Bryce developed severe abdominal pain that was periumbilical and doubled him over in teeth chattering pain. He had had some fevers up to 104.5 twice isolated for less than 24 hours in the three prior weeks that were non-focal. All of this together led to a trip to the emergency department. He had complete relief of pain within about 2 hours of arriving at the ER. He watched "Happy Feet" and drank a little water. Soon he was feeling really good and wondering why he needed to stay longer. We explained that his ER doctor was probably upstairs at one of the code blues that had been called overhead, which indeed he was. There have been no recurrences of the abdominal pain and Bryce wanted to go to Panda Express afterward for dinner, we tempered his expectations and gave him chocolate milk and pretzels from the hospital cafeteria.
A few days later, Griffin came down with pink eye and needed treatment with antibiotic eye drops. He got so good at remembering his eye drops, which were 6 times a day, that he would politely come up to Mom or Dad and announce it was time for his eye drops, which he would bravely take.
