Well, since it has been a while since I have checked in, I will fill you in. Since June, I have been extremely sick. Throwing up and a lot of nausea, almost daily. Well, after going to the ER on Sept. 4, and being given both phenergren and zofram (both anti-nausea meds) and neither working, the ER doctor tried a medicine called Reglan. This is for a condition called gastroparesis. Guess what...the medicine worked! So, I have been seeing a gastroenterologist for almost 2 weeks now and he has done an outpatient procedure on me, EGD. This is where they send a camera down my throat to check out my upper GI. They found nothing. Then the doctor sent me to do a nuclear medicine study called a gastric study. This is where I had to eat eggs that had radio-active material on it so they could watch the food travel thru-out my digestive system. I have not found out the results yet, since my appt was this week and my son got sick and had to be checked out of school on Monday of this week.
My son had to be checked out of school on Monday due to a fever. Got diagnosed with the flu, then on today developed a blister type rash all over his body. I immediately thought it was chicken pox. One of the students in my son's class was sent home on Monday early because he had full blown chicken pox. So the doctor's office told me to come to the door, but not come in until he was checked out. No chicken pox. Something else. He was tested on Tuesday for both the flu and strep throat. Both came back negative, but the dr treated him for the flu anyway because he had all the symptoms of it. But both tests are only about 80% accurate. So the dr thougth this was a false negative result. Well, then today, we go in and the dr thinks that it is the rash associated with strep throat. Did the strep test and came back positive. So from Tuesday to Friday the results changed. So the doctor said that he had a scarletina rash along with strep throat. Poor baby looks pitiful. The places start out looking like a mosquito bite, then grows like 5 mosquitos bit him. And they itch. He is on benadryl and an antibiotic also. I hate that this has hit him right after another. But atleast it is not chicken pox. He did have the vaccinations for chicken pox, but still, I worry.
That is about it for right now. I am going to bed.
