Driving Down the Hallway

My hat's off to those parents out there who have had to spend lots of time in the hospital with their children. You are the unsung heroes of the world.

Last night was our first brush with the Pediatric Emergency Room and we hope it was our last. Although, with a certain someone's proclivity for wild abandon toward bat swinging it might not be. Let's just cross our fingers and toes and hope for the best from here on out.

It was a run of the mill Tuesday night here, I had left for work and was getting my groove on at work when my phone lit up with a call from the hubs. And, he never I mean never calls me at work. The nature of my job means that I can't usually answer a call and so it's just the way it goes. I sent him to voice-mail and thought maybe he was just calling to tell me something ridiculously cute that the Little Dude had done. He's big into intentionally C.U.T.E. these days.

Then he texted, "Call home as soon as you can. Buddy is not okay.". Whoa, this is not what I was expecting. Long story short due to a very gracious co-worker I drove home as fast as my little wheels could legally take me.

From the moment I walked in it was evident that neither one of us wanted to wait out the two hours it would take for the pediatrician to call back. We ate some dinner exceedingly quickly and made the scary journey to the ER. As we were searching for a spot, said pediatrican called back and said that's exactly where he was going to send us.

No firm answers as to what his global pain was caused by, but they incidentally found an ear infection and think it's possible it was intussusception, a condition whereby the bowels telescope in on themselves. This can be intermittent and we'll just have to keep an eye on things. The goal here is to get an ultrasound when it's happening, so getting him to a doctor ASAP if it happens again (hopefully it won't).

Speaking of ultrasounds, that woman had the magic touch he serendaded her with the ABC's and Jingle Bells and told her he'd work on Silent Night.  Maybe he was in such a good mood when we got to her because we got to "drive the bed" down the hallway to get to her.

By far, the highlight of his night!

(Thanking our lucky starts to have a happy healthy little boy at home!)