Well- we defiantly have been tested this week!! Being a parent is the best thing in the world but when your child decides to a) be a medical mystery b) stop using the potty after doing so unbelievable well for 3 weeks straight and c) having a major temper out of the blue- it sure does make it hard to ‘enjoy’ being a parent, it actually freaks me out even more because I’m having another in three months (are we CRAZY!?!?!)
So, to further explain…
a) Miley is a medical mystery right now, to keep it brief, Miley got the stomach flu 7 weeks ago, then had soft stool or diarrhea for 6 weeks straight, got tested for a few things which all came back negative so we tried no dairy which was kind of helping. Sunday night she started getting a runny nose and watery eyes (just a cold) but Monday wouldn’t eat any breakfast and had a one hour episode of throwing up, when I picked her up she looked half dead, to be blunt. We headed straight for Red Wing to do further testing to ensure nothing was wrong intestinally. Of course, every single test they did came back normal, except for the ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE test which normal is under 300 and hers was 885. However, he doesn’t know the correlation of the two things, diarrhea and this test, Miley is now his third patient with the same problem but not even the Specialists at the University can figure it out, and the other two kids ended up snapping back to normal within a few weeks. So, for now, we get through this minor cold and go and do blood work again next week to see if those levels have come back down. As for the throwing up episode, he thinks it was contributed to all the gas that was showing up in her tummy and for the fact that she normally goes twice a day and hadn’t gone since Saturday night, we got her to get it all out by simply giving her some Chocolate Milk, her FAVORITE thing in the whole world, for being so brave with all her tests, and because I knew that would get things working rather than the alternative method, which I don’t even want to speak of.
b) I know, I know, she is young to potty train, but it was her decision to do it, and I know we’ve been dealing with a lot of stomach issues and now having a cold but now we are going on 2 weeks of just wanting to go in her pants. I guess I was so excited that it was going so well and now it’s not that it upsets me. I’m hoping next week though she’ll be healthy again and we can get back on track, but it’s just frustrating to have maybe 1-2 accidents a day for three weeks to now maybe only going on the potty 1-2 times a day and the rest in her pants.
c) Seriously, this terrible 2 thing, SERIOUSLY! WOW! The girl knows how to throw a tantrum, that’s for sure! They mostly come only when she’s over tired and her schedule gets off, which is to be expected as she is like me and does like her schedule. But man, last night, seriously, we timed it, 54 FULL minutes of her screaming, crying, kicking, swinging her arms, choking, coughing, etc. until she finally just gave in and fell asleep! She wanted NOTHING to do with me AT ALL, she would freak out even more if I even came near her, she only wanted Daddy (which is just WONDERFUL because now he is gone on the 8th grade Eagle Bluff trip as a chaperone for the next three days, wonder how this is going to go). But once she finally did relax enough to just fall asleep she slept hard, she barely moved a muscle all night, she was still in the same position when I left this morning. Moments like that are defiantly a true test of being a parent and working together, as frustrated as Taylor and I got we both helped each other stay calm in order to deal with her and once she was out we gave each other a smile as a way of saying, we made it through this, we did it, together.
So, it’s been a rough start to the week at the Pagel household and we are defiantly looking forward to next week, short work week, Thanksgiving, and then getting ready for our most favorite Holiday of all, CHRISTMAS!!! Miley will really enjoy all of our ‘getting ready for Christmas Traditions’ this year. Now, we just have to make it to next week still in once piece!
Here she is at Fairview. My mom came with as I was a pregnant emotional wreck and I knew they would want to do x-rays and I obviously can’t even be in the room when they do them right now. And it’s hard for Taylor, being a teacher, to just drop everything and leave like I can. He got off as soon as he could though to be with his little girl. The second photo is her wanting to get the heck out of the x-ray room after they were done doing the photos, we just had to wait for 1 minute so they could ensure they got a good photo but she was ready to run out the door.
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5 comments:
OH EM GEE! I didn't sign up for the terrible twos, can Kaiden just bypass that? hahaha. Sorry to hear about Miley and her tummy issues. poor girl.
Of course, I have heard that boys are more so in their three's and it's a different kind of terrible... girls seem to have more of a temper- Drama!
Sophie had a similar bug or something this summer. 3 weeks of mucousy diarrhea which eventually transitioned into Croup which lasted 3 days or so. They did stool stamples strep culture, the works. It all came back normal in regards to her diarrhea. They asked to take her off milk and that didn't help. In the end they attributed it to a case of "toddlers diarrhea" which may be instigated by a change in their diet (something quite benign pretty much). Anyways, hang in there. These things seem like they last forever. And with the tantrums, Sophie has her days too. She'll go through a tantrum phase for a week or two and then she'll be great again. Goodluck!! :)
Mindi-
I hope all the tummy issues are getting better. Have they checked her for Chron's or colitis or maybe celic's disease? (just an idea?) being a parent is a stresful job. Some day Miley will thank you!! Don't worry about the potty training thing, every kid is so different. It sounds like she was doing a great job and once all this tummy stuff is under control she'll be right there again.You still have hope to have only one in a diaper. Hope all goes well this week.
We have thought about Crohns, especially because I have it. But she hasn't had any blood in her stool and we and the Dr. think she would be more sick if that was the case, but that is also why we are just watching things closely.
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