Join the craziness of the Ham family: December 2009

Sorry for the randomness, but blogger won't let me put my photos in order, nor move my text to the top!!!!

All her animals that she got

Miles the IV Holder

sitting with Sissy

Snuggling with mum before mum moves to her not so comfy chair

Playing with Daddy's ear

Holding daddy's hand

"REAL" food

"SOFT" Food

Heard she might need surgery

Drinking the IV contrast

The greatest words I heard today was "Mumma, I'm so glad to be able to eat your good food again". That was from our 9yr old Tiz as she was eating homemade beef stew. Our poor little munchin was very sick from last Thursday until really feeling like herself today. She spent time in 3 Emergency Rooms before being admitted to the hospital on Saturday morning and being released on Monday afternoon.

Last Thursday, the day we got the new kitty, Tiz said that her tummy was upset and not feeling well. Went to bed fairly early and woke up around 10 with a high fever and complaining that her belly was really bad. So in bed she crawled with me. We didn't sleep at all, she tossed and turned and was so uncomfortable. Around 4ish she threw up some, said she felt better and fell asleep. ( just in time for me to go to work!). Robbie was to go to RI for the day, but he stayed home so I could work. Instinct told me to have him to make a dr's app't. So off they went around 10 to the pediatrician. They tested her for UTI, which was negative and said that if the pain moved any - then to call them back. She was a lounge lizard all day and didn't eat. That night she wanted to go to bed early, so crawled in bed with me, then went into her own bed. At 2am she woke up saying the pain was unbearable and could barely move. So called the pediatrician, who advised us to go to the hospital. Off we went to our local ER. She vomited a few times there and spiked a fever of over 102. The poor dear has my mums veins, which roll and make it almost impossible for them to stick her for an IV. They poked and poked and poked some more. No IV, but did get some blood. The blood work showed her white cells were high, not alarming high at this point, but high. So the dr on duty wanted a ultrasound done of her appendix. BUT we had to go to another town to get that done. Off we loaded the poor babe and drove 20miles to the other hospital. There they tried an IV, no luck, and started her drinking CT contrast in the event the ultrasound didn't show anything. Off we went to the ultrasound, the tech and the ER dr were 100% positive that it was an appendix and decided against doing the cat scan, but asked if we wanted surgery done there. I told them I wanted to go to the hospital near where her pediatrician was or onto Maine Medical where the childrens hospital is. So they made arrangements and off we went to Midcoast. There we checked into the ER then was ushered to the Med/Surg floor and into her room. There her nurse was absolutely FABULOUS! She did a great job numbing her arm, and telling her she had a "magic potion" and she couldn't look. The "magic potion" was a little shot of lidocaine to numbed her arm so that they could get an IV in. Blood work was done and her white cells had jumped to 20,000. The surgeon was not convinced though it was appendicitis, nor did her pediatrician. So we hunkered down in the room for the night, waiting to see what the blood cells would do. The next morning blood work done and they had dropped down by about 1/2. Won't go into the details of what we had to go thru get get the blood. They decided to keep her overnight again, if she still had flank pain Monday morning, then they would do a cat scan. Monday the flank pain was gone and the white blood cells were normal at 5200. They started her on a clear diet, then a soft diet and then she was allowed home!!! Monday night we all were exhausted and fell asleep at 7pm and didn't get up until 6am. She lounged around yesterday, eating a little more but not much. Slept well again last night. Today she's back to normal. Eating and running around. So its now 7pm and she's exhausted and ready for bed - so off we go and she's begging for school tomorrow!! OH, the surgeon thinks she had some viral gastreonitis bug. However if anything flares up again, then she will automatically have a ct scan. But we are hoping that never happens!!!