Tuesday was a rough night. That afternoon Landon was spitting up this yucky, phlegm-like junk with brown stuff in it. We called the pediatric 24-hr hotline and explained what was going on. He was coughing a lot, choking and sort of throwing up this stuff. My thought was that maybe he caught a little chest cold and it was mucous. The pediatric call line though said we should probably go to the ER in case the brown stuff was blood so we did as they recommended and went to Torrance Memorial Hospital. Luckily for us the ER dept. wasn't too busy and we were helped sooner than we had expected. The doctor swabbed the gunk and came back later and informed us that it WAS blood. So, they decided to do chest x-rays and blood work on Landon. Sitting in the ER with your newborn is a horrible experience. A nurse came into our station, pricked Landon's heel, drew blood and left to go run the test results. Meanwhile, we were escorted down the hall into the x-ray room. Sonje suited up in an x-ray coat and Landon was seated on an x-ray machine. A mini x-ray "coat" was brought for Landon and they tied it around his lap. Sonje held Landon's arms and head up. That's about the time I sort of lost it a little. With Landon crying in the chair and watching all of this behind a glass, I started crying. Afterwards, I carried my little boy back and we all waited for the results. Gratefully both the blood work and the x-rays came back okay. We were told then that perhaps he has a food allergy and that we would be put in connection with a Pediatric GI doctor. The doctor said that is more common/likely so we should start there rather than going straight to other more invasive methods (ie. scope to determine if it could be an ulcer, etc). We left the hospital around 11pm on Tuesday and I was EXHAUSTED- very mentally and emotionally draining process when you don't know what is going on. So... today we made with the PGI Specialist and we are going to see if it's perhaps I'm passing a food allergen through my milk ducts with breastfeeding and we are starting with dairy products. I'm now on a dairy-free diet (do you know how hard a dairy-free diet is...I'm surprised). We will try that for a couple weeks and see that's the problem. Please keep Landon in your prayers that this is all that is going on. It's not uncommon with babies to have an allergy to dairy and a lot of times, babies even outgrow this around 1 year old. Thank you for your prayers for Landon that we get this resolved and that its just a minor reaction to dairy.
Waiting for a nurse/doctor to come in to greet us
Landon was so cute. He was so tired and probably wasn't feeling all that well and yet he still smiled at everyone who came into the station. When the doctor was listening to his heart via the stethoscopes, he was watching the doctor, smiling away. Then the nurse came to prick his heel, he was smiling at her as she was rubbing the alcohol on his foot. He is just soooo sweet and happy. Have you ever seen such a sweetie pie in the ER room. He's so precious!!
2 comments:
Poor sweet little guy! i remember how scary it was for us to have the baby in the hospital with RSV for over a week. My three year old had to have syo milk until he was 1. My thoughts are you guys and your baby!
sorry to hear Shan. I hope all is ok.
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