Tumbling and an Unpleasant Sleepover

Monday Devin was still not feeling very well, and throughout the day he just got worse and worse. He slept from about 9am to 1:30 when I had to wake him up I gave him some pedialyte which he drank and immediately threw back up. I checked his diaper which was dirty from diarrhea but there was no urine from what I could tell, so I called the pediatrician's office and talked to the nurse, told her what was going on and she suggested we head to Primary's right away...great just what I didn't want to hear. So I packed an activity bag for Liz called Tony to let him know what was going on, and he decided to meet us there. We got back to triage pretty fast, but had to wait for an ER room to open up for about an hour! Once we got back and seen by the dr it was clear he was dehydrated cause when he cried there were no tears. At this point we decided to have Tony take Elizabeth to her first tumbling class, while I stayed with Devin. Elizabeth LOVED her class(I had an inkling she might) Tony said she did pretty good too. She has a bit of a listening problem, and waiting her turn isn't exactly a strong point of hers, but that's part of the reason we're doing this for her, we want her to learn how to act in a "class" setting. Elizabeth gets super excited every time I ask her about tumbling and rambles on and on about running and flipping and walking like all kinds of animals, and how much fun it is. She's asked me since then if she can go everyday! Oh I wish she could! But sadly I had to inform her it's only on Mondays. Back at Primary Children's Devin and I waited in the ER to get an IV, to start him on some fluids, and do some blood work...this was so much harder to accomplish than I thought it would be. His nurse tried first. Two spots...neither worked, so she called the specialty IV team, they both tried twice to no avail...he was just so dehydrated the veins were just gone. So they put heat packs on his hands and his feet, and each side of his head...just in case, then the 2nd specialty team came and looked up and down him a couple time did some debating then went for one in his hand and finally got it...by this time Devin was beyond completely spent. His eyes were rolled back and he didn't move or make a peep when they put the IV in. This was a bad sign so they hooked him up to a bunch of monitors to make sure nothing stopped working, namely his heart and/or lungs. At this point I was in tears, and really worried about him. I just kept thinking I should have brought him in that morning when he threw up for the 2nd time around 9am, and it wouldn't have gotten this bad. He looked horrible. A white sale had nothing on him. His blood tests showed extreme dehydration and that his blood sugar was super low. They then came in and just started adding bags and syringes to his IV, he ended up with three bags and two syringes giving him everything he was so low on. He just lay there with his eyes rolled back...it was almost too much! But the fluids worked pretty fast and he "woke up" within about 45 minutes. They checked his blood sugar and such two more times as he still needed more after the first and second check, but by about 8pm his levels were back to normal. We got to our hospital room around then too. He kept down pedialyte all night so early Tuesday morning we gave him a couple ounces of formula which he kept down, yay! He kept down two more 2oz bottles so they let us go home late that morning, and told me to just bring him straight back to the RTU (Rapid Treatment Unit) if he shows signs of dehydration again. Tuesday night he also got his 2nd flu shot...poor beat up boy! I was hoping to get him up to drinking 3oz today, but when I tried this morning he threw up, so I've stuck to 2oz every hour or so while he's awake, as he's been sleeping alot! But he seems to be doing alright with it. His mouth is wet and he has some tears when he cries, and the best sight of all is the adorable pink in his cheeks! So I guess we'll just do it the hard way for a while.








I took these Tuesday, it's funny cause he went from looking miserable then he saw the orange light on the camera and smiled! I have him so well trained! Taking his pictures actually perked him up a bit as well!