WOW!!! What a couple of weeks. I feel as though I have been shot back into daily living today through a straw!
We all know that Matt has had a problem with vomiting. He was put on an ant-acid to help. Well two weeks ago his vomiting came to a head that we never expected. Labor day weekend Matt we thought Matt wasn't feeling good. He had more vomiting than normal. Tuesday Matt couldn't keep anything down, it went as far as
projectile vomiting and hitting the back window of a car. Tuesday night when I was driving home from work I called the doctors and they said to take him to the ER, here is where a parents worse nightmare starts. I picked up John and we went and got Matt and took him to the ER. They were packed and he was still vomiting and had a low fever. They got us in but it was slow. They were busy, the doc. came in and ordered blood tests to see what was going on but Matt was so dehydrated that they barely got any blood. They sent us home with "whatever it is it's stopped...go see his regular doctor."
I already had an
appointment Wednesday, kudos to me, for Matt to see his doctor but she was behind. After an hour of waiting I re-scheduled him for another doctor that day. Took John home, fed Ally, and went back with the kids.
We got in to see the doc. she listened to what John and I had been trying to figure out what was wrong. Me stopping breast feeding, change of formula,
thickening it, thinning it,
lacto free etc. and she said she thought it might be
Piloricstinosis.
Basically it is when the intestines are not open to the stomach.
She scheduled us for a barium swallow at the hospital the next day, Thursday, and said that if it was
Piloricstinosis that they moved fast.
Matt couldn't have
anything to eat that night after 12 and his appointment was at 9:30. We got in and they changed it to an ultrasound. Sure enough it was
Piloricstinosis and we were being sent to
Doernbecker Children's Hospital.
We got up to the hospital and they got us checked it, Matt was scheduled for surgery, but there was a problem. There were several other surgery's that had to go on and Matt was
sooooo dehydrated that they couldn't get an IV in. They poked my baby over 25 times and called the PANDA team to come in. Finally the head of one of the departments came in and was able to get one in his ankle.
They put a splint on it so he couldn't kick it out. They put 500ml in to his little body and got 40
cc's out. They had to postpone the surgery until the next day so he could re-hydrate. At noon the next day they came in and took us down. To be honest I almost didn't give them my baby. I just didn't think that this could be happening to him. My mom was there and John of course, but I didn't want to let him go. Two hours later they told us he was in recovery, I couldn't wait to see him. Once we got in there I still couldn't hold him.
We got to go back to the room and a few hours later we were able to touch him and hold him. We got to go home on Saturday afternoon.
Matt is doing well now. It is like a
completely different baby. He is so happy and
smiley and has not thrown up since. He is so happy, and we are relieved.
Ally also started school. It is
hard to believe that she is in kindergarten! Oh my gosh!!
That is what our last two weeks have been. Thank you to all that has sent their love and prayers.
'till later.
