Sick Week

This is another one that I wrote and then didn't post right away. This happened the week of the 12th. So it was a crappy week. Hubby is out of town, training for work, so that isn't fun. And then early Tuesday morning (around 3:30am) I get woken up by Liam freaking out, I go in his room and he is telling me "diaper, diaper" and then I see a big brown spot on his pillow. Now he is wear footie pajamas so a blowout is basically impossible, he then starts throwing up in front of me. Awesome. I go turn on the light and see he threw up all over the crib and himself. I put him on the changing table and he throws up again, poor boy, luckily I had a wipe out and was able to catch it. He just laid on my stomach on the changing table while I cleaned up his crib. After I cleaned him up, he asked for milk so I gave him some and then he went back to sleep.

I decided to stay home so I went back to bed but had to get up several times because Liam kept waking up and I didn't want him to throw up in his crib again. He woke up around 8 for good. You could tell he wasn't feeling good, normally when he is sick he acts normal, he is just coughing or sneezing during it, this was different. He just sat with me and cuddled, so sad.

I had planned on helping my mom after I got off work so we decided that we would just head over right before Liam's nap and put him down over there (they have a playpen in their guest room set up for him to sleep in). As I was getting ready to shower, I hear him cry and he has thrown up again, this time on my floor. I quickly strip him and put him in the already on shower, then go and clean up the mess. 5 minutes later I head to the shower and he is standing in the exact spot I put him in.

We go over to my parent's house late and put him down for his nap. He sleeps decent (2 and a half hours) and is acting mostly normal again. Playing and he is drinking a little. He takes a second nap but is acting like he feels better and hasn't thrown up again. So I put him down for the night, planning on going to work and sending him over to my SIL's like normal.

4 hours into my shift at work I get an email from my roommate saying that Liam threw up on the way to my SIL's. Well crap. Then I get an email from husband saying his sister is trying to get ahold of me because our kid is throwing up and I might have to get work off. I check my phone and sure enough I have a text from my SIL saying he has thrown up 3 times and that I need to come get him. So I get off work and go get him. He falls asleep in the car on the way home so I let him sleep.

I manage to nap while he does and when he wakes up we head back over to my parent's house (we were working on a project). Liam is acting very lethargic, and basically just laying on the couch watching TV. He mostly refuses to drink, except for small sips ever once in awhile and won't eat at all. In the late afternoon he naps again. Since he has been showing signs of dehydration I decide to call his doctor, they tell me to bring him into the night clinic at 6.

So off to the doctor we go. We end up waiting almost an hour and in that time Liam decided to drink an entire sippy cup. So by the time we saw the doctor he was basically acting normal again. The doctor said if she had seen him an hour she most likely would have checked him in but it is wonderful what 8 oz of liquid can do for a kid.

 

She said to bring him back in if he starts showing those signs again, great. While we were sitting there waiting, I started feeling crappy. I tried ignoring but realized that I must have whatever Liam has. Once we get back to my parents place, I too throw up so my mom insists on having Liam spend the night at their place since she was going to watch him while I was at work anyways. I get some supplies for Liam and set up the monitor and go home and go to sleep with pills to help me make it through my work day tomorrow.

My mom texted me at 5ish saying that Liam is doing better, he was drinking and had some toast and was keeping it down and they were just chilling watching Curious George. That was fine except he was up really early which I felt bad about for my parents. Apparently every time he woke up throughout the night one of them went in there to make sure he hadn't thrown up or anything again, so they had a crappy night but they wanted me to sleep so it was nice for me.

 

My mom had me pick him up at about 4PM, so that I could nap for a bit after work. Liam had done great, he was eating and drinking and basically back to normal. So that was our few days of crappy sickness. We survived thanks to my parents helping out so much.

This was Liam's first time being really sick and acting it. Normally when he has a cold he just is sneezing or coughing while doing his normal thing, I've never had him just laying around not wanting to do anything like an actually sick kid. I felt so bad for him but since then he has felt so much better, thank goodness.