When It Rains, It Pours.....Part Two

Ok, so as promised, I am continuing on in the saga of "The Days of Our Lives" Bleyl style.

My sister Becki got married in Manti exactly one week ago today. Wahoo! It was fun and luckily, our car made it out to Manti and back with no more problems.

Wednesday, Brinley had her MRI at Primary Children's to see how her brain had developed since the one she had while she was in NICU. They had to put her under anesthesia for this, but she did great and we got great results from the doctor. He said that her brain growth is about 2 months behind, but due to her coming early and her brain damage, that it looked good. He was very optomistic about it and said that it looked better than they thought it would. He said that she would still have some disorder, but that it wouldn't be as severe as we originally thought. We were ecstatic!

Well, they said that anesthesia can make kids nauseous and so to wait 24 hours for vomiting issues. Wednesday afternoon she started throwing up, but we thought that it was from the anesthesia. We changed her to clear liquids, and she still couldn't even keep ice cube water drops down. So, Thursday, we took her to the on call doctor. He gave us nice little pills that help people to not throw up. They didn't work at all on Brinley. She was still vomiting. So, Friday, I took her in to our regular doctor. He looked her over, said she still looked hydrated as her mouth was still very wet, but he also said that her stomach was churning like crazy. So, he told us to give her Maalox to calm it down. If she threw up blood, or anything green, however, we needed to bring her back in right away. He said that they have had TONS of kids who have been vomiting and having diarhea. So, we needed to make sure she didn't get dehydrated.

So, we go home. Keep in mind, that this is now day 3 of the vomiting issue. Those of you who have seen her, know that she has no fat on her little body. So, Saturday morning, I am trying to feed her some Pedialyte. She gets about one ounce down, then promptly throws up blood and Pedialyte. It was old, brown blood, but none the less blood. So, yes, I freaked out. Lets just say that it was a good thing there were no cops on the way to the doctors. I probably would have made them follow me there, then arrest me as I got out of my car cause I wouldn't stop. LOL :)

The doctor on call, told us that the blood was probably from a small tear in her esophogas from all of the vomiting. So, he gave us a liquid form of the anti-throw-up pill and told us that this would probably be easier for her to digest. If it didn't work by Saturday afternoon, then we needed to call the afternoon on call doctor. Well, surprise, surprise, it didn't work. We called the on call doctor and he told us that he was sure she was dehydrated as this was now day 4 of the vomiting. So, I took her to the Emergency Room. There, they tried to get an IV in her. It took them 7, yes you read that right, 7, pokes before they got an IV in her. This on top of the 3 pokes it took for the IV on Wednesday for her MRI a couple of days earlier. Then they found out that her Glucose was 35. So, the pumped her chuck full of sugar. They did x-rays, and an ultrasound and thought that she might have a blocked intestine. So, after 4 hours in the ER, they called an ambulance and transported us to Primary Children's ER because they thought they might need to do surgery. When they checked her glucose before we left for Primary's, her glucose had spiked to 312. YIKES! But, by the time we got to Primary's, her sugar had gone back down to 45. So, she wasn't able to control her glucose and she wasn't able to keep anything down.

So, it is Tuesday, and we still don't have any idea on why she won't stop throwing up. She has gotten hydrated again, and is slowly starting to keep some Pedialyte down, but she is still getting lots of tests, tests, more tests, and her arms and legs, finger and heels have all been poked so much trying to get blood that she is starting to look freckled. Not in a good way either. Poor little thing! It would be nice if we could get some answers, but so far, we don't have any. Still waiting on test results. So, who knows how long we'll be here at Primary's. I hate not knowing things. Seriously, if we could just get some answers, to why things are happening, then we could start to solve the problems. Aaargh! Just keep her in your prayers, please.

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Now on to better news. Caden has officially bought his first mini van. We were able to get a good deal from our friend, and Bill and Caden went and bought it last night. We told Caden last October, when he wanted a mini van more than anything else, that he would have to save his pennies. When his piggy bank was full, we would go look for a mini van. Well, since the car broke down, we had to look sooner than later. However, Caden has been busy since last October. Everywhere we go, he is looking for pennies or any other coins he can find. Bill counted out the change before they went to go buy the van, and Caden had over $30! Good going! So, here is a picture of our little man buying his first mini van. :) He even got his own set of keys but was told he couldn't drive it till he was older. Yeah, right! MUCH OLDER. He he he.