Introducing........Acute Recurring Pediatric Pancreatitis

So for two years one of our children got sick more frequently than the other two.  As parents you dismiss certain puking episodes as the flu or something that he ate or a food intolerance.  It did start to worry us when the flu wouldn't ever hit any other people in our family.  After several visits to the general pediatrician, and an ER visit, we visited a pediatric gastro doc.  We were thinking, finally, some answers. Boy were we wrong...

April 2014 visit and diagnosis was a combination of mild constipation and acid re-flux.  Prev-acid and Mira-lax prescriptions and away we go.

July 2014 Almost wrapping up baseball and softball season, my son is hunched over screaming in pain. The wonderful parent that I am, I really thought that this was a small ploy to get out of football camp we had signed him up for. The child is in love with sports but maybe he is scared to start or something. Tough love, we paid for the camp, now get up and go. Asking an eight year old if he would rather go see the doctor or go to camp and he chooses the doctor?! There is something wrong there. When I had pulled myself together I had noticed he had balled himself up on the floor, tears streaming from his eyes, mumbling something.  Big red flags are thrown up.  This is not right. What's going on? I carried him to the car freaking out on my daughters to hurry hurry hurry (another proud mom moment).  To the walk in we went.  Thank goodness after an xray, the walk in clinic doctor knew his stuff and called the ER and sent us right away. Words can't describe the amount of guilt I was feeling as a mom. Tough love. Bull crap Nance, now look. Jaundice set in, rolling of the eyes, and now vomiting in the car on the way to the ER. There is no chance that this is the flu, something he ate, or a food intolerance....