Symi in the ER

Just posting a little something different. Not pleasant, but different. oh boy.

Friday Symi started to get fussy and was just kind of grumpy. We took her to our Ward's Christmas party and she screamed the whole time. I just thought that it was too many people and that she was overwhelmed. That night she didn't sleep well and started to loose her appetite.

Saturday she was really really grumpy all day. Fussing on and off, occasionally screaming in fits, but grinning and smiling occasionally too. She really wasn't eating which is VERY odd for her. She wasn't sleeping either. By the afternoon she started screaming, arching her back, for hours!! I thought that she was getting an ear infection and was being very vocal about it. We decided to take her to the local instacare. We got there and immediately they sent us to the ER. The on call Dr though she'd scratched her eye. My thoughts were . . . She's bawling and screaming these last few days over an eye!? WHAT?!?!? They tested her eye and nothing was wrong. They continued to tell us that she might have intussuception. Where the intestines telescope into themselves causing TONS of pain. At one point we thought Ben had this too. So we proceeded to test her with a barium enema and something called real life x-ray. As the barium was being pushed into her we watcher her colan on the screen. It did NOT look normal?! Normall a colan starts at your bum wraps up around the left side, up under your diaphram, and then back around on your right side. Symi's was looping and swirling in all directions but the correct one! Her colan was very enlarged and seemed to have some fecal matter inside. After the exam was almost finished she started to scream even louder and suddenly had a large FAST bowel movement. She made quite the mess. But she started to feel much better. As we watched the bowel movement happen her colan realigned into place. They told us that this NEVER happens and that they can't explain how it happened while they were doing the barium enima. She started to really perk up! Wanting to eat, and finally crashed and started to rest, instead of fuss and scream. It was wonderful to see! We thought that she was doing better and they released us to go home. She started to decline a little when we brought her home a fever started to develop and she became quite uncomfortable again. She would not sleep! Dane and I took shifts throughout the night. I called the ER again because her fever reached 102.5 and was continuing to climb even on Tylenol. They wanted us to come back in. I didn't want to go yet because it was 3 in the morning and I wasn't too keen on the idea of waking Ben in the middle of the night to transport him to someone elses house and leaving him there. I asked the Dr if we could wait a while and see if it didn't break at our house first. He said that he'd really like us to come in but if we would like we could wait a half an hour first. Well I waited an hour and finally it broke to around 100. So we stayed home. Sunday she was restless and grumpy all day. You could just tell she didn't feel good. We kept up on her temp which fluctiated between 99 and 100. She would cat nap only if we were holding her. Dane and I took turns again. Holding her until our arms went numb and then changing. We finally got her to sleep deep when her fever broke agian last night around midnight. She's now at 97.7 and holding.

Today we went into the Dr's office for a follow up appointment. He was very concerned about what had happened over the last few days. He wanted to run some more test and contact a specialist at Primary Children's Hospital. He sent us home on strict instructions not to go anywhere. We waited for about and hour and got a call instructing us to head to Salt Lake immediantly for an Upper GI test. Ben could not be with us while we attend this test. I asked if this was an emergency. They said no but it was extremely urgent. We then schedule an appointment for tomorrow at 8 am. So we are heading down tonight. I hope to keep everyone posted and updated as we find out information.

Guess it wasn't an ear infection after all.

I was just telling Dane how grateful I was that we were spending our Christmas home this year and not traveling back and forth to Primary Children's Hospital. I should have bit my tough or knocked on wood. Because here we go again with #2.
Please keep us in your prayers.