Illness

Well, we got back from the trip and Scott started having a sharp pain in his stomach. The bad part of this is Scott didn't tell me that he has this until I caught him doing a huge grimace that looked like it was really bad on Wednesday night. He said that he might go to the doctor if he still had the pain in the morning. Well Wednesday night we didn't sleep much as he was not doing well so he went to the doctor on Thursday afternoon.

when he went there they thought it might be kidney stones so they did an x-ray. Didn't see anything so then they said they wanted to do a CT scan to see if it was something called diverticulitis. Now diverticulitis is something that usually happens to older people but we were aware of this disease because of a MMA fighter who has dealt with it within the past year. The bad thing about the CT is our insurance requires it to be pre-approved so he had to wait until Tuesday to have it.

We went through the weekend as normal but he was still sick and said that he was "fine." Luckily the pain didn't get worse and didn't have to make an ER visit. Scott kept telling me through the weekend it was kidney stones, even though they didn't see any in the x-ray, I thought differently.

Tuesday came around and he did the CT in the morning and then went back to work. The technician told him that he will need to come back in at the end of the week after they get the results evaluated. He received a call about an hour later- the doctor told him he had to come in that day. Not a good thing.

He went into the doctor and he said that with just preliminary analysis of his scan he knows he has diverticulitis. Awesome. The more crazy thing about this is Scott is the youngest person that he has ever seen with the disease. Even better, right? So now our healthy lifestyle change will be reinforced. More fruit, veggies, and fiber will be in the Hortin's home.

Lets hope that the inflammation goes away after this 10 day antibiotic stint and we won't have to deal with a flair up ever again. :)