible diagnosis.
We left home at 9 on Saturday morning and didn't return until 5pm. Needless to say, the experience brought back unpleasant memories of our experiences with Max's mystery illness when he was little.
Thankfully at this point, it's looking like this should be resolved in much quicker fashion.
An explanation in the comments? This suggests an horrific picture or two.... Sadly I haven't seen your comment yet, but I can always post again afterwards :) I really like your haiku, and it puts me in mind of Nieves. (If you have Spotify find the album, Exist and Expire, and listen to Strangers are people you don't hate yet and you'll see the link)
Invisible scars These scars cover my skin: my back, hands, face, legs and heart. And you took part,
You took centre-stage In making them. They're invis- -ible now I'm blind.
Well, I'm glad there are no gruesome pictures, though I'm slightly disappointed you're not telling me the medical names of these things :) Anaemia, thankfully, is very treatable (and now you tell him that the doctor insists he eats broccoli and cabbage in order to get enough iron!) so I'm glad it's (relatively) benign like this. It sounds like the blood test was a spark of luck, though to be honest I think you'd have quickly spotted him being pale and listless after the hospital trip anyway. So, well done on encountering another mystery childhood ailment, and beating it! Looks like you need a third child after all so you can carry on this winning streak ;-)
Yeah, I wish it was just a matter of getting him to eat iron rich foods. I'm sure that helps, but it's mostly a waiting game for his body to kick back into producing the red blood cells.
Thankfully he's got his energy back after the transfusion and is currently acting like his usual self and not suffering any ill effects. Hopefully the next blood test is equally encouraging.
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So Saturday morning Miles almost but didn't quite pass out. It freaked us out enough to call an ambulance, and they took him to the hospital in Oliver. They were about ready to send us home when they did a blood test to make sure he was okay.
Turns out, he was severely anemic. So off we went to Penticton to see the pediatrician in emergency. Couple more blood tests and a whole lot of waiting around later, they came back with a tentative diagnosis of something that is short term and leaves no lasting issues. I'm not going to give you the medical term, as it is Transient *insert some huge word that can't possibly be a word here* of Childhood.
We're not out of the woods quite yet. He's got a follow up appointment on Thursday, before which we get to have his blood taken again. The expectation is that this test will show that his red blood cell count is increasing, which would confirm this best-case-possible diagnosis.
We left home at 9 on Saturday morning and didn't return until 5pm. Needless to say, the experience brought back unpleasant memories of our experiences with Max's mystery illness when he was little.
Thankfully at this point, it's looking like this should be resolved in much quicker fashion.
An explanation in the comments? This suggests an horrific picture or two.... Sadly I haven't seen your comment yet, but I can always post again afterwards :)
I really like your haiku, and it puts me in mind of Nieves. (If you have Spotify find the album, Exist and Expire, and listen to Strangers are people you don't hate yet and you'll see the link)
Invisible scars
These scars cover my
skin: my back, hands, face, legs and
heart. And you took part,
You took centre-stage
In making them. They're invis-
-ible now I'm blind.
Well, I'm glad there are no gruesome pictures, though I'm slightly disappointed you're not telling me the medical names of these things :) Anaemia, thankfully, is very treatable (and now you tell him that the doctor insists he eats broccoli and cabbage in order to get enough iron!) so I'm glad it's (relatively) benign like this.
It sounds like the blood test was a spark of luck, though to be honest I think you'd have quickly spotted him being pale and listless after the hospital trip anyway.
So, well done on encountering another mystery childhood ailment, and beating it! Looks like you need a third child after all so you can carry on this winning streak ;-)
Greg - really like your haiku.
Yeah, I wish it was just a matter of getting him to eat iron rich foods. I'm sure that helps, but it's mostly a waiting game for his body to kick back into producing the red blood cells.
Thankfully he's got his energy back after the transfusion and is currently acting like his usual self and not suffering any ill effects. Hopefully the next blood test is equally encouraging.
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