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When It Rains, It Pours February 27, 2009

Adam continued to do poorly yesterday. He was still vomiting some and could do nothing but sleep. I called the nurse at Adam’s doctor’s office yesterday morning. She talked to Adam’s ped who said to take him to the ER, so we headed off to the Children’s Hospital around noon. We, of course, had to wait forever, but we finally got into a room. That’s when things went from bad to worse.

I started feeling really faint and knew that I was close to passing out. I avoiding actually passing out by laying down on the bed with Adam, but a little bit later I threw up everywhere. I felt horrible.

That’s when I had a nurse call Dan who high tailed it to the hospital. By the time he got there I was doing even worse, so I was sent to the neighboring hospital’s ER while Dan stayed with Adam.

I got bloodwork done, and was given IV fluids, Zofran, and a GI cocktail. Adam had bloodwork done, too, which showed his electrolyte levels were really low. They didn’t give him an IV since he wasn’t super dehydrated (plus, they had a hard enough time just getting blood from a vein with him.) They tried to give him some pedialyte even though the chance of him reacting to it were pretty good, but he wouldn’t really drink it.

So, Dan and Adam came and met me, and then we all went home. I think we got back around 9:15. It was a long day, to say the least.

There’s an even more difficult part to all of this. Because of the meds I was given as well as both Adam’s and my conditions, I am now pumping and dumping while we give Adam unflavored Elecare, the one elemental formula we hadn’t tried with him. My supply is virtually non existant anyway due to how bad this virus is.

Last night was really hard. Dan got up with Adam each time, because there’s no way I could do it. Adam got very upset that he couldn’t nurse. Dan did manage to get him to drink a little bit of Elecare overnight and did get him back to sleep each time.

Adam’s done pretty well getting some more Elecare down this morning. Now we just have to cross our fingers and pray he doesn’t react to it. It’s heartbreaking to have it all play out this way, but there’s no way I can stay on my diet right now, and I don’t have the energy or supply to breastfeed him anyway. I had a good long cry about the whole situation this morning. It really wasn’t suppose to happen this way.

I’m sure Dan will come down with it soon, so I’m hoping I’ll feel better enough by that point to be able to take care of Adam. Adam’s doing a little better this morning, but he’s definitely still feeling the effects of it. He just fell asleep laying up against me on the couch a few minutes ago.

So, we’re supposed to fly out on Monday. I think Adam and I will be well enough by then to make the trip, but there’s no telling about Dan. It all depends on when he comes down with it. He may end up having to fly out a day or two later. We’ll just have to see.

I guess saying, “this sucks” is a vast understatement at this point. We’ve definitely had better days. I just hope we all make it to the other side in one piece.

• Posted in : our main man
• Author : amanda

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