unleaded

last week, Q's pediatrician called because his lead levels were elevated (8) and they like it to be under 5. so they wanted to do a real venipuncture blood draw to double check. i hauled the boy out to a lab to have his blood drawn. he was a trooper. he sat on my lap and whined a bit when he saw the needle, but then he saw the sticker (band-aid) and didn't even notice that they were drawing blood. results came back and he is just fine.