Kidney stones

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Well, another adventure in the Botch house yesterday. We all got up early to

attend my son's hoops game at 9AM. Right after we paid admission and got in the

gym told us he didn't feel good. Since he just got eating about 10

pancakes before we left the house I assumed he needed to take a bm. Dad took

him to lav, nothing happened.

Needless to say, I left the game with because he continued to say he didn't

feel good. Well, he had a bm at home, but not the trots as I had suspected and

he continued to be in excruciating pain for the next hour or so. I watched him

carefully and he kept curling up in a ball and holding his left side. I

immediately thought the worst, something with his kidneys or his appendix. When

Don got home he thought we should take him to the pediatrician, which he did.

began to vomit in the car on the way there and continued to be in extreme

pain.

Ped. couldn't figure it out so Ry was sent to the hospital and admitted for

tests. Fortunately we didn't have to take him to emergency, they just admitted

him to the pediatric ward right away. By the time I met Don there didn't

seem very good. It absolutely killed me to see him in such pain and

crying......which he rarely does. I had to keep hiding my tears from him

because I couldn't do anything to take his pain away. They hooked him up to an

IV because of the vomiting and I notice as I held him on the bed that he was

holding a little lower on his stomach to show me where it hurt. I kept telling

Don that I believed it was a kidney stone. No one else seemed concerned with my

diagnosis. Well, A COUPLE HOURS later, as we were taking him to another floor

for xrays, he continued to cry in pain but I noticed he was holding down even

lower towards his penis. He endured the xrays (they were thinking bowel

obstruction) and when he got back to the room the nurse said they still needed a

urine specimen and asked to try to use the bathroom.

Well, he sat down and as we held the container there to catch his urine he

started to pee, and winced, and then went. As soon as he was done peeing he was

IMMEDIATELY better and back to the gabby, laughing, happy boy we know. I mean

IMMEDIATELY! I looked in the container to see if he passed anything before

giving it to the nurse and didn't see anything. But I'm telling you, he was

absolutely fine from that moment on!

The doctor looked at all the bloodwork and xrays and could not think of anything

else it could be except a kidney stone. We're supposed to filter his urine for

48 hours. No restrictions of any kind as far as diet either. Has anybody's

child had a kidney stone? I thought it was quite unusual for someone 's age

to get one. They did caution that the stone could have just moved to his

bladder and still need to be passed, but there's a good chance the IV they gave

him flushed it out.

There is nothing worse in this world than seeing a child in such pain and not

being able to make it go away. I think I aged another 10 years in one day

yesterday!

Jackie, Mom to 17ds, 14, Bradley 11 (who called at 11:30 last night

from his sleepover to make sure his brother is ok! : ) )