Sleepless Nights...Starting with the E.R.

An interesting beginning to the long Memorial Day weekend... Thursday evening began with some serious puking coming from our little boy. We're talking the nasty, painful to get up, yellow acidy, yukky stuff. Carter didn't seem to mind the dry heaves, but mommy was quite concerned...

After some repeat performances and an inability to keep any food down, we ended up at the pediatric E.R. at UNMH around 9PM. Got Carter puffed back up with some IV fluids and we headed up to the pediatric ward for diagnosis around 1AM.

Well, two days later (including some worrisome sleepless nights), we're a little closer to an answer: it's an "infection." Hrmm... No fever, no other symptoms, sure, we'll settle for that diagnosis.

And, as of Saturday lunchtime, Carter is keeping down his food, not showing off his puking abilities, but IS showing off his flirting abilities (he REALLY smiles for the ladies...all of them...yes, we've grounded him). He's still chipper and hasn't lost much energy after all he's gone through (blood tests, zillions of vitals checks, ultrasounds, urine tests, etc.). The doctors (a team of 4 today) are assessing his progress and will hopefully discharge him tonight. We're waiting on the determination of the bacteria type that caused the infection...

In the meantime, Matt and I are going to jot down a big "two" in the sleepless nights log...think there's enough paper in this world to actually log the number of nights we'll be up worrying throughout his life? Yeah, I don't think so either...

I'll end with a photo of Carter from early May with his "you've got to be kidding me" look:


Here's to good health and speedy recoveries to all (and to an end to these annual late-May hospital stays by our family members!!)!

~kerrie

PS Still can't figure out WHERE he picked up his infection, as none of the other kids at his daycare are/were/might be getting sick! Oh well, the mysteries we experience in our lives help keep us on our toes, no?