Not happy!

Man I am one mad momma!!  

I have had this gut instinct that there was something wrong with Rhett from the time he was in the hospital and wasn't eating anything.  Normally he is eating often and he is excited to eat pudding, ice cream, and much more.  I mean heck he has a menu where he can order anything that he wants from the book anytime from about 7 am until 8 pm.  But no he wasn't eating hardly anything.  That is so very weird for him.  So when I brought it to someones attention like a nurse, or a doctor they would just tell me that he is doing ok and leave it at that. 

They had done a crit test(basically a test telling how much iron is in his body) Thursday after his surgery and then again Friday really early morning and it had gone from 36 to 31 which is really not good.  Sent the nurse into a little fluster trying to help him.  They had to contact so and so and they told them what they found asked if he needed a certain thing and found out they are just going to watch him for now and see if it goes up on his own.  Well they checked it again I want to say Friday afternoon or Saturday.  It had gone up to 33 from 31.  That is good at least it is headed the right direction.  They decided that they didn't need to take another test since it was headed up.  Then it was work on getting him up and moving so we could get home.

Saturday he showed his back and he had this hole in his back on the site where he had surgery near his shoulder.  It was almost 10 pm so I decided to put a band-aid on it and wait until Monday to talked to the doctor.  So I called this Monday and had to take him in Tuesday morning.  So I took him in and the hole had started healing very well so the doctor said that he is healing well.   I told him that he still isn't acting himself and describe what has been going on, he said to give it time.  So I gave it less than a day and talked to my husband about it and when he said that Rhett was pale and I should take him in I decided that I would and called the doctor Wednesday.  He said to come in and that he would check Rhett out and possible get a crit again.  The doctor asked me when he had surgery and I told him that it had only been about 2 weeks.  Told the doctor my concerns and informed him that he is still not acting himself.  Not eating very much, tired a lot, weak, etc...  So the doctor listened to him and looked in his ears, nose, mouth... the normal thing doctors do.  He said that he was breathing harder then normal and asked me if I thought he was and I said yes.  He said he has had a little infection and need to put drops in his ear, also said that he wanted to get some x-rays too.  Then he looked at Rhett and said something like, 'Rhett we try to avoid this, but we are going to need a little bit of blood to do a test.  You have a choice to either have it taken from your finger or your arm.'  Of course he said finger.  So we headed to have the lab work done then the x-rays done.  Some of the lab work came back before we got back from getting the x-rays done.  So I found out that the crit was 33 and he needs to be on iron.  Also there is some hazy stuff in his right lung.  Not sure what it is or what it is from, but the doctor is going to have the hospital person compare the x-rays from Wednesday to the ones he had taken in the hospital when he was up there for his surgery.

So apparently his crit never went up after they last took and tested his blood in the hospital!!!  What the crap!!!  Why didn't anyone listen to me while we were at the hospital???  I have a PhD in Rhett they should take me more seriously.  So now we are on iron and ear drops for now and will find out a little later today about his lungs.  I am not sure if this iron is going to work but if it does great, if not... I don't even want to think about what would happen if it doesn't.  I guess I will have to keep you posted.