Sick Day

Well, we spent the first few days of last week either in the ER (I know, not new for us)or the Dr. office. Abby started having really bad stomach cramps in the middle of the night on Sunday. She woke us up atleast 3 times with crying and holding her stomach. Monday morning she was not any better so we took her to the Dr. he pushed on her tummy and said that it was probably a virus. She didn't have any other symptoms except nausea and the horrible stomach pains. We went home and I tried to ease her pain as much as possible, but they were getting worse. We ended up calling the Dr. that night and then realized that she had not gone potty since 9AM (over 12 hours ago). We got sent straight to the ER. After spending 4 hours there and still having 4 people in front of us, Abby finally had to go potty. She peed a ton (not literally) and then started taking fluids without pain and so we decided to go home. The Dr. called in the morning while I was taking Jillian to Sonshine School and asked how Abby was doing. Steve took the day off to catch up on sleep and to help out. He told the Dr. that she was doing better and taking fluids, no more worries about dehydration. He no sooner got off the phone and Abby threw up. We called the Dr. back and he said he wanted to see her again. She kept saying that her pain was more on the right side. That got us sent to the lab for a blood draw to rule out appendicitis. It turned out that she was still dehydrated, but her blood count was OK (yea...no surgery!). He called in some anti-nausea meds for us to give her and try to get some fluids in her. He said he would call back in 1 hour and if she was not doing better we had to come back for IV fluids. Luckily she started drinking and the meds helped.
I was so far behind on work that I spent the rest of the week catching up, but I'm glad that my baby didn't have to have surgery. Abby was excited that she got 2 new teddy bears. One from the ER and one from the lab people. Let's just say that if they never have to stick a needle in my child's arm again, it will be too soon!