We were admitted Tuesday afternoon and spent much of the afternoon getting poked and prodded. The worst was getting the IV in. It took 5 people and the nurse even commented how "strong this child is." Strong willed too!
After 3 flushes from the bottom end (boy was that fun) they put her ng tube in around 11pm and gave her meds through it down into her belly all night. The nurse told us they start off slow with it so she wouldn't get nauseous and she did really well, only vomiting a few times. Nothing really moved along until about 7am or so when it finally started to work. Watch out.
First smile of the day....getting an Olaf and balloon delivered to her room by her bff.
Here she was walking around trying to get things moving on Wednesday. I think we measured her height about 23493 times to see if she grew while we were there......nope.
Tired little peanut finally crashed Wednesday afternoon. Literally 2 minutes later the xray techs came in. She slept through the entire thing while they moved her around and put the board under her. She was one tired girl after being up all night.
The Dr's call it Encopresis, which is basically a withholding condition where after a while she got so backed up into her intestines that the only way for a clean out was in the hospital. I'm worried we'll go through this often. It was impossible to know how backed up she was without looking at the Xray. She was going often at home, but I guess it wasn't amounting to enough and the leftovers were getting stuck where they shouldn't.
Dr. told us that her intestines are like deflated balloons now, where they don't have a lot of muscle tone so we're on a regimen to keep her loose. We are hoping and praying that we can change her mindset on this holding thing.....what did that nurse say again? She is strong willed. I think she hit the nail on the head. She must get that from Gary! :)
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