For those who I played with in WoW and remember me talking about my daughter, I wanted to share.
We took her to her 1 year checkup, and we told the Dr that she's been bruising very easily, small bumps and and falls cause her to have deep, dark bruises. The Dr wanted to do a CBC on her (not sure what that stands for) to see how many platelets she has. This first test showed she had 26,000.
The Dr informed us that 125,000-150,000 is normal, and anything below 20,000 is worriesome. She told us to come back in a week to have her tested again. We did so, and last week her platelets had fallen to 24,000. We were asked to come back again. After a hellish day today, involving finger pokes and tests not working, we were finally directed to go to the hospital and have blood drawn from her arm. We just got the call and her count is now down to 14,000.
We're scared of course. The Dr wasn't there when the PA called so we're going to get a call from the Dr tomorrow morning. The PA told us that we may have to take her to Children's Hospital in Omaha and see a hemotologist. Possible courses of action could be intravenous immunohemoglobin or steroids, or even a platelet transfusion if it gets really bad. They told us to take her out of daycare for tomorrow.
They think it may be from a virus that looks like a platelet so when the antibodies attack the virus they also attack the platelets. It might also be a reaction to a vaccination. They really haven't said much more than that.