How many posts start out like that for me!! Okay so first of all Monday:
Seth started FIRST GRADE!! So weird!
So this year he gets dropped off the bus the same time as everybody else so he gets off at the bus stop instead of the house. So I asked him if he wanted me to wait for him at he stop and he said he could do it by himself. Same with walking to the bus stop in the morning. So I told him I would watch him from the yard and he informed me that he didn't want me to. But lucky for me I am the MOM!! So I pulled out the mom card and told him I could walk him or watch him. He chose watch. So off he went. He had a blast and so far is LOVING 1st grade.
And moving on...
So I think it started Sunday that Riley just wasn't feeling good. She had been complaining that her stomach hurt for about 2 weeks. But come Monday she started throwing up.
So I took her in and she had lost a pound from her checkup a couple weeks ago. So that concerned me a touch since she only started at 32.4 pounds! So the dr. does a urine test and an x-ray and everything looks okay. So she assumes it is viral. My instructions were to not give her food and only give her pedialite for a day and see how she does. Well towards the end of the day I gave her a bite of a peach and up it came. I know stupid!! So Tuesday was more of the same, laying around totally limp. No food! And no going to the bathroom. So Wednesday she was still the same, couldn't eat anything. And she had only drunk one bottle of pedialite since monday morning, that is 1 liter. Not enough! So I take her back and she is now 29.7 pounds. Dehydrated. And still hurting tummy. So after talking to the dr. we have her admitted to the hospital for dehydration. She was soooooo sad! They of course had to give her an I.V. and then the dr. ordered blood work. Well she was dehydrated so she didn't have good veins to begin w/. and then to add that she apperatnly has my veins, which is no veins. It was so sad holding her while they did blood. She got poked so many times, in both hands and both elbow pits. Poor thing. And then the dr. wanted more blood!!
(this is just one arm. all other entry points look the same or worse and now she has bruises all over)
Well we got there at about 11:30 Wednesday and we got to leave at about the same time on Thursday. The poor thing was soooo hungry. She hadn't eaten since Sunday at breakfast. She had a few bites of food here and there on Sunday but not a meal. So by the time they were drawing blood again on Thursday morning she just looked at me and started crying and saying she was soooo hungry! Broke my heart.
But on the upside of things: we had a ton of fun spending time w/ just the two of us, they didn't care if I slept in her bed, so we shared a bed, she got tons of attention and toys and she is feeling much much better now!
(this was this morning in the sprinklers!)
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Whew what a week!
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OH! Poor Riley! It's so hard to see them in pain like that! I'm glad she's feeling better.
How sad for Riley. Did they ever figure out what was wrong with her? Must have been hard for you too. I hate when kids get sick. It's so stressful. I miss you!
How awful!! Having a kid in the hospital is NO vacation, however, it IS nice to be able to spend some alone time with that particular child. I remember being sad that Kai was in the hospital, but almost happy that I could give 100% of my attention to him and not worry about anything else in life for those few days.
I hope Riley is feeling better, poor kid. Seth is in first grade? I can't believe it! Where does the time go?
LOL about the mommy escort to the bus, I love it when kids think they're too big for their mommies.
That is pretty pitiful. Her face on the one pic is just sad. Glad she's better and back to her "wonderful" self... al though I'm sure that will come in time.
And LOVE Seth being a big boy.. it goes way too fast.
Poor Riley. That was so sad. I am happy she's feeling better and Seth is getting to be such a big boy. I got a good laugh about him not wanting you to walk him to the bus. How cute is that?!
I seriously cried. I'm so glad it's over.
How sad for Riley. I'm glad she's better. The kids prayed for her at night.
Yeah, can you believe you've got a first grader?! It's crazy.
I CANNOT believe little Seth is in the 1st grade!?!! What the heck!!!?? How did that happen?!
And poor Riley!! Getting blood drawn is the worst!! :(
That is sooooo sad!! I can't imagine that long w/out food, poor thing!! I feel for her in the veins department, I have no veins either and it sucks bad.
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