Isabella's Journey

As some of you may know Isabella was hospitalized again this past week.  On Monday she started throwing up and was unable to keep anything down.  By Tuesday morning she was lethargic, dry, and consistently vomiting so we took her to Dr. German who then admitted her.  Today we had a follow-up with Dr. German and he said that from the radiology report it looks like her left colon is inflamed.  What does this mean?  This means a trip to Swedish to see a GI doctor who specializes in inflammation and possibly more tests.  On the wide scale of things this could be something that can be quickly treated or it could mean inflammatory bowel disease. 

Since they found the cow's milk allergy she has been doing better up to this past week.  Kirk and I are first hoping for the best but also preparing ourselves for a potential chronic GI issue that we will need to help Isabella get through.  The positive thing is all of this can be treated.  The negative is watching a young five year old going through procedures, and not to mention living with daily abdominal pain.  These are procedures that a five year old should not even have to endure, but life is not always fair and we will all learn something from this hardship.  We see the GI on Tuesday.  Prayers for finding answers, solutions, and healing would be appreciated.  I hope on Tuesday night I can report an easy solution  to all of this!


By the way Zach has been doing well with all of this.  I'm very proud of him he has been a great big brother!