Andrew's sick...

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2008

Andrew is scheduled for an ultrasound tomorrow morning at 8:45 and has a doctors appointment at 9:45. Here is the history...

Last Tuesday night he threw up projectile vomit all over the place (covering my shirt, pants, soaked through to undergarments, covering half the couch, and of course covering him). I was concerned and worried. Then on Wednesday he threw up the same type of projectile vomit large volume four times. After the second time I had called the doctor. They scheduled him to come in Thursday morning. My assumption was that he had infant reflux and would need medicine.

Thursday morning we went into the doctor and it wasn't our normal pediatrician but the one we could get into soonest. She said he either has the flu (although he never had a fever and acted fine other than throwing up after eating), reflux or pyloric stenosis. She said to play the "wait and see" game which I wasn't too comfortable with. She said we would know by Monday what it was. If he got better then it was the flu, if he got worse then it was the pyloric stenosis, if it stayed the same then it was reflux.

If it was reflux we would treat it with medication. If it was the pyloric stenosis then he would have an ultrasound to verify and then abdominal surgery to correct it. I was very scared.

I called Monday morning and told them that he is still pretty bad, but not worse like she said he would get. So they called in a prescription and said that we will know for sure by Wednesday. If he wasn't better by Wednesday it still may be this pyloric stenosis. More waiting and our regular doctor was still out of the office!

We got him the medicine and he has been throwing up even more. He is getting worse. He acts like he is in pain and uncomfortable and won't sleep well, although he is napping well now. Thank goodness! So I called the doctor this morning and we got our regular doctor to call us back, yeah! He said, "I don't see why we should be letting this little guy suffer, or you suffer through this. Let's just get an ultrasound and find out definitively and we'll know what to do." Thank goodness, a doctor who has a plan of action, no more waiting to see if he gets worse which I think is totally mean to do to anybody much less a tiny baby.

So he has the ultrasound tomorrow morning followed right away by his doctor appointment with our regular pediatrician. He said that if he has it then he will have his surgery tomorrow. If he doesn't then we will try a different medication. Either way we will get it taken care of. But I REALLY HOPE AND PRAY that it is just reflux! I really do not want my little baby to have to undergo surgery! Just the anesthesia alone at such a young age scares me!