Don't you just love those 12 am ER visits?

So after we all went to bed Monday night, I was awakened by the sounds of Kyle crying. I went to check on him and he says his stomach hurt. I calmed him down a little bit and went back to bed to sleep. About 15 minutes later he wakes me up again, but this time he is almost screaming that "it hurts". So I do the mom thing and ask him if it's hungry hurt, if he has to go to the bathroom, check his forhead and press on his belly (thinking possible appendix issue), etc. Finally, after about 45 min I call Tim (who's in CA this week - it's always when he's on a trip) and ask him what he thinks I should do. He says what I'm thinking, head to the ER. I wake up the girls and get them in coats and boots and they head to the car. I literally have to carry Kyle to the car 'cause he can't walk and as I'm getting my stuff to go he opens his car door and throws up! So the girls are sleepy and scared and I'm trying to get a towell and a puke bowl and off we head at 12:30 in the morning. We get there and I carry him in to the waiting area, sign in and wait. Luckily not too long, the nurse calls us back and I carry him in to have his vitals taken and then they get a gurney to wheel him to the room. He gets an xray, has blood drawn, gives a urine sample and we wait. Meanwhile they give him an anti-spasm medication in the IV and he takes a couple of super tylenol. He's still in pain and we're just waiting. The girls are tired and it's supposed to be another hour until we get lab results back so I called my AWESOME friend, Kelly to take the girls to her house so they can get some sleep. No sooner than that, the doc comes back and says it's not his appendix, not kidney stones, but there is a LOT of air in his colon. He says it's probably IBS or spastic colon. Not much to do but wait it out, maybe give him a mild narcotic to relax him and let him go to sleep and hopefully it'll be better in the morning. So they do that and we have to wait about a half hour to see if he's responding and not having any reaction, etc. Meanwhile, Kelly shows up and I ask her to wait to see if we can leave or if Kyle will need to stay longer. Finally the doc says he can go home, but we need to moniter him for 8-12 hours to be sure it's not something more serious. Kyle is about asleep and relaxing from the medication so we all leave, carrying Kyle to the car, of course, and get home about 3:30 am and everyone gets back to bed. I wait and call in to work that I won't be in and we all sleep in til 9 am. Phew, what a night/morning! He's fine now, we're $600 more broke, and we have to change his diet. No carbonation or caffeine, more fiber, less fat, lots of fruits and veggies, but not the gas producing kind, etc. Luckily there hasn't been a re-occurance, hopefully there won't be.

I'll be so glad when Tim gets home from his trip.