Random Comments/Stream of Consciousness Thread

[Br!an]

I just realized that I'm up an hour early since I didn't set the clocks back last night.

Daylight savings was on Saturday night. Were you an hour off all day yesterday?

I suppose so. I don't look at the clock much on Sunday.

[bdwyer19]

Keeping your family in my prayers Tim. Hope the doctors figure out what is wrong very soon.

[jhanic]

Tim, my prayers are with your daughter and your family.

John

[becca69]

Tim, I hope she is feeling better very soon and they can pinpoint the issue quickly. Sending good wishes to her and the family.

[Randall Flagg]

Good Dt.org mojo being sent your way Tim.

[herbertwest]

I am confident that this is nothing serious and everything will be just fine !
Take care

[peripheral]

Tim, wishing you and your family all the best. having children around the same age, I know not being able to help them would be just an awful experience. Keep us updated.

[Merlin1958]

Good thoughts being sent your way, Tim!!!!!

[Johnny007]

really reeling here. earlier today my four-year-old just started screaming - SCREAMING - and was so clearly in pain but could only articulate that it was her stomach. screamed herself hoarse. no idea what was wrong, no indication that she was in distress more than just from the cold she'd been battling. took her to the ER and they checked for the obvious problem (appendicitis) but that was not the case. could not calm her screaming and begging for help until they managed to sedate her and attempt to manage the pain. she's checked in, no one has any idea what the problem is, and my wife and i are starting shifts between her at hospital and our 2.5 year old at home. i'm just at a total loss, there's literally nothing i can do, it's the hardest thing i've ever dealt with - a child screaming and begging for my help and i can't do one single thing. trying to keep the younger one from freaking out but having a hard time not doing it myself. no idea where this is going.

not sure what the goal is here but this site is my only "social media" and is a distraction for me (at good times and bad). pelase send some good mojo my way and also keep posting lots of interesting stuff so i can get a few minutes outside of my head here and there by reading about stuff like folio's dipshittery and interesting bookcases and whatever paul's up to.

Prayers and best wishes for your young one.

John

[wizardsrainbow]

GOOD MOJO SENT!!!!!!!!!! Having three kids myself, just an AWFUL situation.....Hope it turns out ok.

[Hunchback Jack]

Sending good thoughts and good mojo to your daughter and your family. Please keep us updated.

[Iwritecode]

I remember having a similair episode when I was a kid. I couldn't been more than 6 or 7. I had a horrible sharp pain in my stomach and I didn't know why. My parents took me to the ER but they didn't find anything and sent me back home. It came and went but eventually passed.

Looking back, I honestly think it was just gas. I still get it sometimes but I think my pain tolerance is higher now.

Hopefully it's something as simple with your daughter.

[lotuz]

Thank you so much everyone for the outpouring of support. It reaffirms to me that this is a good community in both large ways and small and I sincerely appreciate it. Really and truly.

An update: the early part of the experience went much as George described. Then, when she was finally able, she answered as many questions as she could (which turned out to be a good number of them), and between those answers and the first series of test results, they effectively ruled out most of the common causes of intense abdominal pain. At this point the intense pain has subsided (for now); there is some inflammation and also her stomach is sore from essentially clenching her abs as hard as she possible could for hours and hours.

The next steps, which we are navigating now, are to decide what level of medical scrutiny to subject a 4-year-old to in order to determine if there is traceable etiology - was this a one-off that they just can't put their finger on? Or is there potentially some underlying problem that may cause this again in the future? This part is definitely not as hard as watching your child experience extreme pain and not being able to do anything, but it's still no picnic.

My wife is a nurse, and I was trained as an epidemiologist, so pretty much I have spent the last couple of days alternating between distracting myself with TDT (and reading and re-reading the Suntup announcement about 1,000 times - that's some good escapism, right there) and reading journal articles and case reports about kids presenting with intense abdominal pain. The latter has resulted in me asking my wife "what about Problem X/Y/Z?" a hundred times, and her explaining to me a hundred time that the doctors already thought about Problem X/Y/Z and that's why they did Thing A/B/C.

The bottom line is that we are not done trying to figure out what happened, but at some point soon we will need to be, even if we don't have a solution, because my incredible daughter can only be expected to endure so much on top of the already nightmarish experience of being suddenly struck with excruciating pain.

Again, thank you so much everyone for your positive thoughts - it really does mean a lot to me.

[Hunchback Jack]

I'm glad to hear things have improved with your daughter, Tim. Sending hopes your way that the trend continues. Hang in there.

[Lurker]

Good news.

[amd013]

I guess thats both good and bad news. Sometimes it can be better to find something, just so you know what it is and how to fix it. The not knowing can be bad too.

I have been having mild pain/discomfort in my abdomen since beginning of Sep. After several tests, finally determined it is my gall bladder. Although the result means I need to have it removed, it is still good to know what it is, and how to fix it.

More good wishes for your daughter. Hopefully it was just gas, as someone suggested.

[amd013]

Hmmm, weird, for a short period I noticed my "title" changed from "Demon of the Prim" to "John Cusack", and is now back to "Demon of the Prim".

Oh!!!!! It just hit me, it was after post 1408 that I was John Cusack. Clever!!

[Brian861]

Thanks for the update, Tim and continued best wishes moving forward.

[SystemCrashOverRide]

Glad to hear that her pain subsided Tim, I hope it truly turns out to have been a single passing occurrence.

Off-topic (If such a thing can exist in this thread), I'm sad that we're not doing Secret Santa this year.

[Roseannebarr]

Glad to hear that her pain subsided Tim, I hope it truly turns out to have been a single passing occurrence.

Off-topic (If such a thing can exist in this thread), I'm sad that we're not doing Secret Santa this year.

We did not do it last year. It was ruined.😢🦄

[webstar1000]

Glad to hear that her pain subsided Tim, I hope it truly turns out to have been a single passing occurrence.

Off-topic (If such a thing can exist in this thread), I'm sad that we're not doing Secret Santa this year.

We did not do it last year. It was ruined.

Yeah it was ruined. I’ll never do it again. Others can feel free to do it but I’ll have no part of it again.


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[The Library Policeman]

It got ruined before 2017. Totally put me off any so I stopped doing it also.

[OldCrow88]

Random, but interesting: https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/doctor...g-stephen-king

[Cook]

Just curious, ruined how?

Glad to hear that her pain subsided Tim, I hope it truly turns out to have been a single passing occurrence.

Off-topic (If such a thing can exist in this thread), I'm sad that we're not doing Secret Santa this year.

We did not do it last year. It was ruined.

Yeah it was ruined. I’ll never do it again. Others can feel free to do it but I’ll have no part of it again.


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[Ari_Racing]

Hope it's nothing serious and that she gets well very soon!