Just another Manic Monday

Alex has been sick with flu like symptoms for a week. It has been coming and going so we did not think too much of it. On Monday night he was in so much pain and Andy went to cuddle with him. When he went to rub his tummy it was rock hard. I called instacare and they stopped taking patients at 8 and this was 7:45. I knew we were not going to make it. I was told that we could go Urgent care at one of the hospitals so I called and they took our insurance so we were off. We got there and they did an exam on Alex and then some x-rays. They came back saying it was a blockage of some kind of his intestines and the surgeon was on his way down. I was freaking out, I did not think it was this bad. Then they said they would have to put in an NG tube to get the air out of his stomach. Alex was so brave and did not cry at all with any of the procedures. I held his hand and did some Lamaze breathing with him. The nurse told me later that she told the doctor there was no way she was doing that that it would be impossible on a kid. Boy was she surprised. She told us she wants Alex to teach classes on how to be calm during procedures.
After this the surgeon came in and said they were still debating on where to send us, if he needed to go to PCMC or if they could do the surgery here. The radiologist came back and said he thought the blockage was just from inflammation from his illness and not from anything so surgery was not needed. We were out of the woods. However, he did need to stay the night. By this time it was 10:30 and I was not prepared to stay the night. I called Andy and told him and we decided it would be best for me to stay so he did not have to wake Logan up.
Alex had to get some morphine to help him sleep but he was fine after that. They would not let him eat until lunch and as soon as his blood sugar came up he was fine. In fact he was so grumpy because he just wanted to go home and eat something. Finally at 6 last night they released us from the hospital. He seems to be doing great now and we have no real diagnosis of what really happened. It was a crazy two days but we are thankful it was not any worse.
Alex and his elephant nose.
His very concerned brother had to stay right by him for the first little while.
The tube finally gets removed and we see a smile. Alex jumped out of bed as soon as he was given the all clear to go home. Logan immediately climbed onto the bed to play around. I think he wants one of those cool beds for himself at home.