update again: barium moved through just fine. no obstructions. sac of fluid in intestines was thought to be suspicious but upon further inspection has been deemed a non-issue. I can’t remember if she said it was gone or not.
he has been fed and is keeping everything down just fine. now just waiting for that bowel movement. she’s not too concerned that he hasn’t passed anything yet. considering how empty he was, it will take some time to form a stool. and she’s also happy that the food hasn’t just came right out in another explosive diarrhea episode.
she addressed my two other concerns of inflammatory bowel disease and lymphangiectasia.
she said absolutely not lymphangiectasia, that has very specific characteristics and she would’ve been able to tell from the ultrasound/xrays. she is not ready to jump to inflammatory bowel disease just because this came on so quickly and seems like an acute event. she’s not sure if it was just a reaction so something bad he ate, or a virus I did not give him time to recover from. I feel badly that I kept trying to get him to eat different things, which probably added to the problem. but as they say… hindsight….
I was ready to throw out our canidae food after this event, but she doesn’t believe he would have such an intense reaction almost a month after we switched him to the food. I’m still so worried. that is my one main concern, what food should I feed him after he’s done with the bland baby food diet.
he MAY get to come home today. if no bowel movement, he will be staying another night and we are going to go visit him. I haven’t seen him in 2-1/2 days. I miss my little chunk so much.
I feel like a crazy person always updating so much, but I hope someday this can help someone else here! Now I’m off to the store to buy baby food and pepcid...
. If Frank comes home today...YOU HAVE to post a picture so we can all see his face!
