between posts. In February Emily was hospitalized in Texas for 4 days for abdominal pain, a partial obstruction and a virus. We started out at Children's at Legacy and they transferred us to Dallas Children's downtown. The ER there blew us off and said they didn't agree with Legacy about the obstruction. We explained that even if they didn't agree with that diagnosis she was showing signs of pancreatitis. Because Legacy had already given a dose of Toradol her pain was better and downtown said she wasn't in distress and sent her home. As we had told Dallas Children's she would, Em got worse during the night. We took her the next morning to Dr. Baker (her gastro doc) and he admitted her, took an X-ray and found the same partial obstruction that Legacy had found the day before. So she spent 4 days as an in patient. "Go Dallas Children's", needless to say we won't be going back there.
The rest of February was pretty uneventful until the 24th when she was "kicked out of school". The school administrators had never felt she was truly a special education qualifier other than for her health issues. They, along with her teacher assessed her at an advanced kindergarten level. So she was dismissed from the special education Pre K program and will enroll in kindergarten in the fall under the general education umbrella as home bound program.
March has been a fairly busy month. We spent 4 days in Louisiana at Schumpert testing her line and then replacing it. Luckily it was able to be placed in the same place as the old one came out of so there was no loss of site. We came home on Tuesday and Emily started complaining and waking up crying with belly pain. She had an appt with Dr Baker on Thursday and seemed to be fine although complaining intermittently. We made it home and within a couple of hours she was screaming in uncontrollable pain. So Dr Baker admitted her and here we sit. She seemed to be getting some better on Friday and by Saturday afternoon she was getting worse again. Pain meds are working somewhat but she still has pain and we have to do away with one of the meds today.
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