one day left to live series - 7 months and 10 days

So we had another visitor and Sripathi is catching up with his Iron requirements while experimenting with new food. And look here my baby is cutting his first tooth. yippieee.

Yesterday our friends Sambi, Vinotha and their little saint Pranav came over to meet us once before they leave to Tampa for good. Now my reasons to visit Tampa is just getting stronger.
Pranav must be 3 and a half now and a very daddy loving kid. He loves to chant the maha mantra and adores Aravind during the satsangs. We'll miss him and the family during the satsangs. But I think it would be a really fine idea to drive down once a month to Tampa to have satsangs with new friends there.

So Vinotha brought Sripathi a cute little toy called the lullaby glowworm. Seems to have become Sripathi's favorite the first time he heard and saw the glowing face of the worm. We had a nice chat discussing parenting in general.

So what is Sripathi eating these days? He's getting this close to liking the Alimentum formula. Progressed from 2 ounces to 3 ounces today. While that sounds good there is more on his plate these days. I introduced rice cereal yesterday and he seems to like it, more so because i mixed it with breast milk. Apart from that we added banana to his stage one food list.

Okay there is more good news, we had a scheduled appointment with the Hematologist today and Sripathi had another blood work done. This one was to decide if he is improving with the new iron supplement in his diet or would he require further invasive tests performed to diagnose issues with his critically low levels of hemoglobin. So Dr.H was happy when he entered the exam room to inform us that Sripathi seems to be improving with the iron. His hemo levels have increased to 6.8 form 5.5. Though its still critically low (anything less than 8 is not acceptable) but what he was looking for is some improvement which is what Sripathi's blood work revealed. Further tests to find the Reticocytes from the same blood samples will be performed at Florida Hospital and we'll hear about the same during our next office visit with Dr.H next Tuesday.

Miss.Susan, yes a new therapist to work on Sripathi's vision will be here on Friday to evaluate him. Hmm.. hope we are getting somewhere closer to the light at the end of this tunnel.