Alexa at Children's hospital for the night

Hi all,
Alexa was awakened by stomach pains at 7:45am this morning. She had soccer practice from 9-10:30 –so I told her that she should go, and see if she can go to the bathroom, or get sick and then she would feel better, thinking it was something she ate last night. She didn’t eat anything for breakfast. Then she got sick in the car on the way to practice (we were prepared) and then she felt better – so she practiced for about 30 minutes. I had a meeting at work, so I left just before she stopped playing since she started not to feel well again – she had ¾ doughnut after practice then got a ride home. By the time I got home from my meeting– 11:30 –she was on the couch still having a sore stomach and having extreme pain about every 5-10 minutes, then she’d be ok, then pain again. I took her to the Dr. at 2:30 –they felt her stomach and the right side was tender and they told me to take her to Children’s to check for appendicitis. On the way out of the Doctor’s office, she got sick again. She felt better and slept on the way to Children’s. We got to Children’s at 4:00pm and they took a urine and blood sample. Then they did an ultrasound to check her appendix and kidneys (for kidney stones). The ultrasound showed a normal appendix except the tip was slightly swollen and there was some slight irregularities around it. Her white count was up a bit showing she is fighting something, be it a virus or appendicitis or gall bladder. Plus, there was blood in her urine which could be kidney or puberty related.
The surgeons decided to watch her overnight – Doug is there with her, I came home to take my shot and will return in the morning. They will check the tenderness tomorrow morning, maybe take another ultrasound of it all, and the gall bladder too. If she is feeling better, and no tenderness, they will give her breakfast to see how she does. If there is still tenderness and the ultrasound shows more, then she will have surgery to remove her appendix or gall bladder tomorrow.

So PRAY for it to be a 24 hour bug…..

Kourtney made it to Toronto with only a slight airplane delay here in Seattle. Doug postponed his Calgary trip tonight until tomorrow, pending Alexa’s status. Alexa and I will still plan on going to San Diego on Friday and if she plays in her soccer tournament will be determined by if she has surgery tomorrow or not.

We will update the blog tomorrow when we know more.....our cell devices do not work in the hospital.

Thanks all for your support again!
~Keri