Kaleb's night in the hospital

On April 2nd Kaleb had to go to the hospital to have some test run which meant we had to spend the night. They had to put him to sleep which broke my heart because they had us go in the procedure room with him until he was out and then they told us that kids react different to anesthesia than adults do. Their brain goes to sleep right away but their bodies take a minute to catch up so he was jerking and I didn't like it! Anyway he had an upper endoscopy which showed that he has a hiatal hernia but it does go back down on it's own for now so he doesn't need surgery "yet" Then they placed a tube in his stomach so they could do a PH impedance study for 23 hrs. He did really good and didn't pull at the tube at all. I was so proud of him. We just got the results to the PH study last week and the Dr. told me that in that 23 hrs he had 111 episodes of reflux and 80% of them were Acidic so basically the medicine isn't working. She said we really have to get this under control before it causes permanent damage.

This was a really nice hospital. Instead of them bringing you breakfast, lunch, and dinner whenever they wanted we had a menu in our room and we could order what we wanted when we wanted, just like room service :)

He finally fell asleep

The hospital also had a toy room right outside our room so that was nice for a change of scenery.

The nurse told me that a normal PH level is 7 and anything below that meant there was acid present. This was Kaleb's numbers after he hadn't had anything to eat in a few hours. Usually the top number was in the 3 and low 4's.