lovemickeya - I'm so glad you're feeling a bit better. Moms carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. It's a tough gig.
When our kids hurt, we hurt even more.
Not sure if I shared my story before or not...but I'll share a bit of it now.
When my son was 11 months old he started having fevers. It lasted for weeks! We took him to the Dr several times. We were told he had an ear infection. We gave him meds, the fevers continued. We took him to the ER more than once. They would say ear infection. He was crying off and on all day. He wasn't sleeping at night. He cried SO hard he had broken blood vessels all over his face. As his mom, it was PURE torture.
I was finally done, no one was helping my child. I knew there was something much worse going on. We ended up contacting our regular family Dr who told us if it was his child he would take him right to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Due to insurance stuff we couldn't go there but there's another fantastic hospital right in NJ. (Cooper)
We took him there to the ER. They found the problem within about 15 minutes. He had an infection at the base of his spine and it was slowly working it's way up. If we didn't catch it he would have had brain damage or possibly died. He also had a tethered cord, which means it was attached on the inside of his body. He had always had a little 'dimple' at the base of his spine, right above his butt. Turns out it was open and that's where the infection occurred. The dimple was the sign that he was born with Spina Bifida Occulta. Apparently if you have to be born with a version of SB, that's the one to get.
Anyway, Cooper diagnosed the problem and we needed to see a Pediatric Neurologist. Their Ped Neuro guy had just left so they ended up transferring us to Children's in Philly. (the BEST hospital around and since we had no choice but to go there it was okay with our insurance) We met with the surgeon who had written an entire piece in a medical journal about the same exact condition he had and he gave us some heart breaking news. He told us that not only was it possible that Noah would never walk, but he'd most likely never be potty trained. My husband and I were relieved a little because the Dr didn't realize that Noah started walking at 9 months. But the potty training thing broke our hearts. We cried and cried.
He ended up having surgery on his spine and a 10 day hospital stay. He had to get a PIC Line. His surgery was the day after Mother's Day. He came home with the PIC Line in place so I could continue to give him extremely strong antibiotics to kill that infection. Along with the potty training they told us that he would probably have pain while he was growing because of scar tissue.
We went back a year later for a followup MRI and everything was fine. The Dr even said that there was NO sign of any scar tissue at all. At the time, we got the pleasure of telling the Dr that not only had he been fine, without pain but he was already fully potty trained too.
He has had NO problems since then. The only evidence of the surgery is the 5 inch scar down his back.
Then there's my daughter, she had surgery at the same hospital at 9 weeks. She had Pyloric Stenosis, where the stomach muscle thickens and doesn't allow food to go down. Without surgery the children starve. Thankfully her surgery was done laparascopically and she came home the next day good as new. You can't even see the tiny little marks on her stomach. (well, I can but that's just because I know they're there!)
I'm so sorry I went on and on like that. It's just that I truly know what it's like to feel so helpless when you're child has to face something medically, especially when they don't necessarily understand why it's happening.
(If you guys don't want to read all of that I understand...it just felt REALLY good to type it all out. Sometimes, thinking back, it still rips my heart out)
Do they have something against Philly or the Prudential Center??
I'm sorry. I'm sure it'll work out fine. But I know how hard it is to have a child that goes through something scary. 
You're a good mom. 
