Quick update on DJ

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Well, I'm home for a little bit. Mark got home from work, took his shower, ate

some leftover pizza and came over and relieved me. I have sat here doing some

research on kidney problems and trying to figure out what could be happening

with my little peanut. After this e-mail, I'm going to try to just rest for an

hour or so, and then head back over to the hospital so Mark can come home and

get some sleep before work tomorrow.

I am SOOOOOO tired!! Poor DJ was up most of the night throwing up and having a

high fever and a severe headache, along with his kidney pain. He hasn't gotten

any better throughout the day, either. My mother instincts have so far never

been wrong with my kids and illness, and something just doesn't feel right with

this. I'm really scared, actually. He has been running a fever off and on of

over 104 degrees, and with it he has a really severe headache--so bad he just

cries and cries. He is on IV fluids and IV antibiotics, but they still have no

" real " idea what's wrong with him. He has blood in his urine and is anemic, has

major pain in his right kidney area, has pain urinating, but shows no signs of a

UTI. But now today, he also has major abdominal pain that causes him to cry,

too, and his headache has REALLY kicked in. He has been sleeping on and off

throughout the day. They gave him morphine last night, but now are only giving

him Tylenol, which isn't doing much for him, not even for the fever. It will

help for about 2 hours with the fever, and will maybe bring it down to 102, but

that's about it. I feel as though the doctors are being just way too " blase "

about this, except for the resident. He did a very, very thorough examination

and history, and is concerned also. I also found out that his chest x-rays last

night showed a possibility of pneumonia, although they didn't verify that,

either. I'm wondering if it could be actually being caused by his asthma. I

left for 45 minutes this afternoon while he was sleeping to run home and clean

up a bit, and of COURSE, the urologist came in while I was gone!!! I'm going to

have to push for answers again tomorrow, I guess.

Well, I'm exhausted. I'm going to go back over to the hospital instead of

laying down--I think if I lay down now, I WON'T get back up!

Later, all

S., mom to Cody (7, pwcf, nissen for severe reflux, malnutrition,

ADHD), DJ (9, nocf, asthma, ADD), and a (14, nocf, ADHD)