Emergency Room

Well, it is "only" 10:10 pm here but I am completely exhausted! I hardly slept at all last night and then spent the entire morning at the hospital. Yesterday night while we were at church Gavin wanted to run around in the gym. No big deal right!? Well I guess his shoe got caught in the stickiness of the gym floor and he face planted right on his nose. So of course I rip him up off the floor as he is screaming! I'm trying to calm him down and check his face for anything that might be bleeding. Nothing is but normally when he falls at home if I will pick him up he stops crying within 3 min. Well, it has now been about 10 and he can't calm himself down. I can tell he is really still in a lot of pain. Of course I am racking my brain trying to figure out what could be wrong with him. He continues to cry for about 30 min. He NEVER does that. So, I'm beginning to freak out just a little. Clearly something is still really wrong. I call the pediatrician and have to leave a message with the answering service and wait for them to call me back. In the mean time, we have a lot of doctors and nurses at our church so I'm walking around looking for anyone that could help me take a look at him. I find a few and everyone looks his face over and feels his nose, etc. and determines that nothing is broken and that he is probably just hurt, scared and tired. Probably right. So we go back upstairs and I finally get him to calm down. He is sitting on Joshua's floor playing with his guitar. He then tries to turn around and stand up and walk towards me as I watch him crumble to the ground and start crying again. Well, now I know something is wrong with one of his legs but I am also freaking out again. So I find a different nurse that looks over his feet/ankles and he's not really acting like pushing on them hurts. Plus it kinda looks like he takes a few steps toward me so I figure, well maybe he's ok. So back to Joshua's office. Then he starts really falling apart. He can out pressure on it and wants to be running around but it apparently hurts because he keeps falling down when he tries to go somewhere and can't get to a standing position by himself. So back down stairs and the the children's office. They find a doctor for me and just so happens a man that we know, I just didn't know he was a PA. So he actually watches him play for awhile and determines that it's his hip that is bothering him and that we are fine to go home but need to see the pediatrician tomorrow. Well, it's now past his bed time and we get in the car and head home. On my way the on call nurse calls back. I tell her that he's asleep in the back of the car and she kinda freaks out thinking that he might have a concussion from the fall earlier and tells me to pull over and get him out and wake him up. So I do and now he is really mad at me. I'm trying to examine him, hold the phone all in the back seat of my car with Gavin's car seat in the way while he is screaming at the top of his lungs and cars are flying past us because we are on the side of the highway! Very intense! Well because all she can hear is him screaming she eventually says that I need to call 911 and have an ambulance come and get him because his femur might be broken! I KNOW that his femur isn't broken, however I was not expecting her to suggest calling 911 so now I am really freaking out! But after talking with Joshua, my PA friend again and my mother we all decide that he will be fine to wait until tomorrow but we are going to check on him a lot through out the night. So we put the pack n play in our room and set our alarm for almost every hour in the beginning. So I hardly slept just getting up to make sure that he was still breathing. Then this morning he seems to be a little better but still won't walk anywhere. So we call the doctor and they say come on in so we go. When we get there while we are waiting for the doctor to get to our room we notice a bruise on Gavin's back. So the doctor comes in, we tell him what happened and mention the bruise. He leaves and goes and calls the doctor in the er at the hospital and they decide that we have to do x-rays and maybe blood work. So we head to the hospital and do the whole waiting forever thing with the er. Get the x-rays and nothing is broken. Good. Except that now he needs blood work to rule out leukemia. The doctor says they are worried about that because of the bruise and because leukemia sometimes presents itself first in leg pain and they can’t find anything else wrong with any part of his leg. So they have to come in and take two vials of blood from his arm and then we wait for an hour for the tests results to come back. They come back negative which we are praising Jesus. But now they don’t know what is wrong. Maybe just pulled or strained something but nothing they can do so just go home and watch it. WHAT! Fine. So we leave and since getting up from his nap he is doing better. He still crawls some but he can stand up all by himself and walk some. So…now I’m going to bed!