Another Scare

Well we unfortunately had another health scare this week. On Sunday in the middle of our Superbowl party mt mom mentioned that Jones had another headache. On occasion he gets migraines but lately it seems like he has been getting them a lot more. I went to find Jones and he had locked himself in the toy room with the lights off and was laying down, so I did what I normally do when he gets migraines and a little bit later he said is wasn't as bad. Well that night when he went to go to bed he said "please pray for me mom I am very sick." I asked what was wrong and said he thought he was going to throw up which I of course thought was just from the migraine. Well a few hours later he came into my bed crying because he was so sick and he was burning up. At that point I knew it wasn't a migraine and it was more than likely the flu. So I let him sleep in and not go to school. All day he just laid in bed with a sick stomach, a headache, and a fever. Latter that day I went in to get his homework and the teacher who was sick herself informed me that she had 13 of her 25 students out sick and that almost half the school had checked out because they were sick. After 2 days of dealing with Jones being sick Jaimin became ill with a sore throat and a fever as well. So needless to say we have spent our whole week laying in bed being lazy. Well Jones seemed fine on Wednesday so we were sending him back to school the next day. When I went to get Jones out of bed Thursday morning, he made a comment about how his legs hurt really bad. So thinking it was just growing pains I helped him from the top bunk and set him down only for him to collapse and yell in pain. The poor kid had so much pain in his lower legs he couldn't walk or even touch them. We ended up giving him some meds and getting him in a warm bath and finally after an hour he was able to walk but not very easily. Because he had improved from when he woke up I still figured it was growing pains and because he wanted to go I took him to school. I decided to call him after he had been there for 2 hours and he told me that he was still having a lot of problems so we went and checked him out. The poor kid was still in so much pain he walked like he was crippled we ended up having to carry him around. At this point we were really freaked out I couldn't imagine what it could be and couldn't stand the thought of something really serious being wrong to where he couldn't walk. We called the doctor and they told us to get in immediately. The nurse also told me that I was the second person to call with this problem. We all were pretty nervous as to what it could especially because of all the illness that had been going around the school and because we have had some scares with Jones before. Anyway the doctor informed me that sometimes this can happen after having the flu. He told us to just wait a few days and see if it gets better and didn't seem too worried. He also told us of things to look out for, one being really dark urine. Well Jones heard that and told the doctor that it had been really dark. So they decide to take a urine sample and go from there. The results showed that he had way too much protein and that it was highly concentrated. So the doctor ordered some blood work to be done as well and said he would call us later with the results. And once again I was freaking out ( even though I told Jones that he was fine and there was nothing to worry about) and impatiently waited for the doctor to call. Finally after a few hours he called and told me that the blood work showed that his ck (creatine kinase) levels that should be below 300 were well over 1200 which meant it was an inflammation that goes into your calf muscles after having the flu or a few other things. Whew what a relief!! Now we just pray and hope it goes away on it's own without any complications. (crossing my fingers) Today he woke up and was still in a lot of pain and had a really hard time walking. But luckily it seems like it is getting better he does have a lot of pain medicine in him so we will see how he does when it wears off. Anyway I took a video of him a few hours after he woke up to give you an idea of how he has been walking and even in the video it is a ton better that it was all day yesterday.