The last time Ben went to see his pulmonologist, about two weeks ago, he had some blood work done. The doctor explained that she wanted to see if his body has an immune deficiency that is causing him to get a lot of respiratory infections. They took three BIG vials of blood from my little guy but he didn't even make a peep about it! He was so good and just shocked the two women that were taking the blood.
Yesterday I got a call from the doctor about the results. There was some good news and some not so great news.
The good news.... Ben does not appear to have a immune deficiency problem. Yay!!!
The not so great news... He has high marker indicators of allergies. This indicates that he definitely has some allergies but we don't know what they are yet. We may not know for a couple more years! She does believe they are air born and not food allergies at this point because they are causing respiratory issues.
When we go see her in less then two weeks she will hopefully do some testing with a few of the bigger allergies. The big thing is that he has to be healthy for those! Well, let's be honest, he is rarely healthy! I will just hope and pray that he is on that day so we can try and get some answers.
I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with some of the things we may have to do in order to have a healthy environment for Ben but we will come to that when we know more. We are willing to do ANYTHING that needs to be done to help him, that's for sure!
Man, I am thankful for the fact that he does not have an immune deficiency problem! As for the allergies, we can figure that out!
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