Last night after a perfectly fine normal day, my DS became mildly upset, which changed rather quickly to utterly inconsolable! DH thought he might be having trouble with constipation so he ran him a nice warm bath. When DS wouldn't sit in it he called me back to help. When I walked into the bathroom I noticed his entire penis was extremely swollen, w/ the foreskin area looking red and angry. His groin area was also swollen. We also realized it had been several hours since I had to change a wet diaper, the diaper DH changed was just BARELY wet. W/ the amount of liquid DS had yesterday we should have had nothing but soaked diapers. I placed a call to the ped, but since we couldn't get him to settle in anyway we decided to head to Children's. Since we were at the inlaws they decided they were coming too.
Childrens got us right back to a room w/in 5 minutes of getting to the ER. We saw a doc w/in the first 20 minutes. DS was miserable the whole time, and getting his legs in a specific position was the only way to calm him (which meant he was standing on the twins lol so my belly was less than impressed w/ my manouvers) When the doc came in she checked him out and had no clue, so got the attending. She came in and did SLIGHTLY retract him. I'm not as upset about that, because a TON of foul smelling puss was released when she did that and DS's mood immediately went back to normal. Including filling a diaper w/ pee about 3 minutes later. This was NOT smegma... that I've seen before. This was nasty creamy textured puss, that smelled as bad as his nose did when he had a sinus infection a few weeks ago.
They paged urology for a consult and I was immediately on guard for being told he needed circ'd. Got into an arguement w/ the IL's because they said if the doc says it's necessary then you have to do it. BULL! I not so politely asked them if was should have cut his ear off when he had an ear infection, or his nose maybe for his sinus infection? Informed them that we would take consult after consult if necessary to get a doc that would treat the problem instead of going to surgery!
I was SERIOUSLY ticked at this point. Shortly after they came in and told me they were going to cath him for a urine sample to rule out a UTI. i said that was fine but they needed to make sure they sent in a nurse who knows how to cath an intact penis w/o retracting or at least fully retracting since I know it's possible. THey told me that wouldn't be a problem.
Next a nurse came in, her tech and I held DS down, DH was watching at the bottom of the bed. He KNOWS retracting is BAD! I was concentrating on DS trying to keep him as calm as possible (yeah right!) So I wasn't paying attention the way I should have! At one point he screamed and I looked up and that UAV had fully retracted him! I just froze and started crying! I was afraid if I said anything it would take even longer, or they'd have to start all over again... or that I'd get tossed from the hospital because I was beyond angry at that point. I can't get over the fact that I LET THEM DO THAT TO HIM!
Right after this the urologist came in... I swear to you if he would have said word one about circing or retracting or tried to retract him I would have gotten violent. I think I was shaking as much as DS was at this point. He actually shocked me because he told me we were doing the right thing in not retracting him EVER. Also to NEVER retract him and that they should have been able to cath him w/o forcing his foreskin back! He seemed just as upset as I was. He told me that most likely DS had a sebaceous cyst either in the foreskin or on the head of the penis that got infected. Said that even circ'd boys can get them... dunno about that but it at least shut my inlaws up. Prescribed an antibiotic and bactrin cream with instructions to apply 3 times a day. He did say that it needed to get into the foreskin opening, but I'm not even prepared to "gently" retract DS (that's an oxymoron if I've EVER heard one!) So I'm hoping it's ok to just put the cream over the opening because that's all I'm willing to do...
I'm still so angry about the entire night! At myself most of all for not paying attention. At DH for not saying anything, at that UAV nurse for what she did to my baby!!!! At my inlaws for making me defend myself to them, and honestly for being there in the first place because all FIL did was pace and then once DS was feeling better he traipsed him, barefoot up and down the halls to occupy him.... umm hello germs, sick people... let's try not getting the baby sick AGAIN! (Why did he do that you ask... well that's what DS wanted of course! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! who is the adult here! we were perfectly capable of keeping him entertained in the room, and when I tell you to bring him back BRING HIM BACK!!!!!!)
Childrens got us right back to a room w/in 5 minutes of getting to the ER. We saw a doc w/in the first 20 minutes. DS was miserable the whole time, and getting his legs in a specific position was the only way to calm him (which meant he was standing on the twins lol so my belly was less than impressed w/ my manouvers) When the doc came in she checked him out and had no clue, so got the attending. She came in and did SLIGHTLY retract him. I'm not as upset about that, because a TON of foul smelling puss was released when she did that and DS's mood immediately went back to normal. Including filling a diaper w/ pee about 3 minutes later. This was NOT smegma... that I've seen before. This was nasty creamy textured puss, that smelled as bad as his nose did when he had a sinus infection a few weeks ago.
They paged urology for a consult and I was immediately on guard for being told he needed circ'd. Got into an arguement w/ the IL's because they said if the doc says it's necessary then you have to do it. BULL! I not so politely asked them if was should have cut his ear off when he had an ear infection, or his nose maybe for his sinus infection? Informed them that we would take consult after consult if necessary to get a doc that would treat the problem instead of going to surgery!
I was SERIOUSLY ticked at this point. Shortly after they came in and told me they were going to cath him for a urine sample to rule out a UTI. i said that was fine but they needed to make sure they sent in a nurse who knows how to cath an intact penis w/o retracting or at least fully retracting since I know it's possible. THey told me that wouldn't be a problem.
Next a nurse came in, her tech and I held DS down, DH was watching at the bottom of the bed. He KNOWS retracting is BAD! I was concentrating on DS trying to keep him as calm as possible (yeah right!) So I wasn't paying attention the way I should have! At one point he screamed and I looked up and that UAV had fully retracted him! I just froze and started crying! I was afraid if I said anything it would take even longer, or they'd have to start all over again... or that I'd get tossed from the hospital because I was beyond angry at that point. I can't get over the fact that I LET THEM DO THAT TO HIM!
Right after this the urologist came in... I swear to you if he would have said word one about circing or retracting or tried to retract him I would have gotten violent. I think I was shaking as much as DS was at this point. He actually shocked me because he told me we were doing the right thing in not retracting him EVER. Also to NEVER retract him and that they should have been able to cath him w/o forcing his foreskin back! He seemed just as upset as I was. He told me that most likely DS had a sebaceous cyst either in the foreskin or on the head of the penis that got infected. Said that even circ'd boys can get them... dunno about that but it at least shut my inlaws up. Prescribed an antibiotic and bactrin cream with instructions to apply 3 times a day. He did say that it needed to get into the foreskin opening, but I'm not even prepared to "gently" retract DS (that's an oxymoron if I've EVER heard one!) So I'm hoping it's ok to just put the cream over the opening because that's all I'm willing to do...
I'm still so angry about the entire night! At myself most of all for not paying attention. At DH for not saying anything, at that UAV nurse for what she did to my baby!!!! At my inlaws for making me defend myself to them, and honestly for being there in the first place because all FIL did was pace and then once DS was feeling better he traipsed him, barefoot up and down the halls to occupy him.... umm hello germs, sick people... let's try not getting the baby sick AGAIN! (Why did he do that you ask... well that's what DS wanted of course! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! who is the adult here! we were perfectly capable of keeping him entertained in the room, and when I tell you to bring him back BRING HIM BACK!!!!!!)
I'm so sorry your family is going through this. I hope everything works out ok and there's no more trauma to your little boy. 
