Ch.16

He stood there, staring at the doctor, waiting for him to start. Waiting for this doctor to tell him what was wrong with his daughter.

"My name is Dr. Brooks. I am your daughter's doctor," he started.

"I'm Chris and this is my mother," Chris replied.

"Well, I ran all the tests for everything that I could think of. They all came back negative. So, I came to the conclusion that your daughter has a blood disease that can't be tested on. We can't run a test on that disease, but we can look at her blood to see what her red blood cell count is," the doctor explained.

"Dr. Brooks, what is wrong with my daughter?" Chris asked.

"Your daughter has a disease that many people mistake for leukemia and could lead to leukemia. She has a blood disease called Thrombocytopenia Purpura, or TCP," he answered. That was it. That was the disease and the thing that Chris wished and hoped she didn't have. One of the reasons that her mother had died those years ago.

"So, what dies this mean?" he asked the doctor.

"Well, it means that her red blood cell count drops well below than what it is supposed to be. When she had come in, she had only one mother red blood cell left in her body, trying to make up for all the cells that were killed and destroyed. There are cures for thus, but I would not recommend them," he explained. Chris understood, knowing what the treatments were, but Piper didn't. She wanted to know the reason why this doctor wasn't willing to help her granddaughter.

"Excuse me, but why can't you give her the treatments?" she asked, her anger slowly showing.

"It's not that I can't but I don't want too. These treatments consists of steroids, or pills for most likely the rest of her life, to stop her spleen from destroying the red cells. Or, even surgery to remove her spleen but we only do that if we have too. There is even the option to not do anything because this doesn't happen all the time. It will only happen once in a while. Most of the patients with this disease don't have to worry about it for over ten years since their last blood transfusion," Dr. Brooks explained. "You will be able to bring her home soon. All we have to do is let the transfusion finish," he added, directed it more to Chris than to Piper. Chris knew how to deal with this. He also knew that when she had gotten pregnant that there was a chance their two little girls could get this. It had been genetic in her family. Her great grandmother, a few of her cousins, her, and now his little girl had to deal with it. He had dealt with it with her, so now he could deal with it with his daughter. He already knew how he was going to tell her about it when she had gotten old enough to know all about the disease she had and knew how to tell his girls had this disease had helped to take their mother away and made her an angel in the sky, waiting for him when it was his time to go. He knew how to tell her all about it and how she had a good chance of passing it onto her children, even if she had gotten rid of it.

"Thank you doctor," Chris said. The doctor nodded his head, before turning around and leaving.

"Chris, you don't want him to give her the treatments. Why?" Piper asked her son. He turned around and looked at her.

"Because I already know how to deal with this. Bianca had it before she died and it was genetically passed onto my daughter. It doesn't matter if she gets the treatment or not because she will be fine. I know when to bring her here. I know all the signs and I know that my daughter is going to be ok and nothing is going to happen to her," he replied, before turning his back to her and going into the room to be with his daughter. Piper just stood there, shocked as she slowly took in what he said.

AN- this is a real disease. It can be genetically passed on in families, but not always from mother to children or father to children. It can also be passed on from first cousins to second cousins. This can also cause many people to have anemia, which is part of the reason that Bianca had died from this disease. It is kind of easy to live with, except for the part when you don't know when you have to have another blood transfusion. It was also true that it can be years to have a transfusion from the last time you had one. I know this from personal experience. The first time I had one was when I was about 4 years old and haven't had one since. Anyway, the treatments are real and some of them are dangerous, which is why I made Chris not have his daughter get them. Many pregnant women get this and it causes problems, which also happened to Bianca, and if you had read the first one, you saw that she had problems before Chris brought her to the hospital. This also had to do with the disease. Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that the disease was real and I didn't make it up. Please review.