It hurts when I push here....so don't push there!

So Gray came home on Friday afternoon and said, 

"Mom, it hurts when I push here."

I replied, "So don't push there."

He said it was kind of like a stomach ache, kind of like gas...so his friend gave him ex-lax.

Nice.

We gave him gas x and aleve. Then we googled it.

Kidney stones

Appendicitis

a Tumor

Bladder infection

He ate dinner, then had some friends come over.  At about 9:30, he had had it.  We knew it was serious if he was wanting to go to the ER when he had friends over. So Hans took him to Orem Community on the advice of a Dr. friend, and I told all his friends that Gray had gone to the ER. Awkward. After Chloe got home, I headed over to the hospital.

Orem Community turned out great. He was the only patient and got right in for a cat scan. And definitely appendicitis! They were a little bit concerned because it looked like there was fluid surrounding the appendix and they weren't sure if this was infection or what.  But they don't do emergency surgery's like that so they transferred him to UVRMC.  This is what took forever.  There weren't any beds on the pediatric floor....finally they were convinced by his size that he could be on the normal surgical floor.

So he kept his sweet robe on and He and Hans spent the night at Utah Valley. I went home to be with the other kids.

 We joked he looked like a homeless man.

The IV was making his hand really red and swollen.

At 5:30 they woke him up and told him to shower before his surgery.

I rushed down to the hospital just in time to meet the surgeon and to ask some questions.  This is when I started to get nervous.  The Dr. said there could be a chance that the appendix had already burst and that was the fluid on the cat scan, but he wasn't worried because Gray didn't have any symptoms indicating that.  But, if it did rupture, he would have to be in the hospital for 2 weeks on some serious IV antibiotics. And if it didn't rupture, he could maybe go home the same day.

They wheeled him down to surgery and gave him this sweet hat.

When he was going under...they said he was laughing...he liked it.

Great News:
It didn't rupture!
There was puss on the outside of the appendix, so the doctor had him stay another day in the hospital with a few rounds of IV antibiotics.

When he woke up, he had 3 little incisions that were glued together, the 3rd is a little lower than Gray wanted to show.  

He threw up after the anesthesia, then it was all up hill from there.

We are so grateful that an unpleasant situation was as smooth and easy as this.