It’s January 18th, my husband and I are going to board a plane tomorrow for the trip of a lifetime. We are going to Buenos Aires for the weekend then to Cordoba for some amazing scenery. My mother is coming in to care for my 10 year old son. So you know what that means…going over schedules, writing out directions so that someone from a small town may be able to find her way around the big city, and leaving emergency contact information in case something might happen. (Foreshadowing)
We board the plane and fly ten hours finally arriving in Buenos Aires. We had a wonderful weekend in this amazing city. Its summer so we relaxed at the pool, enjoyed beautiful architecture, great food, shopping and, of course, tango dancing. On Sunday morning and it’s time to board another plane for Cordoba to experience nature at its finest. As any mother would, I contact my mother back home to check in on things and everything was great.
The Cordoba plane trip lasted an hour and a half, and then we had a two-hour drive to the ranch. Let the fun begin, right?. We had an amazing lunch then set out to see the beautiful area. After a few hours we went back to the lodge for dinner. Then it happened, that dreaded phone call from home. My mother called to inform us that our son was in the emergency room and scheduled for emergency abdominal surgery.
The CAT scan suggested small intestinal intussusception. Which means the small bowel had folded inside itself. The studies could not determine the underlying cause for the problem. Frantically my husband began trying to arrange a change in travel to get us home as soon as possible. Me, I started throwing stuff in the suit case so we could begin the journey home. By the time we had all the arrangements made it was about two in the morning. We left for the Cordoba airport arriving back in Dallas twenty-five hours later.
I walked into my son’s hospital room and my heart nearly stopped. He had tubes everywhere, he looked frail and he was asleep. His surgery was a success. The condition was caused by benign meckel’s diverticulum, a small out pouching from the small intestine that occurs in two percent of the population. Fast forward one week, he has returned to school sore but doing well.
Thank goodness for great medical care provided by the doctors, nurses, PA’s, surgical assistants and more. They all made a difference in a great outcome.
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