Poop. Part 3.

my faith in Wilma’s new GI doc is restored. After a horrific weekend, the bad news is that she has to have another xray and an enema before she gets a monometry. The xray is to see where everything is— top?  Bottom?  Are these 8 zillion poops coming AROUND a blockage?  The exam Friday didn’t indicate a blockage but before a monometry we have to make sure.  the monometry is to measure the pressure in the anus.  Hopefully that will give us some answers.  My guess is that there’s a nerve ending problem or a pressure problem, but not Hirschsprungs.

But the GREAT news is that she’s not (yet) getting a biopsy and she’s now OFF two of the three new meds— one of the meds caused SUCH horrificness this weekend.

She’ll probably still get sent home from school tomorrow (though I plan to try to send her, with a nice email to her teachers about what’s going on)—I mean how many times do kindergarten teachers want to change a 6 year old?  They usually do it once or twice a day— but four to five to ten times?  nah, they’ll call me.   But we’re on the road to normalcy and some sort of diagnosis. Hooooooray!

Meanwhile it’s such a pain to write down every time she poops and try to find the piece of paper.  I’m now using a nifty little program where I can enter in poops for both kids.  And meds.  And therapy appointments.  And doctor calls.  And med changes.  All the stuff that’s on a million pieces of paper all over my office.  This free program is online– check it out!  http://birdhousehq.com/

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