At about 230ish, we had our first big scare since Kohlton
started chemo. Tommy heated some food
up, and made Kohlton a hot dog, with some chips, and his juice cup, and I was
making an egg sandwich for myself.
Kohlton looked at me grabbed his head and said “Momma hurt”. I looked at him and there was blood all over
the floor. It looked as if it were just
pouring out of his incision, where one of the biopsies were done. Tommy grabbed something to put pressure on
his head while I grabbed a towel, honestly I can’t even remember how it all
went. All I remember is running with
Kohlton to the car and Tommy chasing me with the keys. I headed to Sacred Heart while Tommy stayed
here with Kason and called a friend to ride with me so that I could put
pressure on Kohlton’s head. I ended up
driving straight to Sacred. Let me just
tell you, if you see someone with their emergency lights on honking at you….MOVE
THE CRAP OUT OF THE WAY!! Seriously, get
off you flipping phone and move! I could
not even tell you how many people didn’t even notice or care to move. As soon as I got to Sacred, they took Kohlton
and I in a room by ourselves so that Kohlton would not be around sick
people. I think it was strictly for
chemo patients or at least for people with low immune systems. Kohlton’s Uncle Jur-rell showed up to help
till Tommy could get there. Tommy had to
get Kason watched and get someone to cover his on-call shift at work. Once we got to our room in the pediatric
emergency room, the resident pediatrician came to talk to us. She basically had no clue what she was talking
about. Jarrell and I had to keep
correcting her. (The place Kohlton hit
was were the biopsy on his head was, they were able to remove the tumor there
and Dr. Lewis, the pediatric surgeon said the tumor had eaten some of the
skull. She said the hole was about the
size of a quarter.) The resident in the
ER was telling us that there is no hole and after we argued with her, she then
told us she saw the scans and there is no hole.
So, in a polite way I told her the oncologist/surgeon must be wrong
then. She also said they were going to
treat him like a regular kid meaning just stitch it up and send him on his way, is
how she put it. She also looked at the
cut, pressed on it and guess what, it started pouring out blood again. Uncle Jur-rell stepped in at this point and
made her do her job. I was about to go
off on her. I was NOT going to let her
touch my child again! She acted as if it
were nothing. I think she started to
panic. She called the oncologist and surgeon,
then came back to tell us about the x-rays ordered for him. Finally, something was being done. The x-rays were traumatic enough, I won’t
even go in detail about those. Dr. Wack,
the real doctor, came in later to let us know that Kohlton’s scans were okay
and that he was going to clean the wound and stitch it up. Once cleaning it, we figured what happened
was the glue from the biopsy must have gotten stuck on part of the kitchen
table and the table ripped it off.
Awful! Needless to say our table will be gone soon. They didn’t
have to stitch it or anything but we have to keep an eye on it. It started to clot and form a scab before we
left. It’s a tiny part of the incision that
basically got yanked. Tommy showed up a
little before we left, Kohlton was so excited to see him! With all that blood and a trip to the
hospital, I am glad to be home. Kohlton
is acting as if nothing happened and is eating everything in sight still. Both Tommy and my nerves are shot! I’m sure I’ll be up all night checking on
Kohlton. Thanks for all the prayers and
please keep them coming.
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