the first time

our sweet, precious little man wanted to have something to call his own and he went out of his way to assure that he would. earlier in the week he started getting sick - messy diapers and a fever. fast forward to yesterday and he introduced not keeping anything down, not even dilute. so off he and i went to the doctor after a four wait for our appointment time. by this time we was completely lethargic, dry heaving and moaning. i was so thankful for the 7 minute drive to the doctor instead of the hour and 40 minute one we had been making before the move. upon listening to what had been going on with him and seeing just how he lacked energy - good ole Dr. Burt - sent us over to the hospital for some hydration over night. this was the first time we have had a child admitted to the hospital due to sickness. when the time came to put the iv in - after being there for about 2 hours - he was done but didn't have any energy to object. after three nurses had tried to find a vein that would support the fluids we asked for an anesthesiologist to come and give finding a vein a try. 10 tries and a hour and a half later A VEIN was found that would sustain the influx of fluids - the crook of his left elbow. it was a rough night with a lot of moaning, thrashing and not sleeping. he even managed to get a substantial goose egg on his forehead from one of this thrashing episodes when his head made contact with the side rail of the bed. he finally slept from 5-8 a.m. and then again at 12:30-2. we got discharged since he didn't have a fever anymore and was able to take 6 ounces of fluid - a strained soup - which he kept down. he was so excited to see jason and to get to go home. i've never seen him grab his blanket as fast as he did today when i asked if he wanted to go bye-bye.

as a side note: the older two had the stomach flu the entire night at mom's house but at least jason was staying there and got to take on that challenge. i guess i am grateful that they all had the stomach flu at the same time - now if jason and i can just escape without getting it. probably won't happen but i can hope and pray!