Well we must be coming up to a long weekend because someone in our household is sick!!!! The winner this time (and most times it seems) is Miriam. Yesterday morning her baby-sitter called me at work. She was “concerned” because M was not playing with the other kids like normal and kept saying her tummy was hurting her. No fever or any other symptoms. So her panicky Mommy calls the Dr. (on the day the Dr. closes at noon) and gets her squeezed into an 11:30 appointment. The thoughts going through my mind are appendicitis or obstructed bowl a simple stomach bug was the furthest thing from my mind. And to make matters worse (and me feel worse) yesterday was my employers last day in the office until June 9, so I couldn’t just leave and take M to the doctor. Ryan had to!
The doctor’s diagnosis was a stomach virus. She said two were going around, the first is a week or so of runny diapers and no appetite. The second one is nasty, fever, the runs and of course lots of puke! Great. So all day yesterday I kept thinking we were going to get lucky and have #1. Nope. M woke up from her nap (around 5:30) with a little fever. She did want dinner. And around 1:30 this morning she woke us up because her dinner revisited her oh and she was running a nice big fever.
A stomach bug and fever is a really bad combo. First throwing up or diarrhea or a fever alone make you susceptible to dehydration but added together make it really easy to occur. Luckily she didn’t throw up again last night and had a nice wet diaper this morning.
My mom is watching her this morning while I wrap up a few loose ends here at work (so I don’t have to really work until JUNE 9!!!!!) I left around 9:30 and she had held her pedialyte down and about ½ a banana. So keep your fingers crossed we are on the mend (and that Mommy, Daddy and no one else we have had contact with lately get it!)
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