So all day Thursday, Cole was feeling pretty lousy. He had a temperature, wasn’t eating a lot, puking, and of course not having the greatest poops. The GI nurse practitioner called us Friday morning to just let us know she had talked to the nutritionist about a question we had. Without telling her how Cole’s been feeling, she said as long as Cole doesn’t have a temperature, isn’t puking, and is eating okay, then he should be fine. Ruh-ro! We told her the bad news. They wanted to give Cole a stomach x-ray today, just to rule out some blockage. We also made an appointment with the peed to get tested for strep A. The peed nurse practitioner said it looks like Cole has it, but we won’t know for sure until Tuesday (they have to grow it in a petrie dish, ewww).

I don’t know why Tobie took Cole to the hospital for the x-ray instead of me, but that’s what happened. Let’s just say it was a very long 3 hours, as parking sucks big time so Tobie had to walk from one end to the hospital to the other, it was raining all day long, somebody didn’t use the stroller, we actually took Cole to the wrong hospital (don’t ask), Tobie can’t be with Cole while getting an x-ray because of her pregnancy, and the number one reason why it sucks taking Cole to the hospital: apparently you have to be standing outside in the rain with your one year old son if you want the shuttle to stop and take you back to your car.

If Cole does has strep A, it probably explains a lot of with his pooping and eating. Let’s just say he’s a little red south of the border. Our speech therapist recently told us a baby is smart enough to associate eating and pooping, so if they have pain when they poop guess what they wont do? Eat! I guess I’ll have to trust her experience as it’s never been a problem for me! So, to recap, we had started Cole on milk, he got his 12 month old shots, he probably has strep A, all within the same week. Poor guy, no wonder it’s difficult to figure out what’s going on with the kid!