Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

I would appreciate prayer for our oldest.  It’s been quite the past few days:

For the past few weeks he has complained of stomach cramping or needing to lie down.  On this past Thursday he had one of these episodes and my wife decided to take him to the doctor.  They gave him an X-Ray and it showed a big mass of gas.  At that time the doctors guessed that he had a partial blockage in his stomach.  They wanted us to come back Friday morning for an upper GI.

Friday morning he took the upper GI (with a fight because the barium tastes awful) and they said that there was no blockage, but they thought that he might have a mal-rotated abdomen.  At that point they said that it was practically an emergency, and we had to travel to a bigger hospital an hour away to see a pediatric surgeon.

Once there, we waited a while, and he got an IV– by someone that was in training.  So, our little trooper ended up getting stuck, having the person go through the vein, and then having to get stuck again.  Hearing your little one ask you why he has to go through this, and asking for help– man.

Fortunately, they ran another upper GI (this time running the barium through his nose (and my wife and I having to leave the room as four doctors had to do this)) and found that the abdomen is fine.

So, no answers, and yet he still acts lethargic at least once a day.  The only thing that we can think of is that it could be related to a milk intolerance– he used to throw up or have diarrhea every time he had it when he was younger but we thought he had grown out of it.

We were told to follow up with a Pediatric Gastro-Intestinal Doctor when they get in.  I don’t want him to have to have an IV again– don’t know if I could take it!– nor do I want him to have to have a scope down his stomach.  So, we’re keeping track of everything he’s eating in the hopes that we can figure out what it is.

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