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My little Sean drives me crazy. He makes me want to pull my hair out. Scream. Bang my head against the wall. Whatever. But I love him with all of my heart. And right now I'm so worried about him. And I'm in California, where I can't be with him.

This post is going to be full of TMI, so don't read it if you have a weak stomach. Just sayin'. Consider yourself forewarned.

Sean was born 3 weeks early. He was in NICU for a week and had to be on a ventilator because he couldn't breathe on his own. That doesn't have anything to do with anything I'm about to talk about except that I have always wondered if there weren't other things that weren't fully developed. For the first 4+ months of his life, I never changed any diapers on that child that weren't poopy. And I was changing him 8-10 times a day at least. During this time, he also would always throw up everything that he ate. And I mean projectile, out the nose, everything. I got used to carrying around spare blankets/outfits in my diaper bag for when he would lose it. Clean it up with a blanket, change his clothes and move on. Every. single. time. I was worried. When I took him into the doctor, he told me that he wasn't worried at all, that he would grow out of it, and he was still gaining weight, so he wasn't worried.

Well when he was about 18 months old, he was still going way more times a day than he should and he started having a puking problem again. About every other night at dinner, he would eat, and then just get this nauseated look on his face and lose it. After a month of this, I brought it up to the doctor, and he said “Oh, yeah. It looks like he has what’s going around.” I said, “does what’s going around last a month??” He said, a month? Uh, no. So he put him on an anti-nausea medicine that should also help things digest better. He was on this for a year. It seemed to help and he only had occasional episodes. Well after a year, he went off of it, and seemed to be doing just fine. That was a year ago.

So Sean had an appointment a month or so ago where they weighed him and he was 31 lbs. Which is not very much for a 3 ½ year old. He still is pooping 5+ times a day. Who does that?! I’ve been having the time of my life trying to potty train this child that will poop 5 times on the toilet, and still poop his pants in the same day. So a little over a week ago, he got on the scale, and was so excited to show me his weight. He was 29 lbs. This kid eats like crazy, is growing like a weed, and is losing weight?!? That worried me. Well a week ago, he threw up. So what, right? That’s going around right now. Then the next day he seemed fine. Then he threw up again. And the next day he was fine. And the next day he wasn’t. Very reminiscent of his problem before. And when I say ‘threw up’ I mean with all his heart and soul out both ends. He seemed on the mend, so I decided to go through with my trip to California. Well the night after I left, he got sick again. And he’s not getting any better. After the 4th or so episode of this, I finally agreed with Jeremy that he needed to take him into the doctor (I didn’t want to be one of those parents).

Well the doctor doesn’t think he has the flu or any other bug that is going around. Given his history, he said “I really don’t know what it is… and that’s what bothers me.” So he has referred us to a pediatric gastroenterologist in Spokane, who will run a bunch of tests and hopefully pinpoint what is wrong with my little boy and if he can fix it.

So that is what is going on. All you never wanted to know and more. But I am very worried about my son. Please don’t treat Sean like he is diseased. He is not contagious, he is just very sick.

Please pray for my son.