Home away from home

At the ER again.  Sierra is still having severe abdominal pain.  She is throwing up and having a bit of diareaah (sorry, I know that's tmi for some of you but we need to keep track of this stuff) she was crying and miserable once again late at night.  We called the nurse line and her on call doc and both advised us to head to the ER.  

To the ER we went.  Glad to hear Dr. Skinner is on tonight (he is the head of the ER department) they got her in quickly and got an iv started in her left hand.  Nurse (Kendra who was awesome all around!!!!) got her in one try.  Almost a miracle.  They did blood work and advised us her lipase levels were up over 800 the other night which is why she was diagnosed with pancreatitis.  Tonight her lipase was at 33 crazy low.  Doc said it is almost unheard of for the levels to change that quickly.  Everything that is "this almost never happens" or "I have never seen this before" is Sierra.  Honestly this girl is a medical marvel.   Sadly it is way less fun than it sounds. If her lipase had been high it would have been an automatic admit for pancreatitis. We were kind of hoping for that. Her pain is well controlled in the hospital. But it wasn't so the doc suggested a ct scan with contrast.  It was 2am at that point and we are looking at four more hours.  I have been up since 4:45 yesterday.  It will be a 24+ hour shift for this mom.  Sierra is still awake too.  Wish she could get some sleep. So we wait.......I went home and got her contacts case (note to self out an extra case and solution in the hospital bag) and her glasses, grabbed her some socks too -another add for the bag-- I updated Joe and headed back to the hospital.  Got back and she was drinking the contrast. Got her settled and went out and got about 90 minutes of shut eye in the car. She texted me when they were taking her in for the ct and j went back in. I went home around 5 to get Haylee up and off to seminary but Sierra texted me not long after I left to let me know she was getting discharged.  The ct scan didn't show anything.  Good news but not good news.  Wish we knew what was going on but glad they don't need to admit her.  Home again, home again jiggity jig.  We thought she had an appointment with her PCM at 9:45 but they just wanted labs.  Luckily we had the paperwork from the ER so they just made a copy and sent us home -frustratingly unhelpful.  We will call KU Tuesday to schedule her ASAP with a GI doc.  Praying she gets better through the weekend somehow.  We are done going to the hospital!!!!!!!