Granton's Blog

Some of you know we have sporadically had trouble with Granton throwing up all night. We have not put it on the blog too much because he always seems fine in the morning and it seems like such a little thing after all the stuff many of you are used to reading about with the little man. Also, I am more focused on praying for the correct B cells to come back then a little throw-up. Even though when he does this, it is a lot of throw-up. In addition to that, my last blog was about not sweating the small stuff. I must admit I joked with Jenni about being put to the test on that post. In the evening of the very day I posted that blog, I was taking a shower, completely covered in soap suds, and the water shut off. On top of that, we had family in who I hardly ever get to see and not being able to flush the toilets was kind of a downer. Things got worse at about 1:00 a.m. when Granton started his puke fest that lasted until morning. That little story kind of got me off track. In short we got the water flowing again and we are still working on not sweating the small stuff. But back to the throwing up, last week my grandma noticed the little beggar was continually chowing down on some cookies Jenni made. We ruled out the cookies a wile back because he has eaten them before and not thrown up. In fact Jenni has a list of everything he would eat the day before his all night throwing up events. We could not find a pattern. Nothing added up. However, grandmas have been around the block on this parenting thing so I paid close attention. Grandma was not talking as much about WHAT he ate but HOW MUCH he ate. I have watched Granton eat more then me and be fine, but it is always healthy food. We don’t let him have very much junk food. Also, I assumed if his stomach was too full he would throw up once and be fine. When Granton does this he keeps on throwing up and has the dry heaves real bad by the morning before he finishes. However, I did take note of what Grandma said. Well, yesterday our Track and Field team had a BBQ to celebrate this season. Granton loves the track kids and they love him. Some of the track kids fed him and I watched the little begger go around sweet talk kids out of cookies and chips. One girl made him eat grapes. I am proud of her and she will be one of the first I call for a baby sitter. On the way home I thought about all the Oreos and Doritos this kid consumed. If he puked that night, we would know why. Well, I think we have figured out the puking problem. It was not fun sitting up all night with a kid who throws up all over everything but at least now we know why. Granton can eat a lot of food and be fine. Granton can eat junk food and be fine. But, Granton can not eat a lot of junk food and be fine. Hopefully, now we can keep him from throwing up at night. I think we over fed him through his G tube back when he was staying in KC because, he would puke all the time and had real bad diarrhea. Oh yea, I forgot to mention Granton always had bad diarrhea when he pukes all night. Anyway, I think his body simply learned to say ENOUGH! When it feels overloaded it gets everything out, literally. Now we will just try to keep him from overloading his system. That is about all for now. We are still are praying for the correct B cells to come back and we appreciate you joining us in this prayer. Thank you so much for the love you have shown Granton and our family.