Jo Knits!

H is for Hospital

Hey everyone!

We just got back home!!! Saturday we went apple picking and Lucas was running around and fell on a rock and bumped his head. Then in the bus (it was an organized parent-kid outing, dh did not come as promised. So he is now considered out of our life!) he was being the little monkey he can be. So I thought he was ok, someone on the bus told me not to worry, so that's what I did. When he napped I'd check on him but I wasn't to worried. Then all night he'd throw up every hour and in the mornong after a nursing he threw up 4 times. I knew something was wrong then. I took a shower with Lucas and then let him play in a bath while my mom looked over him. He was a very happy camper while in the tub.

I called the clinic just to be sure and they said to go to a clinic and not worry. I thought she way wrong and called 911, we don't have a car and I really wanted someone here to reassure me on Lucas. The ambulance came and they said straight to the hospital, Lucas threw up again in the ambulance and we started passing every red lights on the way. That's when I really got scared. We got at the hospital at 09:30am, wait and by 11am Lucas has a "thing" installed so they can directly IV him if needed. He hates this "ep lock" (I'm not sure of the name) He threw up just as they were installing this, so he was in a lil'hospital gown. It made him look even sicker! :( Then when I heard him cry, I completly lost it. The week's event just all came back to mind and I had to leave the room and they were doing the "lock" on Lucas. I had to keep Lucas from nursing until they could check him out and it was so hard to tell me little boy No! to nursing. :( Let me tell you that I started to talk to higher powers from that moment on. I was mostly thinking of my deceased grand mother and was hoping she was there to help me through this.

After more wait I get news that Lucas will have a CT scan, that sounded so scary. After a few hours they give Lucas the oral med for the scan, well it went out as fast as it went in. So they had to give it to him again rectally. By then he was fighting to fall asleep, he had just napped before this. I'd hold him and dose off when he did. We were both exhausted from the night we just had. The scan lasted a whole three minutes, I was on a potty break and when I came back it was already done! LOL! At 5PM we got admitted and went to our room. The nurses were GEMS, they all had a love for kids. Lucas had to sleep in a crib that had like a reversed tub over it! It was awful to look at it, he got scared when he saw it. He finally was ok to nurse and fell right asleep, so I put him in that crib and begged the nurse for something to drink, I had a MAJOR headache. I had only drank a glass of apple juice all day. She gave me a food tray and asked if the child's father would come by. WAAAAAAAAAH! There I went bawling like a baby. Poor nurse, she didn't know what she had said to set me like this. (I had paged dh earlier to let him know I was calling the ambulance for Lucas and he never called back.) Anyway, my mom arranged for Zoe to sleep at a friend's place and she came to see me at the hospital. I couldn't eat anything, nothing would stay in my body, each time I ate and I had a potty run only minutes after. I still had a big headache and got some tylenols.

My mom had to leave at 10:30pm, Lucas woke up on and off through the evening, would nurse, drink apple juice, throw up. Then he slept a full 6 hours and so did I! WOW! It felt so good but by 4AM he wouldn't got back to sleep. I forgot to say that he was checked for blood pressure and pupil reaction each hour, even when sleeping. Then he cried two hours before crasing again at 6am. Luckily we had a room alone so I wasn't too worried about waking anyone up. We slept one more hour and then it was up for the the day. More puking and nursing.

9:30AM, the CT scan is negative aka all is ok but he is still vomiting and they wanted to keep an eye on him. His vitals got better as the day went by. Sorry if I don't remember all the hours, I've been lacking off sleep and can't remember even the simplest things at this time. My mom came to the hospital around noon and my appetite has been doing better. Last night I could only drink a coffee as nothing else looked appealing to me, I felt so sick to my stomach, heart and cried myself to sleep.

Today was a great day, Zoe came to the hospital with my mom. She got scared when she saw Lucas sleeping in the crib and didn't want Lucas's IV to touch her. He got 2 bags of IV and by this afternoon you could see Lucas was a new man. Yesterday after his scan medecine he walked very wobbly, that scared me so much. Today he was almost running, I had to walk pretty fast holding the IV machine! LOL!

So basically, we got to leave around supper time, Lucas still hasn't touched any food for like the past 2 days but he's been holding breastmilk down! The neurology nurses always gave the OK to nurse Lucas, they said even if he vomits it, it's the best stuff he could have! They were a great support to me and have arranged for a social worker to contact me tomorrow. I have learned that a friend has paged dh and has talked to him. Dh did not ask more details about Lucas being hospitalized, so I guess he doesn't care... ;( Lucas has been sleeping for the past hour, I hope that tomorrow his appetite slowly returns. That little guy, scared me alot but at the same time gave me something to be thankful for on our Canadian Thanksgiving day.

I'm sure I forgot to say half of what happened. LOL! Please don't check spelling or any intelligent stuff, my brain is numb and I'm off to sleep. Thank you for all the positive thoughts! I wish I could've updated earlier but I had no access to any computer. My mom tried her best at updating Crystal but then she came over to the hospital so no one could update her.

hugs and good night!

~Jo~