~ Our little Scare ~

Ok, first of all I'd like to say that my prayers go out to those parents out there that have to deal with sick/hospitalized children on a daily basis. With that, here is what we went through yesterday. So our morning started out normal...kids woke up early, ate breakfast and began their daily routine of playing, whinning etc. Then Aidan came up to me whimpering that his tummy hurt. I figured that he hadn't gone poop yet and that he just needed to go to the bathroom. He did, but only a little bit. Then he didn't bother me for a bit. Next thing I know he's crying and complaining his tummy hurts. I tried to console him but nothing seemed to settle him down. After about an hour of this I figured he still needed to go the bathroom and was maybe a little constipated (which is unlike him in the first place). So I sat him down but nothing came and the pain got worse and the next thing I know he's throwing up! Then his eyes start rolling back like he's going to pass out (all of this happening while he's sitting on the toilet). Instantly my red flag popped up and something told me "something is really wrong" so I called David (for the fourth time by now) and told him to get home NOW!! This time he didn't argue with me and tell me that I was just over-reacting (which I usually do...yes I'll admit it I'm one of those moms). So while I was trying to keep Aidan awake Jason popped by to take a look at him. Pretty soon David got home and we were off to the doctors. After the doctor examined him she told us "to me it looks like either a bowl obstruction or appendicitis...so I'm going to call an ambulance and get him transported to the ER for further evaluation." Get this, her next line was "now I don't mean to alarm or scare you..." ummmm, a little to late for THAT!! Anytime you hear "appendicitis" and "ambulance" in the same sentence it's not very reassuring that your kid is going to be ok! So they did some more lab work, Aidan threw up two more times and I happened to catch it (why do mom's instinctively catch pewk!?) and pretty soon we were riding in an ambulance to the Dorenbecher (sorry for all the spelling mistakes by the way) childrens hospital ER. When we got there he threw up again and I caught it yet again and then the doctors there started poking and evaluating him. I lost count how many times they drew blood or checked his annal cavity. I'm sure I broke down a few times during the day. Who wants to see their child in this much pain!? No one. Finally one of the four doctors taking care of Aidan came in and told us his diagnosis...something similar to bowel obstruction, and I'm not even going to try and spell what it was he said so I'll just describe what it was. Basically part of your intestine relapses inside itself like a telescope and gets stuck and is very painful and causes a bit of an obstruction, causing abdominal pain, vomiting etc etc. He said he wanted to do some more tests to see if it was really that and then they would think about tests for appendicitis...so yep that still wasn't out of the picture. So they put and IV in him to give him some much need fluids (that wasn't fun to watch) then they sent him for an X-ray. When we got back from that it dawned on me that we hadn't given him a blessing yet. So I asked David to give Aidan a blessing and he quietly leaned over and offered a priesthood blessing. Right after giving the blessing David told me Aidan was going to be just fine. Soon we were headed to the ultrasound lab to see if was this intestine telescope thing and to see if they could see his appendix. Anyhoo, when we got back to his room after this it was like nothing had even happened to Aidan! He did a total 180! He started walking around, being his little inquisitive self, looking at all the things with wheels in the rooms, pointing out colors and being sassy! Then the doc came in to examine him with kind of a weird look on his face. He said the ultrasound didn't show anything, but he said he knew he felt the bulge when he did his initial exam and now the bulge was gone. David and i just looked at eachother and we knew that Heavenly Father answered our prayers and healed our son (or else he would have had to have a air enema and a possible CAT scan to rule out appendicitis). The doc was even confused at his sudden recovery! He said that this sort of condition will on a rare occasion cure itself but usually they have to fix it. He said Aidan was a lucky kid, but we knew luck had nothing to do with it....it was all Heavenly Father!

The moral of the story, give a blessing sooner! I am sooo grateful to be a member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and to be married to an amazing husband who is worthy to hold and us the priesthood blessings as we see fit to use them. I have a stronger testimony now for priesthood and the power of prayer. And I'm still thanking my heavenly father for helping heal our little Aidan! To the Young's, Thank you soo much for taking Xander and Hailee at the last minute and watching them all day and for cooking our meal for the Goodmans (sorry about that Marykaye and Chad). And to the Mollenhauers, Thank You for helping watch our kids too. You guys are amazing friends and we can't thank you enough. We really do appreciate it. We are so grateful to be surrounded by such amazing friends who we really see as Family! Thank you all so much!