About 3 weeks ago Brent started having blood in his stool after going to his pediatrician a couple of times. He decided to draw blood, which was an ordeal in it self. Luckily Ryan made it home in time to come hold Brent while they drew his blood. He told the Doctor that he was very nervous. His doctor wanted him to see a Gastroenterologist. Which I thought great how long is this going to drag on for since we have an HMO and have to get authorization. The next day (Friday) I get a call they have the authorization and here's the number to call for an appointment with the pediatric Gastroenterologist. The blood work came back normal. I call and get an appointment for that following Tuesday and luckily again Ryan is off in the morning so he can go with us. The Gastroenterologist thought that it might be a polyp and tried to feel around to see but no such luck. He decided to schedule a flexi- sigmoidoscopy for the following Friday, which was yesterday. We explained it to Brent as much as we could but I was still very nervous how he would react when we got to the hospital. How they were going to get an IV in? And the list could go on of all my worries. He did a great job. They let us go into the procedure room with him and let us watch while they gave him some gas before putting the IV. At this point I had to leave. I could not watch him twitching and rolling his eyes into the back of his head (writing this is making me tear up). I went to the waiting room while Ryan stayed in there for the entire procedure. He came out of it find and was back to himself about an hour later. He was very excited to eat the pink doughnut that Ryan bought him on the way to get the car. He was also excited to play his new Toy Story 3 video game.
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