What should have been a quick doctor's appointment, maybe take some blood or at the very least come back another day for another appointment turned into a crazy day! At least Sean got to finally see a doctor for this strange nausea/vomiting thing though.
This morning he had his doctor's appointment on base with the military clinic. When I described Sean's symptoms (throwing up in the morning, no other "sickness" symptoms, etc) the doc was truely baffled. He said the first thing that comes to mind, since Sean mentions "yucky tasting burps", esp the morning after a spaghetti meal, is acid reflux. He prescribed some Zantac (antacid stuff) for him but also put in a referral for him to see a specialist in town. So I head over to Tricare, they handle all the stuff to get our doc in town since they can speak the language, and she comes out and says you need to go over to the hospital right now. They want to see him right now in case it's something serious. I'm totally not prepared for this! I dont even have his booster seat in the car (the school is literally next door to the clinic, so I just walked him over). Thankfully Dennis was on that same base today and his car had the boosters in it. So I drove over to where his car was parked (with Sean just buckled in) and grabbed the booster and away to the hospital we go.
The parking at this hospital is HORRID and the spaces... well let's just say they're not made for American sized cars LOL. We finally get into the children's hospital (kinderklink) and see the doctor there. He decides that he doesnt want Sean to take the Zantac and he wants him to wait so he can run tests on him. One of the tests being an MRI *gasp*. I have 2 appointments set up to bring him in next week (Mar 6 and 9th) and they're going to do tolerance tests on his tummy - he's going to drink some strange drink - different one each day - and then they will do their tests. The MRI hasnt been set up yet. I'm definitely going to need Dennis's help with that one. Sean will have to be sedated for it and he will have to stay overnight. The doctor said that he wants to do an MRI because sometimes vomiting in the morning is a lone symptom you might see if someone has a brain tumor............ a WHAT?!!? He says that it's unlikely but still, we should check to be sure. SIGH! If it's not one that's got me worrying, it's the another...
By the time we were all done there, it was after 1pm and poor Sean was starving for lunch so I took him over to the PX and got him some Pizza Hut. Now he's back home playing his Lego StarWars video game. haha! What a day!!!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Quick post
Just a quick post to let you know we're still here!It's been a busy couple of weeks. We just had Dennis's family come out and visit. We all had a wonderful time! I'm so glad we got to share some of Germany with them... not to mention introducing Elizabeth! ;)
We're all doing great here. I'm feeling much better from my last post- thank you all for your encouraging words and help! A friend sent me a wonderful website that I have been devouring ever since. It's called aboverubies.org, if you're a mother, grandmother, friend of a mother or eventually want to me a mother, I HIGHLY recommend this site. It has been such a comfort to me and an encouragement.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Worry...
There's a message board I have been reading since I was pregnant, I mostly just read since it's a very large group, but all of us had due dates in the month of Dec 08. Within the last 2 weeks or so there have been 3 babies that have died, two of them were from SIDS. Maybe it's post-partum-whatever but I am going insane with worry!
For the first time ever, Ella's fallen asleep and stayed asleep without being in the swing or in my arms. Of course I dont get to enjoy it at all, I keep going over to check if she's breathing every few minutes. It's just not fair, this SIDS! You can follow all the "rules" they say to follow, but there's nothing for sure that you can do to prevent it.
I dont want to hear anything or read any more about SIDS! I wish I could just remove myself from the internet. I've already removed myself from that message board for fear of bringing up the page and seeing yet another loss.
Please say a prayer for those families that lost... and maybe a small prayer of protection for ours and other families with babies.
For the first time ever, Ella's fallen asleep and stayed asleep without being in the swing or in my arms. Of course I dont get to enjoy it at all, I keep going over to check if she's breathing every few minutes. It's just not fair, this SIDS! You can follow all the "rules" they say to follow, but there's nothing for sure that you can do to prevent it.
I dont want to hear anything or read any more about SIDS! I wish I could just remove myself from the internet. I've already removed myself from that message board for fear of bringing up the page and seeing yet another loss.
Please say a prayer for those families that lost... and maybe a small prayer of protection for ours and other families with babies.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Catching up...
I know I havent been very good at keeping this up the past few weeks but here's a quick "catch-up" so you know what's going on in the ol' household.
Elizabeth is now 6weeks old and is smack dab in the middle of a growth spurt, which means all she wants to do is eat eat eat. She's doing really well though. She smiles all the time now and even has this little cough laugh she does when she gets excited.
Mommy, on the other hand, feels like she's losing her mind. I think I've been doing too much reading on the internet about SIDS. I'm going crazy with worry about it. What can you do but pray and hope that God keeps her protected from that awful.... whatever it is.
Speaking of worry... Sean has been getting sick off and on for the past few months. I've mentioned it before, about him waking up in the morning and just being sick to his stomach but he's not sick, no fever, no tiredness or general sickness other than vomiting. He had a problem similar to this when he was little, if he would fall asleep before getting dinner the next morning he would throw up. I took him to the doctor (back then) and she said it was allergies - post nasal drip - and gave me Zantac. But NOW, he's waking up in the morning, had plenty to eat the night before, and is getting sick. We thought it was a wierd stomach flu at first, then when it continued, we tried changing his foods - making sure he didnt have too much sugar at night. We also tried making sure his meals were more well rounded but still he's been getting up in the morning - not always, but enough to worry us - feeling nauseous and eventually getting sick. So finally, we decided, he needs to see a doctor, there's something wrong here. We got an appointment for last week, got a late start heading into the appointment and (you're not going to believe this) the clinic CANCELS out appointment because we were more than 5mins late!!! Furious!!!!!! Parking is HORRID on this base, there's never anywhere to park, so Dennis dropped Sean and I off so he could drive around and find a spot. I came out of the clinic to tell him they cancelled the appointment so he took Sean in and told me to drive and find a spot. Of course the poor low ranking guy behind the desk couldnt do anything about recovering Sean's appointment. The best they could do for us was have Dennis call the nurse advice line (a 24hour phone line tricare offers) and tell us to reschedule. Even the nurse on the other side of the line thought it was rediculous that they cancelled our appointment. She ran Dennis through some questions about Sean and pretty much couldnt come up with any reason why this might be happening but we should get him to see a doctor (yah, thanks).
She said, maybe that it's stress induced. I dont know, maybe, he is a stress monster. He'll come downstairs after he's sent to bed and come up with some crazy things he's worried about. Like the other night he came down worrying that he wasnt going to get all his homework done by Sunday (first time the teacher gave them homework over a weekend) and that was on Friday, he was worrying. Or another one, one night on the way home we saw a police car in town pulled off to the side with his blue lights on. Sean came downstairs worrying about burglars a few nights later and we asked him where this was coming from, he mentioned seeing the police car. His imagination just explodes everything. He also has been having night terrors again. He really started having those while in Maryland but now they have graduated that he'll be fully asleep get up out of bed and come downstairs looking for us screaming and crying. We just have to sit with him until he finally wakes up on his own. That scares me that he wanders around the house now, I worry about him going outside, so we put the chain lock on the door now. I just dont know what to do with our poor boy. Writing this all out makes me think, hmm maybe his sickness is stress induced. I just dont know how to make it better for him.
Elizabeth is now 6weeks old and is smack dab in the middle of a growth spurt, which means all she wants to do is eat eat eat. She's doing really well though. She smiles all the time now and even has this little cough laugh she does when she gets excited.
Mommy, on the other hand, feels like she's losing her mind. I think I've been doing too much reading on the internet about SIDS. I'm going crazy with worry about it. What can you do but pray and hope that God keeps her protected from that awful.... whatever it is.
Speaking of worry... Sean has been getting sick off and on for the past few months. I've mentioned it before, about him waking up in the morning and just being sick to his stomach but he's not sick, no fever, no tiredness or general sickness other than vomiting. He had a problem similar to this when he was little, if he would fall asleep before getting dinner the next morning he would throw up. I took him to the doctor (back then) and she said it was allergies - post nasal drip - and gave me Zantac. But NOW, he's waking up in the morning, had plenty to eat the night before, and is getting sick. We thought it was a wierd stomach flu at first, then when it continued, we tried changing his foods - making sure he didnt have too much sugar at night. We also tried making sure his meals were more well rounded but still he's been getting up in the morning - not always, but enough to worry us - feeling nauseous and eventually getting sick. So finally, we decided, he needs to see a doctor, there's something wrong here. We got an appointment for last week, got a late start heading into the appointment and (you're not going to believe this) the clinic CANCELS out appointment because we were more than 5mins late!!! Furious!!!!!! Parking is HORRID on this base, there's never anywhere to park, so Dennis dropped Sean and I off so he could drive around and find a spot. I came out of the clinic to tell him they cancelled the appointment so he took Sean in and told me to drive and find a spot. Of course the poor low ranking guy behind the desk couldnt do anything about recovering Sean's appointment. The best they could do for us was have Dennis call the nurse advice line (a 24hour phone line tricare offers) and tell us to reschedule. Even the nurse on the other side of the line thought it was rediculous that they cancelled our appointment. She ran Dennis through some questions about Sean and pretty much couldnt come up with any reason why this might be happening but we should get him to see a doctor (yah, thanks).
She said, maybe that it's stress induced. I dont know, maybe, he is a stress monster. He'll come downstairs after he's sent to bed and come up with some crazy things he's worried about. Like the other night he came down worrying that he wasnt going to get all his homework done by Sunday (first time the teacher gave them homework over a weekend) and that was on Friday, he was worrying. Or another one, one night on the way home we saw a police car in town pulled off to the side with his blue lights on. Sean came downstairs worrying about burglars a few nights later and we asked him where this was coming from, he mentioned seeing the police car. His imagination just explodes everything. He also has been having night terrors again. He really started having those while in Maryland but now they have graduated that he'll be fully asleep get up out of bed and come downstairs looking for us screaming and crying. We just have to sit with him until he finally wakes up on his own. That scares me that he wanders around the house now, I worry about him going outside, so we put the chain lock on the door now. I just dont know what to do with our poor boy. Writing this all out makes me think, hmm maybe his sickness is stress induced. I just dont know how to make it better for him.
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