Yesterday was the longest trip ever from Maryland to South Carolina. We didn’t leave until almost 11 and didn’t get home until almost 9. I think we stopped every 2 hours and even one at a pumpkin patch.
And one stop almost ended in a hospital visit.
We’d been on the road for about 2 1/2 hours straight and Lexi started crying and trying to rub her stomach under her car seat strap. She seemed to be itching or in pain. I told Heather to undo part of her strap so she could get to it to see if she calmed down but she didn’t and even got worse. I pulled over to a gas station right away and she seemed in pain. I asked her if her stomach hurt and she said yes. I look at her tummy and saw that it looked bloated like on the right side and was hard as a rock. She screamed in pain when I touched her. I thought maybe she was constipated really bad and needed to get a laxative. We got directions to a hospital and I strapped in with her in the back seat while Heather drove. Lexi was calm as long as I was holding her and she was asleep within a minute on the road. I decided if she was in that much pain she wouldn’t have been able to sleep so calmly so we decided to try to get home. We were a good four or five hours away but Lexi takes really long naps and if she slept that long, I figured even if she was still in pain, at least we’d be closer to home. Right after she went to sleep, she peed a lot. Like the whole diaper front to back. I felt on her belly and whatever hardness was there, it seemed to be gone. We had stopped at that pumpkin patch and Lexi had fresh apple cider and an apple there and we’ve been curious in the past if she was allergic to apple juice. My theory is she had to pee and then may have had gas on top of that causing the pain. Anyway, she woke up 2 hours later or so and was perfectly fine.
In other news from yesterday we found out my grandmother’s cancer is not gone. She had it in more places in her breasts so she has to have another surgery now and it was also in her lymphnodes so she has to have chemo as well. We’re all disappointed.
I came home last night to an extremely clean house and a newly built shelf hung above my tv that I had “ordered” from Scott and was made as a surprise. I had all these plans to blog and watch my TIVO’d shows but it was so nice at home all I could do is just relax in my bed where I quickly went to sleep. I hadn’t done that all weekend. I guess the best vacation really is just being comfortable and relaxed at home.