Wednesday afternoon, May 23rd, we had been over at the downtown water park celebrating the end of school and the beginning of summer. Cooper was running around like a crazy boy and having a ton of fun. Later that day we was kind of being lazy and attributed it to being tired from the sun and water. The Heine's invited us to swim and after a lot of persuading Cooper decided to come. Once there he swam and swam and swam.
The next day Cooper woke up warm, tired and not really feeling well. I knew a few kids in the neighborhood had the flu and just thought that was all it was. About 8 at night we was getting warmer and had absolutely no energy...here he is all sad and zonked on the floor.
That night he slept with me and had a fitful few hours, he woke up and sighed a few times. Once he headed back to his room and i fell back asleep. Then he woke up screaming and complaining. I thought maybe he was hungry or thirsty, but he couldn't keep a thing down and threw up the bite of cracker he had. I went down and got Brady up and after much thought and prayer we decided to take him. His heart rate was pretty high and I was just worried. A few phone calls later, a neighbor sleeping on our couch and we were off to the ER.
Once we checked in and moved to our room. Cooper got an IV with fluids and pain medicine. They came to take some blood for test and decide to do an ultrasound to check on his appendix. The ultrasound was fine, but the blood level was high so they decide to do a CATscan. It also didn't show everything, but by 9 am Cooper was headed into surgery for an emergency appendicitis. After the surgery we found out that it had in fact burst and that Cooper was doing fine. I am just glad that Cooper is built bigger and that they were able to do it with just 3 small incisions. We then got an ambulance ride over to the older hospital to the peds wing. I wished Coop felt better at the time, because he would have loved it, but he just wanted out of there and the stretcher.
Once in the peds wing, we settled into a quite large and private room. Grandma & Grandpa Haycock were able to visit. Cooper got plenty of rest and enjoyed watching Cars over and over. Once Ellie was able to visit we explored the floor and found the toy room. Cooper and Ellie rode wiggle cars around and played for hours there. Everyonce in awhile Cooper would wear himself out and get pretty grouchy but for the most part he was a pretty awesome patient.
Saturday afternoon my Mom and niece Chelcie came to visit. Cooper just kept saying, "I hate chelcie, I want Chelcie to go away, I don't like her!" over and over. It was kind of funny, but I felt bad he was so grumpy. Eventually he let her in, but boy was he mad at first.
He had a pretty quick recovery and we were able to check out Sunday morning and go home. He still walked like a little old man all hunched over and hobbling like his Uncle Shane did, but he managed. We are just so thankful for all the neighbors that helped us with Ellie and took care of our family. HE sure love the little guy and are glad that he was fully recovered and may have more energy now than he did before!!!
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