Another hospital visit!

Well we spent Thursday night through Saturday afternoon at the hospital with Jack. I swear that sweet little boy is going to give me a heart attack one of these days! This time we were there for blood in his poop. They tested him for something called Melix (sp?). That is like little polyps on his bowel (I think) which caused the bleeding. That test came back negative so we left the hospital knowing just as much as we knew when we went in!

Now for the long version of the story.....

We got to the hospital after sitting in the doctors office for 2 hours. The amount of blood in his poop concerned his pediatrician. So the nurse that helped us get settled kept calling Jack a girl! Hello, he doesn't look like a girl and she even changed his diaper! Strike 1 for Bay Med. Then they take him to get his IV. We tell them right away to put it in his foot because his veins are hard to find. They got it easily in his foot last time. Did they do that? No. They got it in his arm after about 40 minutes trying to find one! Strike 2! Then they needed to draw blood and again couldn't find a vien, so while listening to his scream they poke his finger and get blood that way. I had just calmed him down when they try to flush out his IV and he started screaming. The IV was bad. Strike 3! So they take him back to the room to take it out and try again. He was in there for about an hour, came back with red little cheeks and bloodshot eyes from crying so hard. They couldn't find a vein so they didn't put one in and decided to let him sleep. Gee thanks! They tried again the next morning because he had to have an IV for the test he was having done. Again, they couldn't find one and said they were calling the anesteologist to see if he could find one, if not we were headed to Saginaw. Well he found one, IN HIS FOOT, so he was good to go with the test. For his test he could not eat for 8 hours because they had to put dye in his little body. He did so great! I was so proud of him! He laid there and slept for all but about 10 minutes of the hour test. When we were done he was ready to eat! They called someone from his floor to come get us, it took them 20 minutes! I was just about ready to go up myself when they came down. At this point he's mad cause he wants food! So the rest of Friday was pretty uneventful. His test was negative but he had more blood in his poop so the pediatrican called the pediatric surgeon in Ann Arbor to see if he wanted him down there to do a scope. He decided he wanted him observed for 24 more hours. Friday afternoon Gracie came to see me and baby Jack. So Friday night I was pretty upset when Bernie got there because I was worried about Jack and I missed Gracie like crazy! The night nurse came in his room about 7:30 pm and said that she wanted to change his tape by his IV so he didn't squirm out of it. Ok no problem. She didn't come in until 11:30! He was sleeping so good, after that he was restless the rest of the night. Strike 4! The next morning the new nurse came in and thought that Jack was a 9 month old with a heart condition! Are you kidding me! Strike 5! Friday night through Saturday morning he didn't have any more blood in his poop so they sent him home. So he's doing good now and still no blood. They said it could of been the antibiotic he was on from his last hospital visit. He is home and happy now. We just need to watch for more blood. If we find some he has to go to ER. And you better believe we will not be going to Bay Med, we will go to Covenant. Our doctor told us to go to Covenant to. Bay Med is done for us. We were not impressed at all!