Matthew has been having back problems for the past two weeks and has gone to the chiropractor a few times for the pain. On Friday night around 9:30PM, Matthew was rolling around in pain on the living room floor, so my dad took him to the emergency room at Mercy Gilbert. In the ER, they drew his blood and discovered that his platelets were very low, so they did an xray and a CAT scan found a large mass by his heart.
Gilbert Mercy sent him to the Phoenix Children's Hospital in Phoenix, where he spent the night in the ICU. The mass by his heart is the size of a tennis ball and is displacing the veins that pump blood into his heart. It's not serious enough that it is messing with his heart, but it will cause problems if it grows any larger.
This is a picture of Matthew covered in ice packs to help his (what we thought was) muscle pain, on the Tuesday before he went to the ER:
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