Baby Scare

I am sorry in advance to family that didn't get a call first before reading this. But last night our little Clint gave us a big scare. We have all been sick with colds the last few weeks, and Clint was showing lots of the regular signs. Slight ear infection, pink eye, runny nose, cough, etc. The Dr put him on antibiotics to help the infections in the ear, eye, and to relieve the cough. He had had some blood in his poopy diaper that came with some constipation. So we associated it with the constipation itself. Then yesterday when I changed a diaper in the morning and there was blood and no constipation. So I took him to the Dr and he thought it was likely from the medication, so we stopped it, and began to watch and see if the blood stopped.
Last night around 6 I changed a diaper that was full of blood. Scary full. Katie was picked up immediately by my babysitter and I rushed Clint to the ER. How awful it was to watch them try to get an IV in him, and take blood. They couldn't get the IV in as it was too hard to find a vein in his chubby little arm. But they took x-rays to see if the culprit was a twisted intestine (it wasn't). Clint spent most of the night charming the nurses, who fell in love with him! Poor Rick in the mean time had been hunting and didn't get phone reception until Kemmerer, and it wasn't until around 8 that he got the message from me to get to the ER. Thank goodness he didn't get a ticket. He made it from Kemmerer to the hospital in Rock Springs in 59 minutes. It is normally an hour and a half drive!
They released us from the hospital around midnight, after finding all the test results to be in good shape, his intestines all normal, and he kept down 2 oz of pedialyte. I must say that the look he gave me after not eating for about 6 hours and then being given only 2 oz to drink, was like "what the Hell??? Where's the rest?!?!?!?!" And then he promptly fell asleep.
Today he is resting, we are attempting to collect a clean poop sample (I won't tell you how that's done, except to say it involves a Ziploc bag.), and we are holding our children a little closer. Clint's infection is supposed to clear itself up. It doesn't respond well to medication. We don't know how he got it, but the Dr said that the infection is a common one here in Sweetwater Co, and Clint's was relatively minor.
I will try to call people today and over the weekend to update you on his progress and fill you in with anything I left out.