For the average child throwing up a large amount once may possibly warrent a phone call to the doctor. For a Spina Bifida child it is a call to the Neurosurgeon and a trip to the ER. Sometimes life feels like one big emergency...
Katie threw up yesterday. I hate watching my kids go through that to begin with but with her the thought crosses my mind immediately; is her shunt malfunctioning? Will we need a complete revision? Is it brain surgery all over again? Called Dr. Yount's office who had us go to the ER for a CT scan. After hours of waiting we find out it is not her shunt :::phew::: However she has a lot of fluid in both ears, abnormal for a child her age. She also threw up again in the ER. After another hour they decide to keep her in the Pediatric ICU (PICU). I guess Katie wants to meet the entire Memorial Children's Hospital staff; NICU and PICU :)
We stayed over night and at this point she doesn't seem to be fighting an infection, which is not a good sign. She is getting antibiotics and is sleeping a lot. She is not herself. She's really unhappy, her eyes are red and she looks like she feels miserable... a mother's heart break. Dr. Wheet should be coming today to look at her and the staff here is amazing. It's hard to watch your child go through this. She isn't keeping any food down at all. I'm nervous to feed her again.
_shunt malfunctioned, rushed to Riley, home the next day.
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