Too Much Hospital!!!

Wow! Long time no blog! We have had kind of a busy summer!

So April was crappy with Sawyer being in the hospital for a week with RSV, and then we had consecutive hospital visits in May and June! Wow, done now right? Please!

In May, a couple of days after school ended, Mychigan was riding her bike and was going too fast when she crashed. She flew over the handlebars and landed on both of her wrists then rolling and smacking her head and side and legs too. We went into the emergency room because it happened at 8 PM, and nothing else was open. She had X-rays, because we thought she had broken both of her wrists. Thankfully, she didn't, but she sprained them and bruised them up really good. She was in double splints for a couple of weeks... Poor baby! But she took it well... :( So then came June. We did fine through the whole month, until on Sunday June 26th, Sabryna started having cramping type pains. She felt like she would throw up and did several times. She had a low grade fever. She had such severe pain in her abdomen that she couldn't walk upright. She said that the pain started in her belly button and then moved lower, concentrated on her right side, but still had pain through her whole abdomen. So I decided to look up the symptoms of appendicitis on the Internet, and she had EVERY ONE!!! So to the ER we headed again.

The doctors there took some blood, started and IV, urine sample, and an ultrasound. All were negative. She had an elevated white count, and a slightly enlarged spleen. They said they thought it was Mono. (?!?! Duh!) They didn't want to do a CT scan because they didn't want to expose her to that much radiation, and "damage my grandchildren". Urg. Dumb hospital! They sent us home, with orders to come back in the morning and sooner if her pain didn't get better or got worse through the night. We made it to the parking lot. She was still in so much pain, that after debating in the car for a while, we went back in and told them we wanted to be admitted. I wanted the CT scan, and further testing. So they called the pediatrician (THANK YOU!) and he ordered a CT scan. Lo and behold! She had an appendicitis! Just like I thought in the beginning. So, at 12:45 AM on June 27th, Sabryna had her appendix out. It was a crazy time, but super glad I didn't take her home!!!

She had a drain tube that we got taken out two days later, and she even went to girls camp later that day! Needless to say she is healing well. :) So far Summer has been a crazy ride!

I think I'm ready for some boring.... :)