Author: Kristen Porter

Jeremy antics
This week has been an adventure medically for the Porter family. On Monday at recess Rebecca broke her arm - snapped the ulna neatly in two. We have a good orthopedic surgeon after Joanna's adventure last year, so she'll be fine.

Anyway, on Thursday Jeremy woke up with urine the color of Dr.Pepper again. We ended up at the pediatrician, the hospital, the nephrologist, the blood lab, and radiology. For 8 hours I was alone with him and he was cracking me up.

We played the "I got your nose" game with every body part imaginable. Then he started "I got your head". At first he would take my head and not give it back. Then he threw it into the hallway and I said "You can't do that, go get my head and give it back". He said "Mom, you can't talk, you don't have a head". So I started gesturing toward the hallway trying to get him to understand that if he didn't go get my head he was going to be in big trouble. He said "I don't think I'm going to give you your head back, I like it when you can't talk". Finally he got my head out of the hallway, but instead of giving it back, he took off his head and put mine on and said in a high pitched voice "I'm Mommy, so you have to do what I say!"

Anyway, we had a lot of fun. We learned that the blood is not being caused by an infection like strep, and it isn't being caused by kidney stones. Everyone is trying to rack their brains and figure out what could be causing this. I'll let you know when we find out.

Thanks for reading my silly story.
- Kristen