Things have been busy in a not-so-good way. We wound up in the emergency room Wednesday night with Lewis. I had really been hoping to avoid any hospital visits until his strabismus surgery next month...but apparently LJ decided he needed an adventure!
It all started with an appointment downtown Wednesday afternoon. I went alone because Josh works downtown and planned to meet me there. Nate had his nap over at Didi and Bops so everyone was taken care of. However, we had not planned on one of the bridges into DC being closed. Due to a shooting traffic was horrible. The appointment went fine.
Contending with the traffic jam on the way home tried my patience. It took LJ and I about 45 minutes to go .25 miles. Needless to say he was not a happy camper and decided to pitch a very loud, screaming fit. He was hungry and cranky. I threw in the towel and decided to pull over and wait for the traffic to die down. We walked a little bit, and got a tasty beverage while we waited- a glass of vino for me, milk for LJ. (Josh was in a separate car.) We boogied when traffic started looking like it was moving. LJ was still hooked up to the feeding pump.
Things didn't go south until we had driven up the driveway and I tried taking him out of his carseat. The tube caught on the carseat and something made a "pop" sound. It really freaked me out to see the entire gtube dangling from the carseat and an open hole in Noodles' stomach! When he had the gtube surgery the first time in Georgetown NICU the button popped out several times....this was our main fear that the second surgery wouldn't take. The entire balloon part of the button/tube was still completely inflated. So here we are again. Only I felt guilty that this was all my fault. Sigh.
I called the surgeon and the doctor on call told us to get the ER as fast as I could- we don't want infection nor do we want the hole to close. I called Josh hysterically and told him to meet me there. I called Didi and Bop and told them "change of plans, could you please keep Nate until we can come get him." I cried the entire way to the hospital...not just because I had disgusting stomach stuff all over my clothes but because I really was scared they wouldn't be able to put in another gtube. The doctor could not have been nicer- she said this was more common than I would think. She didn't have the correct size button but luckily I had an emergency back up one in the car. When the new one was in place, she gave him a dye contrast to see via xray and check the placement. After waiting about an hour, we noticed a giant hive on the node under his armpit. Then more hives started appearing. We called the nurse and he got the doctor. Now it seems Noodles is allergic to Gastroview! We had to stay for him to be observed.
I do have to say that it wasn't too bad as far as ER visits go. It could have definitely been worse. Mostly we just hung out while he got benadryl pumped into him & the docs made sure the allergic reaction did not cause any trouble breathing.
Everybody's home now.
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