Thanks so much for your prayers--and thanks for the prayers you would have offered had you seen the previous post before this one. :) We have a YEAH! and a boo.
So, we are home and I got a little sleep--5 hours. Much better than I was anticipating based on our events at Zeeland Community Hospital. Sometime after I wrote and kept Simon drinking his "special lemonade", the doctor came in and suggested a quick x-ray. See Simon's blood work came in great and the doc thought it'd be good to do an x-ray rather than the cat scan. The results came in.
Simon is certainly full of something! Poop. Crap. Turds. Shit. A load. Dung. (see the title of the post)
Whew! I'm a bit embarrassed about taking my kid to the emergency room, but we were all wrong. The nurses and doctor all thought it was his appendix. We all did. He pooped in the afternoon (is this too much information?) and had a fever and still had pain. . . so we went in. So in the end, I stop myself. Besides being embarrassed and thinking about the bill that will come here in about three weeks. . . I'm so grateful. Grateful that it wasn't his tumor or his appendix. That would have meant a trip to Devos Children's Hospital. More traveling. More time in the hospital. Upending our family for awhile. Any surgery is risky for our guy. Any surgery for your kid isn't great. He is fine. He is sleeping. He is charming. . . even at 1:30 in the morning.
So thanks. We are tired this morning and happy. And Simon is sleeping. . . and will hopefully spend some time on the toilet today.
3 comments:
It's always so hard to know when to take them in or not! I've had plenty of times that I've walked out knowing it was a waste of time and money. However, for those times that you do catch it, it's so good to have gone in! I hope he gets some good rest today and you manage alright throughout as well. Glad he is okay!!!
PHEW!!!
so glad to hear he's ok!
my bff just had the same thing with her daughter. hailey kept complaining on a stomach ache and kath suspected it was all in her head. "go to school. buck up. you'll be fine." all the normal things us moms say to our kiddos.
finally, she brought her in and she was 'backed up'. thankfully they figured out the problem but kath had the same thoughts you did. "when is it time to bring them in? the $$$ this is going to cost! i should have...would have..could have". so hard to know. you did the right thing!
you're a good mama. :)
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