Update

So, Ricky's pain got very bad early in the morning, 3ish? or so. The nurse gave him some Tylenol but he was vocalizing rather vehemently about his belly hurting. This kid has a rather high pain tolerance so it must have been pretty bad. I asked the nurse if he could have something stronger and she paged the resident, who had been in shortly before, and he said Ricky could have Toradol (sp?). She got it stat from the lab and gave it by IV. Ricky had instant relief, which was relief for Mom too, as it is so hard to watch your own child in pain.

The resident had said to me that he'd never seen this treatment regimen not work on someone. He was a bit flummoxed. Another resident came in early this morning and said they were going to do a gastrographin enema on Ricky.

I took that opportunity to get Misty and me home for a shower (me) and change of clothes (both of us). We went to my mom's to bring Easter stuff to Andrew and do an egg hunt. A little normalcy was nice. Then back to the hospital with both kids.

So a bit after we got back to the hospital, I gave Ricky the gastrographin enema. It was actually a combination of things that nearly always works. Dave (Misty's dad, a peds nurse) calls it "roto rooter". Ricky has been wanting me to do the enemas. Shy and not feeling well.

The enema produced some poop, but not really enough. Ricky was exhausted and proceeded to sleep for quite a while.

Our friend Rachel brought her kids to visit (and took Misty for a while so I could rest!). While they were gone, Ricky's O2 sats dropped into the 80s suddenly (it's usually high 90s, and has been low to mid 90s through this hospitalization). Through this whole poop thing, at least his lungs were doing better. Now the nurse said he sounded bad on the left. The RT came in to sit him up and do his breathing treatment (no easy task when someone is asleep). He was still satting low so he had to go onto oxygen. He wouldn't tolerate the nasal cannula because he still has the NG tube in (he's getting a lot of Go-Lytely again) so he had to go with the mask, which has minimum flow of 6L. Oh well, one battle at a time.

So now we are waiting for poop. Hey, why have lofty goals? :)