We mentioned in prior posts about Trevor's 'broken waist' ... well a few weeks ago on a Friday before Trevor's first baseball practice he stood up and announced he had a broken waist and pointed and rubbed along his waistline. He is such a smart kid. A few minutes later he headed to the bathroom and needless-to-say we weren't going to baseball practice. Poor guy had diarrhea. Sorry if that's TMI! But it was off an on all weekend. Nothing really on Monday or Tuesday but on Wednesday Mommy got a call from school that he had 'broken waist' at school and wanted to come home. Sara got the call just as she was walking into her scheduled massage which she would have left but Papa John said he would go get him (thank you!!!). Mommy brought him into the doctor that afternoon and said that there is a stomach bug going around but if the diarrhea continued for 2 weeks to follow back up. Well his broken waist continued off and on for the 2 weeks along with some interesting worm-like creatures in his stools so his pediatrician ordered labs. Mommy had the privilege of collecting that to fill 4 containers but luckily Trevor did a great job. She was so proud! It took a few days for the labs to come back but amazingly everything came back clear! His guess is that it is Giardia which is common in daycare and school settings and that it left T's body on his own which happens. We were worried about not being able to go to Mexico in a few weeks with the Hillins after talking to our sister-in-law's brother who is a GI doctor but looks like we got best case and not worst case with this. YAY!
Let's see, Ashley's lump though is not going away on its own like we hoped so her pediatrician ordered an ultrasound of it. Mommy thought no problem. She's had blood taken on a few occasions without issue so an ultrasound should be just as easy. Forget that!!! Diva had her own plan. She was all smiles until the radiologist said she had to lay down on the table next to me. No way...kicking, screaming, hitting, you name it Ashley did it. For 20 long minutes. It was awful. Eventually Mommy held her a certain way and a nurse came in and held her legs and somehow through screaming and tears the radiologist got what she needed. Ugh. Mommy planned to take her to school after the appt but Ashley said 'home, ni-ni' and she wasn't kidding. She fell asleep in the car. Clearly wore herself out from screaming because it was only 11am! She transferred to her crib and slept another 2 hours. Mommy needed a drink after that. Jeepers!
Luckily those results came back same day and the pediatrician called to say that it was what he suspected...dried blood. However, Daddy wanted to be super sure that it wasn't something else and wanted bloodwork done. The doctor said that really wasn't necessary given that she has no other symptoms and that we'd be putting her through unnecessary pain but Mommy told him she is a champ at getting blood drawn. Well what a mistake that was!! So last Friday we (as in Mommy, Trevor and Ashley) headed back to the lab and once again Diva had a complete fit. And Trevor was trying to help but definitely not helping. Thankfully the lab is awesome and we were done in 5 minutes. Not sure anyone in the waiting area wanted to have blood drawn after hearing her but oh well. The funny part is that after it was done, she was so out of it that she just laid down in the middle of the room and kicked and screamed. Did she not realize we could leave and go home? Ugh. Still crying in the car! Double ugh.
But she had been through a lot so Mommy gave her extra cuddles before nap and all was well again.
And now we got the results back of her CBC and yep all was perfect. The pediatrician was right that we went through all that for nothing. Back to listening to doctors ;-)
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