Monday, June 25, 2012

emergency rooms...

Friday we headed to St. Louis to see my family and for the Race for the Cure walk on Saturday. Evan was complaining of his boy parts hurting and stomach hurting this past week, but it wasn't consistent and he seemed to be okay. On the drive to St. Louis, he was complaining again, so I called the doctor while driving and the nurse said to take him in because it sounded like it could be his kidneys.

Kelli watched Alex for me and Evan and I went to the hospital. They did a catheter again...ugh. I told the nurse that I would need help holding him down for this part and she said that she could handle it. So...I tried my best, but when Evan kicked her in the face, you could tell she was very  mad. I did warn her though. :) Evan has had the catheter 2 other times and he knew that it hurt. Poor guy. He kept saying that he was better and was all done. I felt so bad.  Everything came back normal from that test, but he still was in pain. They really didn't give me an answer but said that it could be urethritis. So...we went home.


We got home around 4:30 and he seemed to be feeling a little better. The boys played outside and even ate a great dinner. We played outside with my dad and mom and my sister.
Evan finally fell asleep around 9 pm. Then...around 1:00 am, he woke up crying and complaining and saying that it hurt. He was jumping up and down, holding his boy parts and crying and whining and would not stop....so, finally after 2 hours of trying to get him to fall back asleep...I took him to Cardinal Glennon. We got there around 3:15 am.
After doing another catheter, this time they decided to also take a sample to test for an infection in the bladder or kidneys, they also decided to drain the bladder all the way. He had an erection and the doctor said that it was hard for him to pee when it was like that, and maybe all of the pee wasn't releasing from his bladder and backing up into his kidneys...
So, after the catheter sample, they drained it and there was so much urine....as soon as it was all released, he was not in pain anymore. Everything else came back fine from the urine sample and blood work. The doctor said that it was urine retention. They were unsure as to why it was happening, especially because he isn't potty trained all the way yet and most of the time is still in a diaper. So...they told us that we needed to see a urologist. We left there around 5 am.



Saturday...driving home at 5 am from Cardinal Glennon, we saw a beautiful sunrise. Got home, was hoping to put Evan to bed since he had only 4 1/2 hours of sleep...but Alex woke up and was up for the 1st part of the morning, so Evan thought it was "wake" time. He did lay on the couch with my mom for a little bit...


We headed to meet my family for the St. Louis Race for the Cure, but I was going to leave from there and go home. With me on 2 hours of sleep and Evan having 4.5...it just wasn't going to be pretty with him downtown with a ton of people, no sleep, and it being hot. So, we saw lots of family and friends and we had a pretty good turn out for Barb's Team this year. Can't believe this was the third year...we miss her so much.


About 10 minutes into our drive home...



Hopefully the urologist we need to see will have some answers...thank you for your prayers.

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