Back in the ER

We're unfortunately back in the ER tonight, Sunday 1-7-07. They sent us home from 9 South this afternoon after Lars had a clear x-ray, and was eating and perked up significantly. Around the time when we got home, 6 p.m. or so, he started violently screaming & writhing in pain. We were unable to get him to stop, and we brought him back to the ER. They've done a full ultrasound so far, and didn't find anything remarkable. They are doing bloodwork now, and re-admitting him tonight. There's a chance that his recent additional seizure med, depakote, has caused pancreatitis, and they're checking that. Sounds like we're going to 8 West this time...

If you're just catching up with us, we were here Wednesday night, back Friday night, admitted Fri-Sunday, and now back Sunday night... Here are earlier pics & updates:
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Saturday:
Lars had been feeling worse & worse. We took him to the ER Wednesday night. He turned out to have a very impacted bowel even though he'd been moving it. Three enemas later we thought he was all cleaned out but then he was in acute pain, writhing & screaming inconsolably for hours & hours again Thursday, so went back for more x-rays. He still had a huge mass of stool that had only moved a little ways, still in the upper large intestine. He hadn't eaten much since Tuesday & was really miserable.

After several more enemas, Friday we went back to the ER & he was admitted to Children's Hospital. The x-rays looked much like those on Wednesday night had, in spite of lots of enemas, exlax, mirilax, etc. They put an IV in & an NG tube up his nose & into his belly. Last night and today they've given him 1600 cc's of "go lightly," and two more enemas, but no results. They're going to keep doing enemas every two hours all night. Official party line is still that it's old stool just being stubborn, and they are going to do their "clean out" regimine until tomorrow morning. If there's no movement by tomorrow morning, then we go to plan "B." I'm not sure what that is. At this point we're really hoping it's just poop in there, not some other growth, & that it's NOT attached/calcified to the intestine wall. Haven't done any more x-rays. He's had 6 in the last 3 days- one of the nurses said "we don't want him to glow"....

Joa has been hanging out with friends & went to a great sibshop today (http://www.siblingsupport.org/) Andey's working tonight & I'm here with Lars. Let's hear it for laptop and wireless internet!

AND for the camera in the laptop!








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Sunday:
Okay, thanks to all of your images of waterfalls, mudslides, volcanoes, waters eroding hillsides, dams breaking, levees breaking, irrigation, embankments eroding....... and Mama singing Cris Williamson's Waterfall over & over.......and with a little help from go lightly and enemas every two hours...... we early this afternoon we achieved a clear Lars intestine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whew.

He felt immediately much, much better-- perked right up, started eating (in spite of the tube running down the back of his throat), making happy sounds (that we haven't heard in days), smiling (which we haven't seen in days), and his color improved before my very eyes.

Napping a little now, waiting for tubes to be extracted & for the GI docs to come visit, then they'll spring us out of the hospital later this afternoon or early evening. Fresh air, here we come!

YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!