Day 3 of our adventure at St. Peter's Hospital

Well here we are again. Just to bring everyone up to speed, here is a rundown of the last few days.

Friday: Yumi came home from school with abdominal pain which started after lunch. Sometimes given a nap and time, she feels better and it passes. When it goes into the next morning is when I decide to take action. So we got up and dressed, went to the Group Health Urgent Care, got admitted, IVd with some pain meds and then admitted to St. Peters. I decided to stay in town due to the situation with our house and with Yumi being in high school, it is hard to catch up if you miss too much school. It took until 5pm to get the NG tube in with 2 tries. That's always the hardest part of these hospitalizations.

Saturday: The x-ray showed a good amount of stool in her colon so he ordered laxatives, suppositories and an enema. These were quite unpleasant. She was putting out a lot of saliva through the NG and so the liquids were clear. She had a lot of nausea and still struggled with a lot of pain through the day.

Sunday: Pretty much was just the same waiting game. The doc said that he was prepared to wait this thing out and proceed as we had been doing with laxatives and such. Sunday night her NG started to put out green gunky bial so it was apparent that things are not working quite right. It's strange that she continues to have pain. The x-ray still looks the same as well, not showing any significant blockages or expanded bowels.

Monday: I returned to the hospital and the doctor had cancelled the orders treating the constipation and is waiting this out as if it is a bowel obstruction. He mentioned he may order an Upper GI, small bowel follow-through in the morning. This is a procedure where they have her drink stuff and they take pictures every 20 minutes or so to watch what happens with the liquid, if there is a slow-down occuring and where it is happening. It was a rough day today with a surly nurse, and it was particularly rough for me. I usually can take these things in stride, but I was on the brink, I tell ya. So we are contemplating talking to the charge nurse to see if we can get moved to the pediatric floor. Right now we are on the regular surgical floor, where the youngest patient is in their 50s. No place for a 15-year old! But Yumi is not sure she wants to be moved, so we will wait and think about it some more.

I hope that brings everyone up to speed. Have a good night. I usually try to update once a day unless something significant happens. It's difficult for me to repeat the same happenings of the day to 5 or more people on the phone so if you can check the blog before you call, that would help my sanity tremendously. Thanks so much for your prayers!