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Jun. 13th, 2003 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
topazMorgan woke up at 2:30 this morning complaining of belly pain. He sat on the toilet for a while but with no helpful result. The pain got worse and worse and nothing we could think of -- gentle heat, massage, Pepto-Bismol, simethicone -- seemed to help at all. He reached the point of hysterically screaming from the pain, threw up all over the kitchen, and reported that the pain still hadn't gone away.
These were enough symptoms of appendicitis that we piled the kids in the car (where Morgan threw up again) and drove them to the emergency room. The nurse did a wonderful job of calming Morgan down, took his BP and temperature, and felt around his belly a bit. She agreed that it was consistent with appendicitis, but before running an X-ray ran a strep culture -- which came back positive. (Bit of a surprise to us -- never knew that strep could manifest itself as bellyache, nausea and vomiting, but apparently it's not uncommon.)
So they put M on a ten-day amoxycillin cruise and sent us home. We all went to bed at 6:30. The baby woke me at 10AM. Morgan got up at 11:30, bright as a button. I spent the early afternoon reading to him, then we all trooped out to get Ellen tested (negative) and stopped for coffee on the way home.
Really, it hasn't been a bad day, at least not since 10:00. :-) In fact, given that we were expecting appendicitis when we left for the hospital, a diagnosis of strep throat is a relief! This is one of the big things that parenthood has meant to me: adjusting to things that never in your wildest dreams would you have thought you could handle.
It's not a bad day. But wow, are we tired.
These were enough symptoms of appendicitis that we piled the kids in the car (where Morgan threw up again) and drove them to the emergency room. The nurse did a wonderful job of calming Morgan down, took his BP and temperature, and felt around his belly a bit. She agreed that it was consistent with appendicitis, but before running an X-ray ran a strep culture -- which came back positive. (Bit of a surprise to us -- never knew that strep could manifest itself as bellyache, nausea and vomiting, but apparently it's not uncommon.)
So they put M on a ten-day amoxycillin cruise and sent us home. We all went to bed at 6:30. The baby woke me at 10AM. Morgan got up at 11:30, bright as a button. I spent the early afternoon reading to him, then we all trooped out to get Ellen tested (negative) and stopped for coffee on the way home.
Really, it hasn't been a bad day, at least not since 10:00. :-) In fact, given that we were expecting appendicitis when we left for the hospital, a diagnosis of strep throat is a relief! This is one of the big things that parenthood has meant to me: adjusting to things that never in your wildest dreams would you have thought you could handle.
It's not a bad day. But wow, are we tired.
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Date: 2003-06-13 03:17 pm (UTC)Hi BTW. :-)
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Date: 2003-06-13 03:38 pm (UTC)Yes, I called the day care this morning and let them know what was up. Beth did't seem too concerned; I dunno if they'll post a sign or anything.
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Date: 2003-06-13 05:08 pm (UTC)*hugs* to everyone
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Date: 2003-06-13 07:08 pm (UTC)