Our most recent ER trip, unfortunately, occurred last Friday night. Ben woke up at about 9:30pm crying uncontrollably saying that his tummy hurt. He seemed to be pointing to his left side. The prelude to this is that on Wed. night, our boy took a spill on his trike. After the fall, Ben was crying and shaking saying that his tummy hurt, so I took him to Urgent Care to make sure that all of his organs were in their proper place. (Luckily, they were.) So, when he woke up crying on Friday, our first thought was that he was having more pain from falling off the trike. He was inconsolable, so we knew that we needed to get him checked out right away. I made the trek to the ER at 10pm with an aching Ben. By 11:45pm, still waiting in the waiting room, my nerves were shot. I had just witnessed a baby girl have a seizure right next to me while waiting to be seen for a 105 degree temperature. All I could think was that Ben would be next since he was so overtired, scared, and stressed. (Again, luckily, that did not happen.) So it was after midnight by the time we saw an actual doctor, who after giving Ben an exam said everything felt okay, but that he would order an ultrasound to be safe. The ultrasound took over an hour to do. By the end of it, Ben was even more tired, scared, and was now complaining that his right side hurt. The tech left the room at the end of the exam saying that she needed to find a doctor. That set off all kinds of alarms in my head... she returned (with no doctor) saying that she had enough pictures... So we were escorted back down to our room in the ER around 2am. Shortly after, a nurse entered and said "Okay, you guys are outta here!" I looked at her and said, "Ummm, we haven't even seen the doctor to hear about the ultrasound yet..." (I may not have said it that nice...) She went to get the doctor and he came in telling me that everything was fine on the ultrasound. After having a slightly heated discussion with the doctor, he assured me that Ben had no internal bleeding and all of his organs on his left side appeared normal. So I asked him about Ben's right side and his appendix area where Ben had had some pain during the ultrasound. He "reminded" me that Ben had been complaining of pain on his left side when we entered the ER. After another slightly more heated discussion, (where I reminded him that Ben was only 4 with a limited vocabulary and may not have been completely accurate when he pointed to the pain in his tummy) he told me that everything was okay there too. He may have pulled a muscle, or he may have gas pain and constipation. In the end, I think it was a combination of these that had caused Ben so much pain Friday night. So at 3am, my son and I headed home.
Luckily, Ben has not had too many more complaints about his tummy. We got the gas and constipation worked out (after a few failed attempts on my part to give him a suppository... apparently I am not skilled at that at all...) and I am happy to say that he is back to his pain free self.
I was so happy that Ben was better by Monday because they had a field trip planned to Wickiup in Toddville for preschool. Unfortunately, it had to be postponed due to rain and the boys were very sad that they didn't get to ride the bus today. It got rescheduled though, so now Conner is walking around the house saying "Bus, two weeks!!!" Oh what a wonderful ride that will be!
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