Coen has been really sick for 6 days now. Last Tuesday we went to the ped. for an ear check up. His ears were not infected, but had fluid behind them, which was not a good sign that things were clearing up. So, we got a referal to an ENT for today. Wednesday we got up like normal and went to work/babysitter. Around 9 my sitter called and said that Coen had thrown up 3 times. I figured that his ears had gotten worse, called the dr. and got an antibiotic to start on for the ears. Greg went and got him. He proceeded to throw up all day. Thursday, my sister came down to keep him so we could work-well that didn't go over to well. She picked me up for lunch and when I went to get him from his seat he threw up all over me, the carseat and the car. She said that was throw up number 3 for the morning. We called the dr. and he saw Coen. Ears were good, stomach bug. Friday and Saturday were about the same, lots of throw up and no sleep. Saturday we had 103 fever all day. Then came Sunday. Coen was at the point that his eyes were sunken in and he was starting to not drool-so off to the ER we went around 8 PM.
We get to Covenant Children's ER, where we have brought our kids many times before for fever, wheezing, bumps on the head etc. First they weight the little guy and he has lost almost 2lbs since the Tuesday before. So, we get in a room. The ER dr(who is a ped. in town and I will give the name if you need to know) walkes into our room giggling-not joking. First thing he said was-your child is not dehydrated, you have been into contact with your Dr. in the past few days. All I will do is give him 1 ounce of pedialyte and send him home. Mind you he is laughing at us (I am not exagerating). So, I get upset b/c my child obviously has a problem. Greg told him we were just going to leave, we didn't need his ounce of pedialyte. So, he walkes out and comes back a few minutes later. By this time Greg had taken Avry out b/c mommy was a little bit mad. The Dr. walkes in and was like well I called the Dr. on call for Dr. Brodbeck and she wants to just admit him and Dr. Brodbeck can deal with you in the morning. We again tried to leave but he pulled the whole leaving against medical advice thing-and insurance won't cover if you leave against medical advice. So he sucked us in-bud God was working. So, they admitted us, started an IV (pure torture for a baby), and did an u/s of his belly. Sent us to a room and then we found out the orders were no food at all! Seriously? no food? nothing? Last night was awfull! So, Dr. B came in this morning and said he had already heard about our experience. I have been told my a couple of people that the ER dr. has no bedside manner. I would not take my dog to this man! Dr. B did an Upper GI and some blood work. We found out that Coen does have a couple of problems. 1. he has reflux, which is a preemie thing. 2. his stomach isn't digesting as quickly as it should. So, they put us on Reglan and Zantac which he will take aggresively 2x a day until we pull out of this stuff. It is more an issue of his stomach developing all the way. I have learned with my preemies that you never know what might creep up on you-
Satan was working in me last night with my attitude, but God was working harder! I am so thankfull that we got admitted. We would have just kept dealing with this problem for a long time. Coen is sleeping peacefully in his jail bed next to me and I know that the nights to come will be much more peacefull. We should go home tomorrow if he continues to hold fluids down well.
Thank you for all your prayers and keep on praying that we get completly well. I will post pics of Coen when I get home!
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