Hunter's 1st ER visit...

I have never had a stomach virus nor have I had a whole family sick with it.  Last Thursday, Sean picked Hunter up from daycare and they said he hadn't really eaten anything all day and he threw up right before Sean picked him up and on the way home from daycare he was throwing up in the car.  Sean called me at work and I of course, immediately called his pediatrician's office.  I set up an appointment for him to be seen at 7 pm that night (they have a night service available for sick kids).  While we waited to be seen by the doctor, he threw up 3 times and was so miserable.  The doctor checked him out and told me that he had a ear infection that the reason for the vomitting could be related or unrelated to the ear infection.  I knew it had to be unrelated because he has never thrown up like this from all the ear infections that he has had.  So she told me to just keep liquids in him and he should be good in a few days.  Yeah right.  That Sunday Sean and I took him to the ER.  From Thursday to Sunday he didn't eat a thing, not that he needed to because liquids are more important because of dehydration but he would try and drink water and I would try to take a syringe to try and get him to take some Pedialyte and then soon after would not be able to keep it in.  The water just went right through him and the diarrhea  was so bad that I thought it developed a rash on his bottom but later found out that was an allergic reaction to his ear infection medication.  I had to throw in the towel because enough was enough, I was really starting to get worried and how many more days was I going to see my little guy so miserable?  When we brought him to the ER, fortunately, the doctors said that he wasn't severely dehydrated but knew that he needed some fluids.  They didn't give him an IV because they wanted to see if he would drink this fluid first that they described to me like "sugar water" but with electrolytes (I think it was called Enfamil Ephalyte). I told them "good luck with that" but for some reason he sucked it all down with a straw. I guess that was the trick.  Ha! Then I had described to them that the liquid would not hold well and it would be coming out one of his two ends and they said that would be okay because they would like to test it.  Sure enough it came out in his stool about 5 minutes later and found that he was positive for the Rotovirus and  because of the allergy to the medication was another reason for his  out of control diarrhea. They told me that the Rotovirus was viral and that there really isn't anything that they can do to clear it up but to just let it run its course.  Also, it can last up to 10 days! They said that most likely he got it from daycare because at that time Sean nor I were sick.  So that led me to my next question, why weren't Sean and I sick from Hunter being sick for those 4 days already?  The doctors warned us that it is contagious and it is just a matter of time.  They told us to just keep disinfecting like we had been and just see what happens.  We spoke to soon, the very next day, I got sick and had to have Sean come home from work to help take care of Hunter while I was miserable.  Then the next day was when Sean got sick.  Yep so we were all miserable with this virus until the end of last week.




This was the only picture I managed to snap while sitting in the triage of the hospital.  After they gave him the fluid he threw a fit and I knew why because he was hungry so they let him have a few crackers while we were there.  Poor baby.

I ended up going to see my OB because they called me to check and see how I was doing (I notified them as soon as I got sick).  They asked me to come in and found that I had lost 3 pounds and my doctor gave me some Ziflucan to take to help with the sickness so that I could eat.  Which helped tons later that day.  I was able to start eating normal again.  I did have a major scare when the doctor put the doppler on my belly to hear the baby's heart beat and he couldn't find it.  After about 15 minutes of trying, he told me that he needed for me to get an ultrasound at the hospital.  I was going bananas freaking out thinking that having this stomach virus for the past few days and not eating and being sick that it could've possibly done something to harm the baby.  Thank God that as soon as the ultrasound tech put the thing on my belly, he right away told me that I could breathe because he saw the heartbeat.  Up until that point, I had already prepared myself for the worst (waiting that 1.5 hours in agony) and was so happy to hear that everything was okay.  Fortunately enough, my dad was able to be there with me.  He came in town a few days for a visit.  Now for a tiny bit of top secret information....I did get curious and ask if he could tell the gender yet and at first he said a girl and then after doing a few measurements and the baby was flipping in all directions, it was pretty clear as day that it looks like we are having another boy!  I'm not going to say for sure yet because my official anatomy appointment isn't until the middle of April so I will try not to think that we are having a boy ..yet.  Even though, I think we are having a boy anyway but we will see.  Just a few more weeks.....



Waiting to see the doctor.  Who's the patient?