Kintropy In Action

I was concerned it was a cyst in her ovary. I know she is young, but two years ago she had a mucinous cystadenoma in her left ovary. It was growing abscesses, affecting her bowels, and giving her pain. That ovary has been removed, but we have been having a yearly ultrasound to check on the progress of the other ovary.

Since she was going under for the tonsils, I went ahead and had the ultrasound done again. The doctors didn't see anything that they thought would be causing pain. I talked it over with her physical therapist who took Hannah through some muscular work out and determined it wasn't sore muscles. I took her to her General Practitioner with a tub of Hannah's pee. There were no pathogens and no blood in her urine, so there was no infection and no stones. So finally I went to the GI doctor.

She hasn't been stooling everyday for most of her life. She is more of once every three day type of girl. I have been supplementing her food with prune juice and acidophilus to help keep things moving. Still it has been an every three day occurrence, plus she usually started the stomach grabbing after the second day of not stooling. So the GI doctor suspects it's constipation and low muscle tone internally. He has changed her antacid to a laxative.

Unfortunately, the dose is not right, and Hannah has the runs.

Today, when Hannah was on the potty I heard her call “All done!”

I walked in the find her hand, cheeks and legs covered in brown, smelly slime.

“YUCK!”

Obviously the dose is too much and needs to be adjusted.

I wiped her down with a washcloth as I lectured her that her body is trying to get rid of this substance. It's not to play with and, wince, not to eat. I told her she can get real sick doing this as I turned on the water in the tub for her second bath of the day. I soaped her up and rinsed her completely down with the shower head. Then filled the tub with water for another bath.

Before I had kids I was terrified of poop.

--Mom