In November, Corbin had blood in his poop. Of course, being a typical worrying mother, I had him in the pediatrician's office that afternoon. They ordered an x-ray and did some tests on his poop. The tests all came back clear, the x-ray showed a "large amount of stool in the intestines" Since Corbin has always gone 2-4 days b/t bowel movements and b/c he had just had one the morning of the xray, they started him on a laxative. It helped for a week and then he was back to every 3 days. So the pediatrician decided Corbin is quite literally anal retentive. It hurt a couple times to go poop, so now he doesn't go until he absolutely can't wait any longer.
He had 2 more incidents of blood in his stool, so I asked for a gastroenterologist referral. Today was our appointment with him. He thinks that Corbin is anal retentive also. He thinks that Corbin is only pooping as little at a time as he can, so everything's not getting cleaned out of him. He also thinks he has some internal hemmoroids.
He decided to start Corbin on a new stool softner - miralax. We're gonna try that for several weeks and then in 8-12 weeks, we follow up with the GI. If he has blood in his stool again or things don't get better, we'll do additional testing.
I'll keep you guys updated as we deal with Corbin's tummy.
On another note - Corbin's GI is in St. Petersburg, about 2 hours from us. Today, on the way home, our car started making a funky noise. I checked the oil and it was way low. Corbin and I found a Wal*mart and bought some oil. I filled in back up and we were on our way. Well the noise got worse and then the car started letting off some awful scent. So our car is broken in some way. Tomorrow we're taking it to the shop, hopefully it's nothing serious.
One last thing - tomorrow I have an interview at the hospital. This job would really help us out, so keep your finger's crossed and say a prayer that I get it :)
Thanks for reading!
2 comments:
Good luck at your interview. I'm praying for you and Corbin!
Does not bother me since I stole it!!! If you go to the kiss the frog blog she comes up with the themes for each friday so you would not have to think them up!!! Enjoy!
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