My DS is sick and I'm panicking
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| Mon, 12-12-2005 - 9:24am |
I'm sure he has nothing more than a stomach bug. He was fine yesterday and woke me up around 1am with stomach pain. He had been on the toilet with diarrhea and after that his stomach began cramping up. It's intermittent and when the pain starts he then vomits. Then he feels a bit better and rests and maybe an hour later he does it again. No fever and he's very coherent. But, I can tell my hypochondria is now turning into 'hypochondria by proxy'. I find myself worrying that he is dying and that it's something serious. I was up in the middle of the night on WebMD: the one site I need to stay away from. It just made me worry worse.
For now I'm just keeping a good close eye on him. Giving him fluids, checking his temp (still no fever) and talking to him about how he's feeling. He seems a little better this morning than he was last night but is still having upper abdominal discomfort. And I think his muscles are all aching cuz he's having a heck of a time getting comfortable. If he's still like this in the afternoon I will call our family doc and see what he says.
You know, I came so close to bundling ds up and bringing him to the ER last night even though he wasn't running a fever and even though he was very uncomfortable in pain, he wasn't screaming or writhing with it. I just imagined the worst and panic set in. I'm now going on three hours of off and on sleep. I had him upstairs on the couch while I sat in the living room chair right next to him.
Please, he needs P&PTs so he can feel better quickly and so that his brother and sister don't catch this too....if it is a bug. Maybe it's food poisoning but he ate what we all ate last night and the rest of us are just fine.
I'll keep you all posted.
Thanks.

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Thanks everyone...
Cory is feeling quite a bit better this morning. I am keeping him home from school one more day today even though he really wanted to go back. (I have weird kids: They actually HATE missing school, lol) He's just coughing quite a bit now but ate some waffles this morning and is now sipping on some Gatorade.
Me, my head still hurts some but my stomach feels almost better. I'm getting 'aftermath panic' a little bit. I hate that cuz it feels almost as bad as real panic attacks. So I'm trying to keep those at bay now.
Looking back at yesterday I can't believe what we had to do. lol If only my car was working or if only I could have gotten ahold of DH. I feel kinda silly that an ambulance had to take us to the hospital for a stomach flu. But, at the time, I wasn't sure what was going on with DS and his stomach pains. Like I said, I was thinking 'worst case scenario' like appendicitis or pancreatitis. And for me, I think the combination of catching this bug and worrying about Cory caused a panic attack which made me feel even worse yesterday. I felt so desperate like I was going to have a heart attack. At the time it felt so real but in retrospect I know it was merely a panic attack. Sheesh, I hate panic attacks so much!!!!! I know everyone here can relate to that!
Jennifer
"Oh, that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evi
As a Mom you did the right thing.. better to be safe the sorry.
It is great that it is a stomach bug BUT for some reason if it wasn't you did the right thing.
Good for you Mom!
I hope that you feel better soon!
Hugs,
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