Josy

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Poor Josy has a rough couple of weeks. Last week he was sick with a stomach bug and ended up with two rounds of it, 48 hours apart. Then this week he’s been better, but not quite. He was still off somehow. He was eating okay, but not the best. He wasn’t quite as happy as normal. Things weren’t flowing quite as well as they should be. And his belly has been really big. Pat and I were debating taking him to the doctor, but we couldn’t put our finger on an actual problem.

Then on Friday, he said that he had to go to the bathroom, but he was clearly constipated. I took him to school and told them that he was probably going to need to use the bathroom. Then say noon, they called me to say that he’d been crying all morning and now has diarrhea. So I picked him up and called the doctor and a few minutes later we found ourselves in urgent care.

He was excited to wear his doggie mask. He was not excited when they told him that he has to wear one of their disposable ones.



Anyway, they looked him over, gave him a sucker and told me that he needed belly xrays.







The he proceeded to put the sucker on the floor so that he could take his gown off and was not happy when I told him that it had to go in the garbage. 

It turns out that he has impacted stool and we need to get it cleared out before it becomes an actual blockage. I’ll spare you any more details, but suffice it to say that we’re having a fun weekend…

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