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We started out our Memorial Day with our son waking up with a stomach ache. Throughout the day he would complain his stomach hurt. It was a dull pain according to him. Sometime in the afternoon we got him to get up and take a shower to see if it would make him feel better. As he got in the hot shower he got right back out having to vomit. He said that made him feel a little better.

Later on he still was moaning with abdominal pain. I remembered back when I had appendicitis and how it felt. I finally said “let’s go.” Meaning to the hospital. I knew he would never volunteer to go, so off we went. We arrived at the ER at Baptist at 5:45PM. Fortunately there were few people if any there. We went right into and someone took his vitals. Not 10 minutes later we were called back to a room.

A nurse came in and took some blood and had him provide a urine sample. He laid down and felt a little better but was also sporting a good size head-ache. She also set him up on an IV. My mother called stating she was in the ER at UMC, which I told her that is where we were going. However we went to Baptist as the wait was shorter.

The Doc came in and suggested it might be kidney stones and wanted to run a cat-scan. When he came back he said the cat-scan was clear. It showed no kidney stones and the appendix looked fine. He suggested that we go home and see what, if anything, develops. He said an ultra-sound would be his next choice if he still had the abdominal pains. They gave him some pain medicine and we left. This was around 6:45 – 7:00PM.
We were thinking on the way home, why would they not do an ultra-sound to check? So this morning my wife has contacted the doctors office at UMC and is setting up to take him in for an ultra-sound. We’ll see how that turns out.