Emergency room visit

Just a little note--every time we called the doctor with questions or concerns their advice was basically "go to the emergency room." It's now a running joke, but at the time it was more than a little frustrating!

We ask Dad to talk to Dr. O’Bryant again about the constant nausea. He tells Carey the weight loss should be taken seriously since it’s about 15% of her total body weight. He talks the following possibilities:

1. Infection which is hidden by antibiotics;
2. Ascending colonitis from the stent;
3. Dehydration and the stones that are present could be causing the nausea;
4. Pyloric spasm preventing the stomach from emptying;
5. Gastric outlet obstruction;
6. Gastric graffen swallow test could be done;

I take Christi to the Emergency room after a blessing from Jim and Bart. She only weighs 90 lbs. She has lost 10 since her week home from the hospital and I think she must be dehydrated because she can’t drink or eat anything. She is still in pain. Dr. Rasmussen is on call and visits us three times that night. Orders the blood work and orders a CT contrast of the abdomen and pelvis. We are there from 11:00 until 5:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. We are sent home and prescribed Raglan to help her stomach move and told the CT scan does not show any blockage. Christi is asleep due to the pain meds. She could hardly drink any of the contrast material and after the test she uses the bathroom and empties her bowels in a lot of pain. Dr. Rasmussen takes me to the physician’s room to see the scan on the computer. He has no real answers and doesn’t think we should worry too much about the weight loss as the alternative is very risky (the feeding tube). He wants us to hang on until Wednesday (the day of her next procedure) and come to the office if we think Christi is dehydrated. We liked Dr. Geunther, the emergency room doctor. He listened to us and wanted to do the stomach emptying test and prescribed the Raglan.
I left in the afternoon (Saturday by this time) to fly home for a few days after Erin and Annie arrive to help with Christi and the kids.

By the time we left the emergency room with no real answers, Christi wanted donuts, so we stopped at the grocery store (did you know there are no real donut stores in Utah??). Not the best meal, but at this point I would have bought or made anything she was willing to swallow! Annie and Erin were good to come and help out so Jim could continue studying even though they had things they needed to be doing too. You don't have to twist any of our arms too much since we love being with the girls and they are so good, but even so, I have been SO grateful for Erin and for Annie and everyone who has helped Christi and Jim and me.