Catchin' Things Up-Post 3

All about the little boy's issues....like I said it all started about a week after he turned four months old. When i was up in Boise the pediatrician had me up his dose of Prevacid from 30mg to 45mg. He was in a lot of pain especially at night, grimacing, kicking, letting out screams and just not being able to relax. The doctor said we would be able to tell by the end of the weekend if the new dose would help. After the first couple days he only woke up once at night. I was so happy! We left Monday morning thinking everything was great again. Well, it didn't take long for him to get worse again :( the pediatrician had us drop the dose of Prevacid back down to 30mg and also add one tsp off rice cereal to every two ounces of formula. It seemed to help the first night and then things even got worse. Our last resort was adding Zantac. Now he is off the rice cereal and taking 15mg of Prevacid and .8ml of Zantac twice a day. Things haven't gotten better. He started having diarrhea so I called our pediatrician and they had us bring him in. We found out he has cankers in his throat which are aggravating the reflux caused by an infection. All I can say is this boy is TOUGH! I took him over to the hospital last night and they had to draw blood to do some labs. They couldn't get all the needed from his arm so they had to use his hand too. It was rough to watch him go through that, but it wasn't nearly as bad as when he was in special care. It brought back a flood of memories ones that are so tender and still so new! This little guy has been through a lot in his short life.




Little Brin has had a horrible time with her hair! I took her in to get her baby hair cut off and hopefully that will help her new hair grow in. I told her she was getting her hair cut like a princess and she did great!