Our sweet Kynna has been one sick girl lately!! Hopefully she is on the getting better side!!! For over a week straight, she was puking everything she ate. She was fine to keep liquids down but that was all. After day 5, we took her in since no one else was catching it and she hadn't been around anyone that had been sick with a flu bug. They suggested that we have her blood taken to run some test, to make sure she wasn't dehydrated. She wasn't but was close enough for them to be concerned about keeping a close watch on her. We took her off of all foods for the remainder of that day and most of the next, then we started her on the BRAT diet. Well that didn't make it better, so we had to take her back in. They took an x-ray of her belly to see if they could see anything going on but it just suggested another condition that is actually pretty common in young children. It's call intussusception, however we didn't know this until after another 2 doctor visits, another trip to the ER and having blood work, and finally taking her down to Primary Children's. We spent all night and morning at Primary Children's and finally they decided that it was this condition. They pretty much wait to see if it will fix itself since they don't like to do the procedure to correct in on young children because of the risk involved. And since she was super white and clammy when we got down there, they are pretty sure it had passed. The doctors and nurses down there are WONDERFUL!! As a mother, I felt like I couldn't do anything for her, and they were all reminding us that we were doing everything right and taking good care of our baby. They told us that if they had any question about whether she was being watched and taken care of, they would have kept her for a day or two to observe her and make sure that all was okay now. It was just a nice reminder that we were doing everything in our power to care for our baby and that we were doing what was right for her!!
Kynna sporting her bandage where they took her blood the first time
At Primary Children's!! She wouldn't lay down and even though she was super tired she was not about to fall asleep in a place that looked way to much like the last place that stuck her with a needle!!
She finally gave in and fell asleep in my arms just moments before she was released at 4am. The nurses all laughed and they adored her little personality!! I am so grateful to have a Primary Children's Hospital so close but it was so sad to see all the other kids that were so sick in there.
Kynna is pretty much back to her normal eating patterns now. She does throw-up every now and then but nothing like she was. And I am grateful that she is okay!!! I don't think I could handle dealing with issues like some of the other moms do!! Heck I cry when my babies have to get shots, let alone when other things are going on with them!!!! Sick kids is just not for me!! NO more being sick Kynna girl!!!
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