Hello everyone! We are doing great! I absolutely missed my target of updating you after Austin's iron infusions. My apologies. I will lead with they were uneventful, just how we like it! For the first visit, we met with both Dr. Goubeaux and the nurse practitioner, Amy. They were both wonderful! They were very efficient. We arrived, were screened and immediately went back to his room. It was a little strange because we were in the Hematology/Oncology/Blood disorders Clinic so the rooms are not typical clinic rooms, it's more like a small hospital unit. They wanted to do a study to see if he was absorbing any of his enteral iron (the iron we put through his g-tube), so they drew labs and gave him a large dose (a little over 3 times what he normally gets). About 10 minutes after they gave it to him he began dry heaving and looked as if he was going to throw up. He did not, but was clearly uncomfortable. It was nice the nurse and Amy were both in the room to see. We
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