Out Of The Hospital

Dominik was released from Primary Children's Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon. He is on three medications to control his reflux. All three of them are the maximum dose he can take for his weight. Hopefully this will help. He had three tests done while we were at the hospital. The first one is called an Upper GI. They gave him barium (nasty stuff, but he took it like a champ) and watched it go down using an x-ray. That test came back for "evidence of reflux" (duh). The second was called a swallow study to see how well he swallows. They gave him barium in different consistancies that was came back normal. And the third test was called a Ph Probe. They put a probe through his nose and into his esophagus to test the ph in his belly. We haven't gotten the results of that test back yet. We were supposed to know today, but I haven't received the call yet.
When Dominik was doing the Upper GI they found a coin in his bowels. So we think this last "episode" was actually him choking, but when I did the back blows the coin went down instead of up. I always do back blows first just in case he really isn't choking, but since nothing came up we just assumed it was his reflux that made him quit breathing again. The coin did come out while we were at the hospital. It was a penny!! We saved it and I am going to put a shelf up by our front door to remind us to put all of our change in a change jar before going up stairs so we won't have anymore change lying around for Dominik to put in his mouth.
So far the last two days have gone quite well. No episodes. He have been such a trooper through all of this.