Appendicitis

Let me rewind to while we were still in Disney.  I noticed that Matthew was breathing as if he wasn't feeling well/something was bothering him one day (don't remember which, maybe friday).  He was getting mad at me because I was watching him wondering what was going on.  Saturday he didn't eat anything and made comments of him stomach hurting a bit at breakfast and dinner, but acted fine otherwise.  Sunday before we left he was swimming in the pool.  At the airport is when I started to notice he wasn't feeling well.  He just laid down at the airport and slept the whole flight home.  During the flight my mother in-law said he had a fever.  I just figured he picked something up during our trip and gave him something for the fever.  As soon as we walked into the house he threw up.  He stayed home from school on Monday and Tuesday with a fever.  But, I didn't see anything else wrong with him.  When I asked if anything was hurting he commented about near his leg...thinking it was muscle aches from the fever.  Tuesday I started thinking maybe he had a bladder or kidney infection.  He wasn't complaining about real pain, but I wasn't seeing anything else wrong.  So, I took him to the doctors.  She did a strep and urine test, both came back negative.  While she was feeling his stomach he tensed up and she turned to me and said she was worried about his appendix.  She made him get up and jump, and he was able to so she was beginning to think maybe it was just a viral thing.  I was too worried to just let in go in case it was his appendix.  So, off to the hospital we went for a CT Scan.  We waited for hours.  Finally, I was back in the waiting room waiting to get a call from his doctor.  As soon as she called and said it was his appendix I started crying.  How was I going to tell him he needed an operation?  We went over to the Children's Hospital ER in our hospital.  They ran an IV (his second of the day) and said they wanted to transfer us over to the main Children's Hospital.  So, we waited for an ambulance.  When we got to the main Children's Hospital we had to do their ER (where they ran his third IV) while surgeons looked at his CT results.  They eventually scheduled his surgery and moved us to a room.  They took him to surgery around midnight and walked us to the surgery waiting room at 12:30.  Kissing him goodbye and seeing them wheel him away was the hardest thing.  While they were closing him up the nurse called to say they were almost done, he was doing fine and the dr. would be out to see us in 15-20 minutes.  The doctor came out and told us it was clearly appendicitis and usually the top 2/3 are inflamed, but his was the whole entire thing.  Shortly after the doctor left a nurse came out to get us saying Matthew was ready to go back up to his room.  We finally got there at 2:30 Wednesday morning, and tried to get some sleep.  After that it was pretty much the same thing for two days...nurses coming in to check his vitals, give him pain medicine.  He still isn't really eating and they almost weren't going to let him come home until he did, but thankfully yesterday the nurse said if I was comfortable taking him home I could.  So, last night we took him home.  I am hoping that being home will raise his spirits and improve his appetite.

Pardon the quality of the pictures...they were taken with my phone.

Getting his second IV...this one at Children's ER still at Parker Adventist

 Ambulance ride over to Children's Hospital

 Finally in a room...trying to get some rest before surgery.

 Waking up for the first time after surgery.

I can't get this to flip with the picture below.  Up and feeling a bit better.  Actually ready for a snack.  It ended up that he didn't eat anything else besides these few goldfish.