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| Lucy Sleeping on my lap while we were waiting in the ER |
So we managed to avoid an in-patient hospital stay this time! Here is a rundown of the latest issues Lucy had experienced:
- Started throwing up Monday night - no indication she was unwell before that
- We gave her a suppository and laxative at home (she threw up the laxative)
- She was feeling much better by Tuesday afternoon
- After an overnight at my parent's for Thanksgiving on Thursday, Lucy started throwing up again on Friday evening
- We managed it at home with the same routine as Monday, but she wasn't able to keep any food down and very little water and Pedialyte; her throwing up decreased to a few times a day (instead of several)
- I called her pediatrician, GI and Neuro docs on Monday and the general consensus was that it is a GI issue, but she should be taken in JUST IN CASE it isn't; GI wouldn't give any prescriptions for gut motility over the phone until she was seen in the ER
- On Tuesday night, we put Ruby to bed and left her in my parent's care at our house and took Lucy to the ER where she had an abdominal X-Ray and an quick shunt series MRI...both looked fine and we were happy that she wasn't dehydrated enough to require an IV or admittance to the hospital. We took her home with a prescription for Zofran (anti-nausea) and another call into the GI
- On Wednesday, her GI docs prescribed a motility medicine for her to be taken daily
- By Thursday, she was feeling better and eating some and on Friday she went to school for a few hours!
- Now, she has insatiable hunger and is constantly wanting snacks, haha!
So, the 6 day cycle seems to reign true...it takes a while for her body to start "moving" again, but once it does, she is good to go. We will continue her on daily laxative and motility medications for the foreseeable future.
We are THRILLED that we could treat her at home, but it was a tough week for all of us!! It's hard to deal with the fact that we couldn't go on a field trip to the Crayola experience because Lucy was sick or that we couldn't decorate for Christmas like we planned because we wanted Lucy to participate when she could help decorate the tree, or that Lucy had to miss almost a full week of school and is sad when she has to go back because she wants to stay close to home, or that Ruby doesn't get to play with her big sister because she is too weak to get off the coach. In spite of how proud we are of Lucy and her strides, these times of sickness are very difficult for our family, so we appreciate the prayers and kind words of encouragement from those of you who know about these episodes.
Prayers for continued PERMANENT healing for Lucy's GI issues are appreciated.
