The things I think about at night.... Weird and random, I know.
Anymore nearly every conversation, usually at the dinner table, comes back around to discussing poop. One of the little boys has pooped on the floor (literally), poop fell out of Cade's diaper onto the floor, Colton pooped his pants, one of them pooped in the bathtub or whatever weird poop story for the day that can be imagined. The other day as I was changing Cade's diaper I heard David laughing - I had told Cade that he had some really good poop, not something you hear in a conversation every day.
Changing Cade's diaper is always a treat - you never know what you're going to get. It's like playing slot machines or opening a Christmas present. Before we ever knew about CF and that it caused digestive issues, all we knew was that Cade had some really smelly diapers. We didn't think too much about it other than he could stink up a room. We didn't know that there was anything wrong with him. Once we found out Cade had CF, his poop became the news of the day for us. His poop told us a lot about what was going on inside his body - not enough enzymes, too many enzymes, too much iron, etc. Before he started taking his enzymes (he was starving, and we didn't know it) his poop was slimy and greasy. Now every time is a surprise on what we're going to see. There are always CF poop stories on Facebook from CF patients or other CF parents and I can relate to almost all of them. Cade's funky poop smell comes from his food digestion problems.
Now to the puke. During the first month of Cade's life he would spit up like any other baby. Throw in the projectile, miss him and whomever was holding him, vomiting at least once a day and that's what we were dealing with. At a month old we found out his pancreas was not working properly. When his enzymes were working, the vomiting stopped. His puke was like our indicator when he needed his enzymes increased. Projectile vomiting = the need for more enzymes. He hasn't had many problems since last January. We haven't had to increase the dosage of enzymes just add another med to help them work. Last Saturday night he did this, so this is where the puking part comes from. He has this weird, random puking that he does. He has nights where he will throw up completely out of the blue. We do not know why. We do not know what causes him to do it. We do not know when it is going to happen. Saturday night we were coming back from a softball tournament. Somewhere along the way Cade threw up. It was quiet and we had no idea until we got home and was getting him out of his car seat. He never said a word about it happening. We never heard it. Colton never said Cade was throwing up.
I know all of it has to do with the CF, it is just such a sucky disease!
Now to cheer on the Royals!!!
