It started on Thursday morning around 5:30. He got up to go to the bathroom and cried out for me to come help him. He said his stomach and back hurt worse than they ever have before, and he started vomiting. After that, he couldn't lay, sit, or stand. EVERYTHING was horribly uncomfortable to him. I said to Jeff, "This looks like how I feel when I get a kidney stone!" By 6:00, Jeff rushed him off to the emergency room while I got Landon ready for school. I was then able to join Logan at the ER. At first the doctors and nurses were playing it off like he had a bad stomach bug, but my "mother" heart knew we were dealing with more than a stomach bug. Finally, once we were able to get a urine sample from him, they found lots of blood in his urine and decided they had better check for a kidney stone, although the ER doctor assured me kidney stones don't happen in children Logan's age. Sure enough, the CT scan showed a kidney stone. My heart broke for Logan. They think a combination of his family history of kidney stones, and a medication he was on to control his migraine headaches were the culprits. So now Logan is not taking his medicine that was helping to prevent migraines, and that in itself is going to be a separate journey that we will need to deal with.
Anyhow, they decided to admit him to the hospital because his pain was so severe and he needed IV medications to control it. He was also dehydrated, so he needed IV fluids, as well. We spent Thursday night in the hospital, with no luck passing the kidney stone. By Friday, his pain was under good control. The urologist decided that if his pain could be controlled by oral pain killers, he could go home and try to pass the stone at home. Luckily, oral pain killers worked well for Logan, so we came home Friday afternoon. The urologist said that if he didn't pass the stone by Monday, he would hook us up with a pediatric urologist who will then surgically remove the stone.
Well, we still haven't seen that Logan has passed the stone (we have to strain all of his urine), but as of now (Sunday) he has been in NO PAIN for almost two days! He hasn't needed his pain killer since Friday night! I don't think he has passed the stone, but since he is in no pain, I am now wondering! We will call the urologist tomorrow and see what his thoughts are, but we are so happy and relieved to have our "normal" Logan back! I am praying he passed the stone and we somehow missed it, since surgery is still a possibility, but we are happy for now!
I will update more when I know more! Here is a picture of poor Logan when he was in the hospital and feeling pretty crummy!
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