not where i want to be

My poor baby! This week has not been a good week for being healthy for our family and even worse for Carter. It started on Monday. Carter started vomiting and later diarrhea. On Tuesday, the diarrhea continued and he stopped eating but he was at least drinking. The same was true for Wednesday except that he wouldn't drink as much and he started vomiting again. I called the doctor in a panic and he sent us to the Emergency Room. I was really scared because Kameron was 3 hours away at a clinic in Cleveland doing a rotation and I couldn't get a hold of him and I wasn't sure what to expect. We waited a long time in the ER waiting room and after getting called back, the doctor decided to have some blood work done and an IV of fluids hooked up. 

Carter was not a fan of his IV.

 Especially since he couldn't bend his arm.

They had to wrap a splint on his arm to prevent him from moving it.

 Pointing to his "owie."

 The tests they did showed that Carter was severely dehydrated and the Doctor decided to have him stay overnight. Kam unfortunately couldn't come home from his rotation but my best friend, Janey, came and saved me by bringing me some things to eat and took Braden home with her to stay overnight. Braden was really excited for his very first Sleepover! 

Carter and I waited some more until we were finally taken up to a room. On our way to the room Carter's IV came out and we then had to wait for the Doctor to give the order to put it back in. While we waited, his nurse helped Carter find some toys to play wtih. He thought it was pretty great to have something to do.

Later that night, almost midnight, the nurse was finally able to come redo his IV. She had a really hard time finding a vein so she had to call someone from the NICU to help. After 2 sticks and lots of poking and prodding they decided to wait until the morning to try again and encourage me to push fluids orally instead. He did drink some but because it was so late he crashed and fell asleep.

The next morning Carter drank really well and he even asked for something to eat so they brought him some breakfast. He ate some of it; only a banana and some toast. When the doctor came in to see how he was doing and saw that he was eating and drinking she decided to not put in the IV. She also said that if he took in enough and kept it down that we could go home.

While we waited to see how well he would eat and drink Carter and I took several walks around the Pediatric floor, found more toys to play with and snuggled a lot. Waiting was sometimes hard...

and sometimes not too bad.

At about 3:30 in the afternoon, we finally got the okay and were discharged. We were both so glad to be going home.