We left San Diego and loved the drive north along the 5 freeway - the ocean was so beautiful to watch as we headed home. We decided to stop halfway at the KidSpace museum in Glendale/Pasadena. The temperature was very high in the area, but fortunately the museum has several indoor, air conditioned exhibits.
In the car (about 30 minutes before we arrived at the museum), Nolan asked me to vent his tummy. He had eaten two pancakes for breakfast, so I thought perhaps he was just overly full. Nothing came out via his g-tube, however, so we unhooked him and carried on our way. He seemed OK by the time we went to the museum, so we went into the main (indoor) exhibit area.
They have fantastic climbing towers, simulated ant-hills into the floor, and many other exhibits.
Unfortunately, we didn't get to see much of this museum. Nolan just wasn't quite "right," and a few minutes later he sat down in front of the ant tunnels.
I took a picture to show his ENT or surgeon how he gets very fatigued/tummy issues at random intervals. Approximately 3 seconds after this photo was snapped, he started to vomit. I left Dennis and Matt in the exhibit hall and took Nolan to the museum office.
Unfortunately, he didn't get better there. After three more vomits, I sent the staff in search of my husband and Matt. We packed up a lot of plastic bags, got into the car, and braved the traffic back to Oxnard. We used every. single. bag.
Nolan fell asleep once we arrived at my parent's house, and remained asleep for another two hours. When he woke up, he was a bit unsteady for half an hour or so, then he was right as rain. The entire "attack" (or whatever you might call it) lasted exactly four hours. We stayed home the rest of the evening and let him play around the house.
We were rather bummed to miss all the really cool things the museum had to offer, but what can you do? Thankfully Nolan was right as rain after this event and we didn't have any other "tummy issues" for the rest of the trip!
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