nonilv's Journal

So yesterday was a very trying day.  It started out like most days.  Get up get grandkids off to school.  Go to drop of youngest grandchild off at my friends house to go to the gym.  I get there and Eli (grandson,he's 3) starts clinging to me saying his back hurts.  I ask him what's wrong with you back?  He tell me that he fell off his scooter the day before and now his back hurts.  He will not let go of me, so I decide to bring him home.  I give him an oatmeal bath, (he also has been dealing with poison oak all week) and put him into bed and turn on the cartoons.  He can't lay still, his back hurts.  He moans and moans.  I give him some pain reliever and put him on a heating pad.  He can't me still, dosing and turn.  My back hurts.  He get's up and turn white as a sheet.  I crab him up and off to the doctor we go.  His mother and I work for his primary doctor.  So we get there and run a urine test and find LARGE amount of blood in it. He starts vomiting. Off to the hospital to get a STAT ultrasound.  Doesn't look good. He vomits again.  So we have to get STAT blood work done. He vomits again. Doesn't look good.  This all takes about 3 hours and he is crying my back hurts.  Do you know how heart breaking it is to not be able to do anything for this small child.  We talk to the doctor and he says go to pediatric hospital right now.  I run to get a prescription filled for tynenol w/ codine.  Poor baby as soon as he gets the meds he falls asleep.  We get to the hospital which is a 30 minute drive from my house.  He is still sleeping.  We get right back because our doc has already called and faxed all the results.  The doctor comes in and and says he is calling in a specialist.  We wait, he is still sleeping.  The specialist comes in and reviews the test results and films from the ultrasound.  Look to him like Eli has a congential kidney disease.  He has most likely had the enlarged kidney since birth.   The trauma of the fall was so severe because of it's enlargement.  He tells us we can take him home with complete bed rest for the week end and see primary on Monday to have labs repeated. How do you keep a 3 year old in bed for 2 days?  Call his office on Monday and make an appt. So we can decide what to do with the kidney defect.  So really the falling off the scooter was a blessing to find this defect.  If not corrected he's kidney could shout down.  After an eight hour day of doctors test and hospital I was exausted.  We get home and Eli doesn't want to leave me so he stayes and spends the night.  It's better that way, so as not to be around his 5 year old brother and be tempted to get physical(lol).  Those two are real tough little boys, they like to wrestle and play hard.  So today I hope I can get caught up on some rest (like that's going to happen). I opened the pool and I know all the grandkids are going to want to come and swim today, even though the water is cold.  Never a dull moment when you live in this family!!  Thanks for listening...Joni