Saturday, March 20, 2010

Medical Mystery!

About two months ago, Danielle started complaining that her tummy was hurting. It would hurt whenever she was eating, when she wasn't eating, and even after having a glass of water. I took her to her Pediatrician and she put her on Prevacid. It didn't seem to work too well. The Dr. wanted to get some blood work done so we went across the hall and she had 4 tubes of blood drawn from her little body. I could see the color drain out of her. She complained that her head hurt then she passed out. I was concerned at first because I couldn't do anything to help her. The nurse got her to wake up after a minute or two it seemed and then carried her into another room to lay down. All the blood work ended up coming back normal so the Dr. ended up sending us to a pediatric Gastrointerologist for further testing. He suggested she get an upper endoscopy to take a look inside. So, this Wednesday, we took her in to have the procedure.
We had to be there by 7:00am so Brent and I took Danielle in and she was so good about this whole thing! She didn't seem scared at all! She was allowed to bring in her blanket and a stuffed animal but I think she would have done just fine without them!
waiting for the Dr. to do her procedure.
After the procedure. She ended up getting more blood drawn while she was asleep and she was not thrilled to find two band-aids on her arms. She was happy to have had an orange popsicle though.
Results from the endoscopy also came back normal but we are still waiting on the blood results. We should know more on Monday.
She also thought it was pretty cool that she got to ride in a wheelchair all the way to our car!

The Dr. is watching her to see if she may be experiencing Migraine headaches now. She could be feeling nautious in addition to her head hurting and because she is only familiar with this symptom, she is complaining about her tummy hurting. She has been having headaches alot lately but the tummy pain and headaches don't seem to be at the same time. It's kind of a mystery!

1 comment:

MM said...

oh my goodness! I didn't know about any of this! Hope things turn out okay! And you found the time to serve me inspite of all this--you are one of my heros!! love you!