Mr. C

I will post pics from Cinderella's birthday party tomorrow evening (hopefully), but our Sunday was turned upside down when Mr. C started to cry uncontrollably. We knew he was constipated so we didn't wait any longer and took him to the ER. The ER at Children's was crazy and that is putting it mildly! We had to wait 2 hours before we got back into a room and was seen by a doctor.

The poor boy had to have an enema and was NOT happy about that! When that didn't work fast enough, an Xray was taken to see what was going on. He had MAJOR stool backup and it was causing his colon to be dilated which was quite serious. The doctor prescribed three strong meds including laxatives and stool softeners. He's home from school for 2 days so that hopefully he gets cleaned out. Poor boy! We arrived home AFTER 2am and so I am heading to bed now after getting less than 4 hours of sleep.

The biggest challenge is getting the medicine in him because he gags and throws up when we give it to him. So, I came up with the idea of freezing the miralax mixed with water in small ice cubes (he loves to chomp ice) and give him water (with miralax mixed in) with ice cubes and that worked like a trick! He drank all of the required meds with Miralax! He also has another liquid laxative to drink and we are hoping he takes it tomorrow. It's so challenging to get him to understand that he HAS to have these meds!!