Tommy Update

Tommy is doing pretty good, all things considered!! He is still not eating, but is drinking and is really enjoying pediasure. Eating will come in time when he is feeling better. He is a little distraught that his belly button is now an outie, he used to be an innie and loved to play in his belly button. He was laying on the lovesac earlier today holding his shirt up rolling his belly button in between his fingers! He actually sat up on his own today and crawled a little when we let CoCo in!! And, has only had his Tylenol with codeine two times today!!

Intussusception

http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/surgical/intussusception.html

Try saying that 3 times fast! That is what Tommy was diagnosed with Monday morning. Lets start at the beginning... about a day after Tommy broke his leg he started throwing up, we figured it was from the pain of his broken leg, then he started to have diarrhea, so we figured he got the flu. He was doing both probably 3-4 times a day. He hasn't had much of an appetite since he broke his leg either. Saturday(11/1) he started grabbing under his belly button and screamed a scream that I have never heard him do before, he was flipping around, couldn't be comforted and you could tell he was in pain. He did that for about 10 minutes before he finally let Keith pick him up. Through out the night he continued screaming every 30-45 minutes, but never as bad as that first one. Then he threw up all over Keith several times. It was very dark and very stinky, I ran him up to the doctor, they told me he was dehydrated and sent us to the emergency room. The ER doctor did an x-ray to role out intussusception, the x-ray came back negative for it, so we hydrated and went home with discharge instructions. Sunday Tommy did great drinking almost a whole gallon of gatorade and ate a little toast and mashed potatoes. Sunday night he had his first poopy diaper since he woke up Saturday morning. It looked like baby poop, but was brick red! After calling several medically inclined people we know (thanks guys!) I decided that I would let Tommy stay asleep and watch him while he slept and take him in to his pediatrician for a follow up first thing Monday morning. He did fine overnight. Monday we got the the pediatrician and he again wasn't eating or drinking. She pushed on his belly and said she was concerned about intussusception and was sending us back to the ER to do another x-ray but this time with berium. She told us that he could have it but it just wasn't present on Saturday. So back to the ER we go. We had the Chief Pediatric ER doctor as our doctor! She was great!! And Tommy did end up having intussusception. Unfortunately the berium enema x-ray did not clear Tommy up all the way, so they had to do emergency surgery on him.

This is Tommy getting ready to go upstairs for his surgery, I didn't have my camera with me, so I had to do phone pictures to be able to blog! He did great during his surgery and even got his appendix taken out! Kindof a two for the price of one deal!! No, the appendix is usually affected by this disease and needs to come out to get all the infection! He had a hard time waking up from the anesthetic, but was a trooper! We had a rough night, Tommy was in quite a bit of pain, but right now is not hooked up to the IV and is only taking tylenol for pain!! He is drinking, not eating yet, but is on the right track!! Thank you everyone for helping with David and with giving Tommy blessings and your prayers and thoughts!! Sorry we missed your big night Janine, and sorry Sarene that we are missing your birthday today! We hopefully will be seeing the doctor in the next few hours to see when we get to go home! The surgeon said last night 3-4 days, but the nurse is hopeful we will be able to go today!! Keep your fingers crossed!!

Good News For...

Keith!

We just found out that in December Keith will be going to Range Master School through the Department, and that he finished in the top 20 from the Senior and Sargent exams! Yeah Keith!!

Trick or Treat

Here is our pumpkin we carved tonight...it's an alien!

Here's how it looked lite up!

Commander Cody aka David

Darth Vader aka Tommy

Commander Cody and Darth Vader getting ready to go trick or treating

They had a great time trick or treating and came back full of candy! It was funny, when they came home from trick or treating we dumped their candy in a pile so I could go through it. Tommy picked up his bucket, dumped it upside down and started crying! Poor baby thought he lost all his treats! He was fine when his suckers got put back in his bucket!

Broken Leg ~ Day 2

Our first night with a broken leg was horrible! Tommy couldn't sleep, so when Keith got home at 11pm, I in my pajamas left to go to WalMart and get some Motrin and ended up getting pulled over!! For what...not signaling my turn!!! Don't worry though, I didn't get a ticket, the officer told me to use my turn signals! After we got some motrin in, he fell asleep and slept all night!

This morning Tommy figured out how to crawl with his cast. And this afternoon he was trying to stand up!
Almost got it....

And he did it! He can only stand for a second then falls down, it's like he is learning how to walk all over again. He gets a big smile on his face when he stands up!
I went to Mervyn's earlier today to get Tommy some pants and pajamas that I could cut to make them fit over his cast. This is Tommy tonight right before bed with his foot jammies on!
Overall he is doing much better and we only had to take Motrin one time today! He was able to get comfortable enough to take a two hour nap and go right to sleep at bedtime!!

Pumpkin Patch and a Cast!!

Thursday night I took the boys to the pumpkin patch, they had a blast!!

We looked at and bought pumpkins, went on pony ridesand rode the other rides they had there! The big slide was a lot of fun! Except....Tommy broke his leg!!!

As best as I can figure, his foot got caught under him as he was going down the slide. About halfway down the slide he started crying, I figured it was just because he got scared. I picked him up and carried him the rest of the night, not knowing anything was wrong, figuring he was tired and scared. When we got home and I put him down he fell to the ground unable to put any weight on it. I took him to QuickCare where they did a pelvic xray and told me he twisted his leg and would be fine in the morning. He woke up Friday morning still unable to stand or even have his leg touched. I got him in with the orthopedic surgeon this afternoon and Tommy's right tibia has a spiral break! They casted him up to his thigh!

He was such a trooper! And a totally different much happier little boy since the cast has been on!

David is super excited about his brother's cast! And couldn't wait to sign it tonight!!

Mines!

David's class went to the mines in Nelson yesterday for a field trip. The kids had a great time! Keith got to go with them. Here are some of the pictures from it!!