Warning... Read At Your Own Risk

Some of this is kind of gross, so don't say I didn't warn you. About a week ago Korver started to get a rash on his bum. I really didn't think anything of it and rushed to the store for some Desitin. After slathering his cute butt with the ointment I thought it would be taken care of within a few days. He also had a little bit of diarrhea which I also thought was no big deal and would be gone in a day or two. Well, the rash kept getting worse and worse. My little sister is a pharmacy tech and mixed me up a concoction of stuff to smear on his bum. It started looking better, so I thought okay, we're good. Friday afternoon I was changing Korver and noticed some blood in his diaper. I thought, oh great his bum rash has started to bleed, that can't be good. I put gobs of the ointment on the rash and checked him again in an hour. He was good to go, so I was relieved. We left for a date and came home to a sleeping baby. He did fine through the night and Jeff said that he didn't notice any blood (any of you who know me, knows that Jeff has always been the one to get up with our babies during the night, I now he's a catch.) The next morning when I was getting him ready for the day I noticed that the blood was mixed in with his stool. You can imagine my thoughts. This really can't be good. I was wiping him down with the ointment again and blood started dripping; and it definitely was NOT dripping from the rash. I immediately called the on-call doctor at the clinic and was told to bring him in. The doctor examined him quickly and told us to go to Primary Children's. I started bawling. I didn't want my poor baby to be sick. So after a quick trip home to grab what we needed for an overnight stay, and after taking my girls down to my wonderful parents, we headed up to Salt Lake. After we were admitted, the doctors at PCH took some blood tests and a stool sample. What they found was that Korver is probably allergic to his formula. And that's the reason he's had diarrhea and from that comes the bum rash. They said that the formula has probably upset his bowels which has caused sores which is where the bleeding has come from. They switched his formula and so far the only thing that has changed is he's not spitting up nearly as much as he did before. Korver still has the bum rash and still has bloody stool. Now he's a little dehydrated to boot. They have him hooked up to all these monitors and it's really sad. I feel stupid for not making a bigger deal out of getting the rash taken care of. And also for not being more aware of how serious the diarrhea thing was. Who knows, all this could have been taken care of if I would have just taken him in sooner. But I'm just not one of those moms that takes their kids to the doctor over every little thing. I guess I better be one of those moms, right. Anyway, here we sit in a quiet hospital room. Korver is sleeping and has only waken up to eat and have his bum changed. He's been such a good kid the whole time we've been here. Not much crying at all on his end (a few tears have been shed on my end.) Unless you looked at his bum, you would never know there was anything wrong with him. Jeff and I have taken 4 hour shifts through the night since there's only one bed. He's also sleeping right now. I will keep you posted and I will also take some pictures of the little guy, cause don't think in the hustle and bustle that I didn't grab my camera. Hopefully my next post will be from home and it will be only a few hours from now. But they won't let us leave until the bleeding has stopped and he's no longer dehydrated. I feel really lucky to live in Utah right now where we have Primary Children's and all these great doctors that specialize in children. And to only live an hour away (even with Ute football traffic on Saturday.) I can't imagine living far away and having to travel a long distance to get here. We really are so blessed.