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did you have to change any poopy diapers on the plane?

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I did but I can't really remember. Ah yes, I did! I had changed her and right after that she pooped. Very funny. She suffers from the same thing as my mum: stomach/bowel being very upset after taking a plane.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 4 February 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I am surprised that Nakegemuro looks a lot like Swindon.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

We had a scary weekend. When I arrived home on Friday night, there were fire trucks and ambulances out front. I ran inside to find about ten paramedics standing over my wife and Ben. Ben, it turns out, had stopped breathing (although he was breathing by the time I showed up), and my wife called 911. They thought he might have had a seizure, or some kind of apnea, so we went to the ER. After hours of tests, including a Lumbar Puncture (which took three tries, since Ben is so feisty! They even tried to give him Ketamine but he shat it out.), we got to go to sleep at the hospital. All the tests came back negative, and the consensus among the neurologists and pediatricians was that he had some kind of reflux-related apnea. So, he's back at home, taking Zantac. He didn't have any other similar events during the weekend at the hospital, but we're being extra-careful - making sure to burp him, keeping him upright after feedings, and we've sloped their bassinet a bit to keep their heads up a bit higher.

― schwantz (schwantz), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh you poor things! Reflux-related apnea? Lucky your wife is so vigilant! Ohmy godohmygodohmygod!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

BEN!!! YOU ARE NEVER TO SCARE YOUR MAMA AND PAPA LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

yikes david, that's horrible!

Sorry your travelling was so rough, nath. Are those your parents in the photo?

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm glad Ben's okay.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Me too.

Kids getting ill is too scary.

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

There is something horrible about seeing your baby like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/380761073_58708969f4.jpg

Of course, Owen didn't seem to mind:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/380761069_c6f6b43ffd.jpg

― schwantz (schwantz), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

He's absolutely plumpified with life-force in that exam room! The healthiest-looking ER patient ever!

My older son had a strangulated small-bowel when he was 19. It was a couple of days of test and torture before they doctor figured out what was causing his terrible pain. I was climbing into the hospital bed and holding him while he cried, morphine notwithstanding. Finally a CAT scan revealed the problem and he had middle-of-the-night emergency surgery. The small bowel had turned blue, and would have perforated by morning. He now has a scar from above his navel down to his pubic bone.
WORST TIME OF MY LIFE.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

My oldest boy had to have middle-of-the-night emergency surgery at 11 weeks old. He had a groinal hernia and part of his bowel was falling into his testes. Handing him over to the docs to be taken into theatre was the most scary thing I've ever done, despite all the "really, he'll be fine" reassurances. He was fine, of course, and was like a new baby when we got him home - no more projectile vomiting and all night screaming fits.

― onimo (onimo), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh my mum had that, Beth - her small intestine adhered to scar tissue after an appendectomy and went bad. Thankfully she had it treated in time - peritonitis would have set in had it been a few hours later.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

That is a terrifying story about Ben; there's nothing worse than sick kids. Lumbar puncture? Wow - not fun.

If I had read the last few posts before I had kids, I might not have had kids.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

My mum took Spencer to Australia for Christmas with her when he was 18 months, and called me hysterically one night because they'd had to take him to the ER and he'd been admitted to the hospital because he wouldn't eat or drink, kept vomiting and was totally dehydrated. I was climbing the walls! I was almost on my way to the airport when my sister called (she was a nurse at the hospital at the time) and said that he'd just picked up some infection, but he'd be okay, and she'd call me if I needed to come over. In retrospect, I should have gone anyway, but sure enough, after a few days in the hospital (mum slept in the bed with him) and a scary IV in his foot, he was right as rain.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

My younger had a lumbar puncture when we took him to the ER for headache, and he told the doctor he was afraid he'd had an aneurysm. He's a terrible hypochondriac, and as it turned out, he'd gotten stoned and eaten a blot of cheap Chinese food. MSG?
But the doctors have to cover themselves if you're flinging words like aneurysm around.

I couldn't watch. My husband did. He said it was a slow drip, like a maple tree being tapped.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

is that the same as a spinal tap?

I had one of those when I was six. I just remember being in this tiny, hot room with three nurses lying on top of me to keep me still. I was terrified. When they wheeled me back to my room the doctor told my mother I was "a very uncooperative child". :(

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Same. Who are all these happy-to-get-spinal-tap kids?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I had one when I ruptured a disc. They had to inject dye to do a myelogram. I was on lots of drugs, watched the image of my spine, found it fascinating.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, man, I'm glad Ben's okay. That's my number 1 worst nightmare: to find out one of my kids has stopped breathing.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

My brother, an asthmatic, used to give my parents the fear all the bloody time through ending up not breathing. He's still doing it now at the age of 32! It never stops being scary.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for all the concern everyone - it feels nice, even through the internet...

― schwantz (schwantz), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, the Internet is just another means of communication, and no less valid for that. Glad to hear Ben is well. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank goodness Ben is OK.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Poor Ben! Yikes! That is scary! So glad it worked out ok!

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, that's terrifying. Glad to hear everyone is ok.

― liz (lizg), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna go ahead and lock this one.
The new rolling ILX parenting thread, since the other one was getting unwieldy

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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