Lennon Update

Lennon is still sick.  Yesterday the on call doc from our pediatrician said to take him to the ER and we spent 3 hours there before finally just leaving because it was 6 30 he was hungry, tired and grumpy from sitting in the ER for three hours.  They told me I most likely would not get back to see the doc in the next hour.  I may take him back in the morning, but first want to put in a call to our doc to see what they think.  We are supposed to get 10-15 inches of snow tonight and school is cancelled tomorrow for Mia so she will have to come with us whatever we do which sucks for her, but I'm sure Lennon will be happy to have her with us and I know I will.  The on call doc said they may want to check his head to make sure the vomiting isn't neurological and do blood work and a stool sample.  I spoke with a pediatrician at church this morning sort of hoping she would say "oh yeah, that's been going around my practice and it's totally normal, no worries."  She didn't.  She said she thinks we should make an appointment with a neurologist to rule out pressure or bleeding in his head.  She wasn't trying to scare me, she just thought we should make sure it wasn't in his head.  I'm so tired of him being sick.  I realized today that outside of a few days in between he has been sick with either a respiratory thing or this digestive crap since early january.  He has been in pretty good spirits though.  He's been really enjoying standing in a chair next to me while I cook and helping to "wash" the vegetables in the sink.  He's become fond of playing with Mia's Littlest Pet Shop animals and he loves playing in the kitchen that we have now moved into his room.  He loves Mia.  He was playing in her room today and put on a pink, frilly tutu from her dress up box.  He looked pretty funny.  He hasn't thrown up again since Friday night, but he did sort of gag at one point during dinner tonight which may have just been commentary on my cooking.  :)  He also recently noticed that Biance had Elmo on her diapers and kept asking about Elmo each time we would change his diaper.  I kept telling him how much cooler Mickey Mouse was than Elmo and in the ER they were playing that Mickey Mouse version of The Three Musketeers and he thought it was pretty awesome.  At home this morning he wanted to watch "Mick", but we didn't have anything other than Fantasia and he lost patience with that before the conductor stopped chattering.  We're going to have to get him some Mickey Mouse movie or something, especially if he stays sick much longer.  He's been doing a lot of laying around in my lap watching Horton Hears A Whoo and Baby Einstein Neighborhood Animals and stuff like that when he's feeling the worst.  Hopefully everything will just stop as suddenly as it came on and he will be fine and we will always talk about "that weird thing he had for so long back when he was so little."  Who knows.  More updates to come.