Ok, Monday I woke up with a killer backache. . .turned out I sprained my back and was to get to the Chiro again the next day. . .except, my 6 yo was in the middle of a hideous athsma attack from mon night on. . .doc on tues got him on prednisone and "quiet" for the rest of his spring break (wahoo). . .so, missing chiro on tues, wed, (treatments frequently)on friday, he has a tummy ache and it moves into his vomiting and total pain and nausea. He has this about once every 3 months, but this bout is quite awful and he is gasping with pain. We have had him diagnosed and basically, there is/was nothing to be done. . . or so we thought. This one went ON and ON, he had temp. that looked hypothermic for several hours and moved to normal in 2 hours, and while the vomiting stopped, he was still feeling sick on Friday, so we got him into the doc that afternoon. He was told he needed to pee in a cup and get some blood work done. I was talking to him and mentioned how his pee is probably really yellow since he hadn't been able to get fluids down. He casually tells me that when he peed earlier at the docs office, it was RED. That was a new one on me, and he said the first time it happened. The sample for the doc was likewise quite red, and his blood readings did not indicate an infection, but that something was caterwompous. His tummy and lower lungs were too quiet for doc. Sent to childrens hospital ER for CT scan. Meantime, kid has his appetite back, and trouble breathing. We were at ER for six hours and he wasn't fed, and it was 2 hours before he was given breathing treatment (pissed that I even had to ask, with as often as nurses were in there looking at his 93% oxygenation!!) So, the CT scan shows a very large abnormality in his kidney/ureter and we are seeing specialist tomorrow ASAP---because NONE of their urologists answered their call on Fri night!!! I don't think the ER guy was sure he should let us go, but didn't see any urgent reason to keep us. I hope he made the right call. . . so today he is feeling good, but obviously whatever is wrong is still wrong. We were just lucky that he had dramatic enough symptoms to lead the docs to the (or at least A) problem that they can treat.
We are likely facing surgery at least. I hope this is more ureter than kidney related. I don't want him to face transplants (we already knew he had hydronephrosis since before his birth, but all the checkups till Fri were normal and showed nothing to be alarmed about.)
So, he is out of school so much this year, I am glad he started out so smart or he would be really really behind. He is likely to be out even more this week if we have more tests and/or surgery scheduled. I am seriously considering homeschooling him the rest of the year just to make sure he isn't missing something important. I am already finding the school lax about his athsma meds, I hesitate to send him with urinal or anything else that they might disregard and should not!
Sorry for the rant. I am ticked, tired, sore and scared. NOT in that order. I am also being totally bitchy, refused to go to family easter after making a bunch of food and actually doing my hair, because DH pissed me off. He deserved it, but the kids didn't it. I am not handling any of this well and have not been for weeks really. This is starting to feel like the straw. . .and I don't even know how bit it is yet!