Second, I was in tears on Friday night going from pharmacy to pharmacy in my sweats before the closed trying to find other forms of laxatives. I called my mom and said, "being a mom is really hard." Isn't that an understatement? I know this will not be the last time I say that.... because it IS hard! It is worth it, but it is hard! Seeing your child in pain is just horrible. Not being able to put a band-aid on it and kiss it to make it better is hard! I love my boys so much.
This sums up our weekend:
And my sweet sweet father in law sent me flowers with this card.... and I cried. I am tired and emotional. And this is just plain sweet. (he had help from his wife-- but the thought was his and I think it is just the sweetest thought!)
We had a rough weekend. We went out to dinner Friday night with my sweet friend who was in from out of town. Andy's tummy was really hurting him and he asked to go to the bathroom every 4 minutes. I've been talking to my friend through all of this and she even said she had no idea it was as bad as it was. We finally went home and all went to bed.
Saturday, we had plans to go to a big tailgate party before the Carolina game. Cal got invited to go to the game with my amazing friend, who just knew I could use a little break. And THANK GOD for her knowing that. Well, Andy was up at 4 Saturday morning in all kinds of pain- screaming, grabbing his tummy, begging to throw up... it was awful. But, CalBoy had the BEST time with his best buddy!
My pediatrician and I have been emailing back and forth and she mentioned in her last email that the next step is hospitalization with tubes shoved down his throat to flush the miralax in. She said he would have to be awake for this and it would be very traumatic on him (um, and me too, I think!). She told us she was working in the clinic weekend hours this weekend if we wanted to come in. Eddie was asking me a million questions to which I did not know the answers so I said, you know what? Let's ALL go in and talk to her and let her see this...
We went at 10:30 and left an hour later with more of a plan and we felt better. We were thinking we just needed to give him as much miralax as we possibly could, but for miralax to work, it has to be dissolved in 8 ounces of fluid. We were giving him a sippy cup of water with two huge cap fulls in there, or we were making these little "shots" with a little flavored water and a full cap full. We weren't giving him enough fluid to activate the medicine-- fantastic to know that now! The medicine causes cramping any way because it is churning up your stomach to get things moving... well, we were adding to the churning and not adding to the productivity level.
Since we found that out, it is like having a new kid-- he has gone a few times (although we are still waiting for the "big bang") and has not complained about his stomach hurting him at all. He slept until almost 5:30 today-- which is much better than his 4am wake up calls he's been making. He woke up HAPPY and talkative, which is much different than his normal waking up screaming in pain and only saying his tummy hurts.
SO, I think we are figuring this out and getting him better....phew!
Again, THANK YOU for all the thoughts. I am really sorry for writing about nothing but poop on here. Trust me, I would LOVE to not think about/talk about/write about poop. But honestly, my world has been revolving around it!
My mother in law is coming tomorrow night to help keep the boys so my mom and I can do our annual girls trip to New York City! I am so excited to go, and I am even more excited that Andy is on the mend-- we were close to canceling it when he was really bad. I know my MIL can love on him better than anyone, so he will be in the best of hands!
And, on another note, we got our pictures back from the session we did a few weeks ago. Once again, I think Amber did a great job! She got a few great ones of the whole fam, but one might be a Christmas card, so I am not posting those yet... But I do love these....
