What a day!

Last night Aiden was throwing up, had diarrhea, and developed an abscess on his bottom. I was not sure if it was all related, or just happened to be a "bad day" for the little man. Since Emily never experienced any diaper rashes, I was not sure if what Aiden had on his bottom was just a bad rash or something more serious. This morning I decided to call the doctor and see if they thought he should be seen or not. Sure enough, they wanted to see him and we made an appointment for 3:15 with the nurse since Dr. Nix was off. Thinking this visit was going to be no big deal, I loaded up the car with both kids and headed down in hopes of getting a good cream to put on Aiden's bottom. Well, it took the nurse all of 5 seconds to grab another doctor in the practice and within minutes, we were told to head straight to Texas Children's Hospital (downtown) for a surgery to drain the infection. It was their opinion that Aiden had a severe staph infection and because of the location, it was too risky for anyone other than a pediatric surgeon to complete this procedure. My mom came home from work to watch Emily and Jon came home from work to drive downtown with me. Since the doctor's office had called ahead, we did not have to wait long before we were brought into a room at the ER. 2 different ER doctors came through and decided that this did, indeed, need to be done in the Operating Room with a surgeon. Aiden needed to have an IV put in for fluids and medications (it took them 20 minutes to get it in!). Thankfully Jon was there because I had to step out of the room...it was too much for me to handle! Somewhere around 8:00 p.m. Aiden was taken back for anesthesia and his surgery. It was so hard to hand him over to the doctors, but I knew he was in good hands and would be ok. The surgery did not last long...maybe a total of 30 minutes and he was out and we could see him. He had a little trouble coming out of the anesthesia, but after some cold wash cloths, patting, and prodding, he woke up. Aiden was such a trooper! The surgeon was very informative and told us that he does not think it is staph (but we will know for sure on Friday) but instead an infection in his bottom. He gave me a name of the type of infection he believed it was, but I can't remember what it is right now. The surgeon was glad we got him here when we did because it was something that was on the verge of spreading. Aiden has a surgical tie that goes through his right buttock to help keep the abscess open so it can continue to drain. We will have to come back in 10 days for it to be removed. Now we find ourselves admitted to the hospital and hoping to be discharged in the morning. Aiden is still sleeping off the pain meds and has not eaten much but I am sure that he will decide to change that right about the time I fall asleep! :) What a day! Thank you to everyone who was praying for us. You will never know what your support means to us. Here are a few pictures of my brave little Aiden.

Waiting for the ER doctors to come give Aiden his IV.

Aiden with his IV...what a trooper!

He was so hungry that he kept trying to suck on the IV! (He was not allowed to eat since he was having the surgery.)

Aiden after his surgery in the recovery room enjoying some Pedialyte.

Resting in his hospital room in his gown from what....1950???