Sad

I am sad tonight. We are back at the Children's Hospital. Last week we were in our hospital from feb 16 until Feb 20 when we transferred to Children's. We were at Children's from Feb 20 until Feb 23. On Feb 26 we went to the ER at 6:00 am and went back again at 10:00 pm. Today, Feb 28 we were admitted to Children's again.

Feb 16 we were admitted to our hospital because Maddox had a stomach flu and an upper respiratory thing and was dehydrated. We couldn't get him to tolerate his feedings (kept throwing up). That is why we transferred to Children's on Feb 20.

They figured Maddox's stomach doesn't empty like it should, so they kept the tube that connects to his tummy open to drain, while feeding the formula into his tube that leads to his intestine. They also started a medication to help his stomach empty faster. He did great! We fed him with a faster rate, so he was only hooked up for 16 hours rather than 20-24. He stopped throwing up and we went home. He did great at home on Friday and Sat (Feb 24 and 25).

Sat night he kept waking up with stomach pains and they got worse, so we brought him to the ER and they diagnosed him with Clostridium Difficile. This is a colitis (inflammation of the colon) typically brought on by antibiotics (he had a pretty strong one while at the hospital in our home town).

It. Is. Nasty.

On Sunday afternoon Maddox started throwing up, the anti nausea med worked for about an hour. By around 9:30 Maddox started throwing up brown, coffe ground colored stuff and it was draining from his stomach tube (it was blood).

Yesterday and today we couldn't get him to tolerate his feedings, and he has lost weight, so we were admitted again.

They started him on his feeds on a little slower rate, and within 30 minutes he started throwing up. (just like at home). They used an anti nausea med and Benadryl and he still kept throwing up. So now he is hooked up to a suction thing that suctions the stuff out of his stomach. And he is finally sleeping and hasn't thrown up for 40 minutes.

That is where we are at. I know God is in control and He is taking care of Maddox, and at the same time, tonight I am more scared than I have been. I think it's the suction thing. My hope is that all these troubles help to lead the doctors to the cause of everything. I also got my period today, so that doesn't help.

I'll update tomorrow and have some pics on here as well. I just wanted to get everything down before I forgot.