http://www.judisohn.com/2009/06/when_a_blog_post_takes_a_life_of_its_own/ It's a reason, not an excuse Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:08:55 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.judisohn.com/2009/06/when_a_blog_post_takes_a_life_of_its_own/comment-page-1/#comment-21005 Rose Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:07:31 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2009/06/when_a_blog_post_takes_a_life_of_its_own/#comment-21005 My 11 year old daughter has suffered with abdominal pain since she was 6 1/2 years old. Her pediatrician kept telling us it was just a virus. After numerous episodes of severe pain, she finally decided to put her in the hospital and have tests run, with the end result always being that nothing was wrong with her. The only thing that turned up on her MRI was inflamed lymph nodes in the abdomen and she told us to give her Tylenol whenever she felt the pain. She continued with this horrible pain for many years until I asked for a referral to a pediatric gastroenterologist. She was great, she ran numerous tests and scoped her immediately and determined she had H. Pylori. My daughter had an extreme case of severe gastritis and ulcers. She started antibiotic treatment for this and after a few months was doing much better. A few months went by and then it happened again excruciating pain for a little girl who would scream out to me "mommy please help me, I'm going to die", the dr. kept telling me to keep giving her the medicines for her gastritis. After numerous episodes of this happening again and again, I demanded an explanation, the dr. decided to re-evaluate her. She ran more tests and immediately scoped her again, she also had a HIDA Scan done on the gall bladder. Her endoscopy came back with a mild case of gastritis and no ulcers, but in all, it was a huge improvement from the first scope. On the other hand the HIDA Scan revealed that her gall bladder was distended and was only working at 7% out of 100%. She immediately referred us to a surgeon to have it removed , this happed almost two months ago. Everything was great until last week, she once again had her horrible pain and it landed her with a four day hospitalization. She had abnormal lab results, where her liver enzymes were extremely elevated. She was released from the hospital, but she was still not eating normal and with no answers, except that they would have to run labs for a few weeks to evaluate the numbers. Four days passed and she had another episode...ugh! I am so exhausted! She is in the hospital again, only this time the E.R. doctor was very concerned with her history with this pain. Having explained to him the history, he told me to have our gastro dr. look into SOD as a possible diagnosis. I am trying to do some research on the internet on the subject but have not come accross any cases with children. Does anyone know of how this affects children? How dangerous could this be for my child if she has had this for many years and we never knew. Please someone out there please respond if you know of any. Thanks! My 11 year old daughter has suffered with abdominal pain since she was 6 1/2 years old. Her pediatrician kept telling us it was just a virus. After numerous episodes of severe pain, she finally decided to put her in the hospital and have tests run, with the end result always being that nothing was wrong with her. The only thing that turned up on her MRI was inflamed lymph nodes in the abdomen and she told us to give her Tylenol whenever she felt the pain. She continued with this horrible pain for many years until I asked for a referral to a pediatric gastroenterologist. She was great, she ran numerous tests and scoped her immediately and determined she had H. Pylori. My daughter had an extreme case of severe gastritis and ulcers. She started antibiotic treatment for this and after a few months was doing much better. A few months went by and then it happened again excruciating pain for a little girl who would scream out to me “mommy please help me, I’m going to die”, the dr. kept telling me to keep giving her the medicines for her gastritis. After numerous episodes of this happening again and again, I demanded an explanation, the dr. decided to re-evaluate her. She ran more tests and immediately scoped her again, she also had a HIDA Scan done on the gall bladder. Her endoscopy came back with a mild case of gastritis and no ulcers, but in all, it was a huge improvement from the first scope. On the other hand the HIDA Scan revealed that her gall bladder was distended and was only working at 7% out of 100%. She immediately referred us to a surgeon to have it removed , this happed almost two months ago. Everything was great until last week, she once again had her horrible pain and it landed her with a four day hospitalization. She had abnormal lab results, where her liver enzymes were extremely elevated. She was released from the hospital, but she was still not eating normal and with no answers, except that they would have to run labs for a few weeks to evaluate the numbers. Four days passed and she had another episode…ugh! I am so exhausted! She is in the hospital again, only this time the E.R. doctor was very concerned with her history with this pain. Having explained to him the history, he told me to have our gastro dr. look into SOD as a possible diagnosis. I am trying to do some research on the internet on the subject but have not come accross any cases with children. Does anyone know of how this affects children? How dangerous could this be for my child if she has had this for many years and we never knew. Please someone out there please respond if you know of any. Thanks!

]]> http://www.judisohn.com/2009/06/when_a_blog_post_takes_a_life_of_its_own/comment-page-1/#comment-20532 Jack Brewster Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:00:58 +0000 http://www.momathome.com/2009/06/when_a_blog_post_takes_a_life_of_its_own/#comment-20532 This is pretty darn cool and, to me, is the "real" social web. This is pretty darn cool and, to me, is the “real” social web.

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