Thursday, May 26, 2011

Waiting On Results Is Never Fun

Since it's been a while I'll give a little background. We took Easton for his 15 month check up at the beginning of May, and I brought up to his ped that he has been having low grade fevers every few days for over a month. There isn't a reason for them, at least no outward reason, no runny nose, no cough, no ear drainage (he has tubes). So his doctor decided to hold off on his shots and run some blood work. I wasn't too worried and figured I would get a call back that all was normal and bring in back in for his shots. Well a week later his doctor calls and said there was a small abnormality with his liver enzymes and he is slightly anemic. Now it's time to run more in depth blood tests. OK, sure, no problem I'll take him to get more blood drawn. That was over two weeks ago. I looked up online how long the tests can take and of course one of them can take 2-3 weeks. I know they are being thorough but I HATE waiting. Now amongst all that yesterday Easton FINALLY had a scope done to check all his GI problems. Everything by sight looks "normal". That I wasn't surprised with. Everything looked "normal" with Belle too. At least this time they went in knowing what to test for. They are doing all the tests up front so that we won't have to continue putting him under and scoping him trying to figure out what is wrong. It made me feel bad about Belle having to go through all of that. I know eventually it gave us an answer but I HATE that it took them so long because they didn't run all the tests the first time.
Yesterday was a crazy day we got a call at 6am but we missed the call and I noticed the missed call at 730 I called the surgical center back and they told us our surgery had been moved to the main hospital. The only problem with this is that we weren't going to be able to get belle to school. So Belle had to tag along for the day and we had to get through downtown traffic at rush hour, and be there essentially in 1 hour. Luckily my brother in law was able to get Jamison off to school. We got there and checked in and put in a preop room and then sat, and sat and sat....Poor E was so tired and hungry and thirsty. He was a trooper though. Smiling and cuddling and playing with his sister. Finally 90 min AFTER his surgery was SUPPOSED to start he went back....he did great. It took 20 min and then another 30 min for him to wake up. He hung out in the recovery waking up and flirting the nurses. The first sippy he got he guzzled it down. He did amazing and I'm so proud of bubs! Now we play the waiting game...On a side note the surgeon was Belle's GI doc and she proved why we don't like her even more...she didn't recognize us at all (we've met a few times) and she didn't recognize belle. I realize that we're not patients  every month but you work with kids...Her previous GI doc knew us well and knew her too....wow it was just awkward.
 

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