Well POOP...

The title of this post is meant literally and figuratively. My poor little girl has been dealing with constipation issues since about the time we got home from Florida. I've talked to clinic and urology. I've tried prune juice, apple juice, straight baby food prunes, enemas, miralax, and a medicine called lactulose. I knew of a medicine called Senna, but I also knew once we began Senna we couldn't really go back so we were kind of hesitant. Senna is a laxative. I tried to help Emma out myself and each time I did she screamed. I knew she was uncomfortable, so Friday I called Urology. Well in my unfortunate timing I called about a half hour before they closed. So Saturday I called the doctor on call with Urology he told me to give her 1ml of the Senna and if that didn't work to bring her to the ER. I gave her the medicine on Saturday around 4:45 pm. I told Peter that if she didn't have a BIG poop by Sunday morning we were taking her in. I've never prayed for a blow out before but boy did I that night. Unfortunately I woke up to see, Emma had an empty diaper. I woke Peter up and to the ER we went. We got checked in and were given a room in the ER very quickly. My poor girl inherited my veins and they had to poke her 6 times before finally getting an IV started in her leg. They told us they were going to keep us overnight because they wanted to give her a rather large enema and they wanted to keep an eye on her levels. Around 4:00 pm we were finally getting settled into our room. By 5:30 they had given Emma the enema which to our surprise didn't work. I thought for sure this would solve our issues, the night nurse told us that they had ordered an X-ray but it wouldn't be until Monday morning. So we settled in for the night. The next morning they took her for an X-ray and her urologist and a few of his sweet nurses came with him. We reviewed the X-ray and were given an action plan. I'll stop with the details at this point. Emma likes her privacy. Anyways what they had done worked and we were discharged with a good game plan by 2:00 Tuesday afternoon.

I'm always so very grateful for the care that Cincinnati Children's provides but I'm also always so happy to be home!!!

Thank you to all for your continued prayers. They are always so greatly appreciated. We have always said we have prayer warriors and we love you all. Please continue to lift our family in your prayers and that God would continue to bless our sweet Emma with good health!