Pyloric Stenosis

Ok, not much new is going on so I am going to take a chance to Journal about past events. This story is old news for most of you, so bear with me. But heck, it was over 13 years ago so hopefully this wont bore you too much! :)

When Myles was born he was the perfect little baby boy, except for one thing.. Projectile Vomiting! He was a great eater, but he just couldn't keep much in his stomach for very long. After a couple of weeks of this we took him to a doctor and then to more then one ER. They said he was fine and just had a touchy stomach.
Finally while at the ER Myles threw up in front of the doctor. You should have seen the doctors face! He was like "What the hell was that?" and we were like "That is what we have been trying to explain to you!" So the doc finely takes us seriously and decides to transfer us to CHOC (Children's Hospital of Orange County).
Once we get to CHOC they diagnose Myles with Pyloric Stenosis (which incidentally my Dad had and we had told the previous doctors that). They decide they have to do surgery but that Myles is too dehydrated to go into surgery as his veins had started to collapse. So it takes over an hour to get an IV into a viable vein (they end up putting the IV into his scalp) and then we had to wait for him to stabilize. Finally they are able to do the surgery and everything goes well. They were able to do the surgery laparoscopically, so Myles only has 3 very tiny scars (whereas my Dad has a full abdominal scar from his surgery). Myles was still a spitter after he was fed, but nothing like before.
Pyloric Stenosis is where the Pyloric muscle that pumps the food from your stomach into your intestines is just too darn strong. So instead of a smooth pumping of the food, your stomach gets a giant contraction and sends the food back out the way it came in. This makes it so no nutrients makes it into the system, so you are ultimately starving. So they just went in with lasers and zapped the Pyloric muscle to weaken it enough to function properly. This is most commonly manifested in boys, but girls are the carrier of the disorder. So if I had anymore boys they have a high chance of having the same thing and my girls would carry the gene. So see, it is a good thing that we are just having Dogs from now on :)

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