Friday, April 6, 2007
ER visit
Colin seemed awfully cranky after coming home from the gym today. For awhile I just kept telling him to stop crying and even tried to lay him down. Well after some time passed I noticed a pattern to his behavior. He would get really irritable start crying sit down, bend over and grab his belly rock back and forth for a while then come to cuddle with me. Then it would happen again. Over and over about every 5-20 minutes. I took him to the doctor who wasn't sure what it was but concerned it might be inerssuption (the bowel telescopes into itself) but wanted me to take him home and watch him for worsening, fever, blood in the stool ect... well it didn't take long a few hours later I called Chris and told him to meet us at the ER as the episodes were coming 2-3 times in ten minutes. The whole ride to the hospital I felt like I couldn't get there quick enough, he was wailing and screaming with every episode and since he was strapped in to the car seat he would try to pull his knees up. Chris met us there and his mom came a short time later to pick up Brandon. By this time every time an episode hit he would vomit too. He hadn't eaten so it was not that gross but still....it was vomit, I am sure house keeping loved us. We get seen two hours after we get there and then within the next hour he had two xrays, an IV and blood work. Then a dose of Morphine which made us all laugh he would look around the room going "whoa, whoa" He was kinda mellow at first but then became a real chatty Cathy. Everything normal, which further leads the doc to think of interssuption, so she send us for a barium enema. Nothing. His belly pains have all but stopped at this point. So at this point we have been there for 5.5 hours, they had tried all that time to collect urine (by having this sticky backed bag attached to his peepee) and he still had not passed urine. They were pretty much ready to let us go but I wanted to wait till he peed and could eat a drink with out throwing up, so they gave us a Popsicle and crackers, he had some juice and water, and then he peed. They dipped his urine and said he was still a little dehydrated but that he had gotten plenty of fluids by this point and sent us home. Their best diagnosis? A gas bubble stuck in a bowel loop that was probably moved by the enema. Hmph... gas. So we got discharged at 12 am and got home to our beds by 1 am. I am up at 7:30 am writing this. I must be crazy.
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