Fever and shit...

Blakely is sick.  We have been swimming in shit for the past four days.  Fever and shit actually.


It all started when she woke up on Sunday morning and I thought she was way hot.  Took her temp (rectally) and it was 102.  Not cool.  We had Lonnie's family down for the holiday weekend so this was not really great timing.  We gave her Tyl.enol and Ad.vil and her fever got better.  But then the diarrhea started.  Like seriously 10-12 times a day.  Although today it has pretty much been every hour.  


She was so miserable all day Sunday.  I stayed inside with her and we cuddled and slept all day long.  On Sunday evening her temp was 103.9 and I noticed she had blood in her diarrhea.  The crazy mommy freak out was on at that point.  We gave her more meds and put her in a bath to help cool her off.  Her temp got better and we put her down for the night.  We decided if she wasn't any better in the morning then we would call the doctor.  Why does this always happen on holiday weekends?!?!?!


On Monday morning she seemed a little better...no fever and no diarrhea.  I had checked on her every hour during the night to make sure her temp didn't go back up.  I thought maybe she just had a little tummy bug.  Her fever stayed down the first half of the day although she kept having diarhea (sometimes with a little blood).  Her fever spiked in the afternoon and she had quite a bit more blood in her diaper.  I decided to call the dr.  Well they use a nurse hotline through Arkan.sas Chil.drens Hosp.ital.  She asked me a bazillion questions.  Finally she told me that they go by a protocol and that it was saying that we needed to go to the emergency room because she had more than 8 poops in an hour and more than 3 were bloody.  By this time it was 5 pm on MEMORIAL DAY.  Are you kidding me??  I thought they were going to say something along the lines of "take her to the pediatrician first thing in the morning".  The ER sounded like a horrible idea to me.  We would have to wait for a good 8-9 hours....maybe more since it was a holiday.  They were going to jab and poke her and she would be traumatized.  AND AND AND there wouldn't even be a pediatrician there...so it would be just an ER dr taking care of her.  Not ok with me.  So we decided to watch her and keep her temp down and take her in the next day.  Small sidenote.  The only reason I felt ok with this is because Lonnie did.  I always defer medical decisions to him and if he thought we needed to go to the ER you bet your ass we would have been there in a second.  I trust my husband to make medical decisions more than I do most ER doctors.  So that is why we waited...just a little disclaimer :)


We took her to the doctor yesterday even though she seemed to be feeling better.  She would at least smile and play.  Her temp was about 102 but would go down with meds.  She was still a pooping machine but the blood was minimal.  The weird part about all of this is that she hasn't been throwing up.  She has still been eating just fine.  Not as great as she normally does but eating plenty.  They wanted a stool sample so I took two diapers with us.  He is thinking it is probably something viral and but they wanted to test for E.Co.li and Salmon.ella and a few other things.  Most of which you don't treat, you just let it run its course.  


I got a message this morning telling me that they couldn't get a sample out of those diapers.  I called the lab tech back and she told me that the diapers soak it all up and they can't get it out of the diapers.  SOOOOOO, she suggested putting Sar.an Wr.ap between the diaper and Blakely and "catching the poop".  Yeah, how easy does that sound to y'all???  Her poop is like green water.  Not very "catchable".  I really can't describe to you my morning of trying to do this.  I took one sample up there and she didn't think she could get enough out of it.  So I tried again and FINALLY got a puddle.  I was so damn happy that was over with and so was Blakely.  I'm certain that Sar.an Wr.apped ass is not very comfortable. 


Now we wait to see what they find.  She obviously doesn't feel good today either.  She grunts and groans to poop for about 10 minutes and doesn't get much relief when she does go.  Her temp has been ok today but not normal.  She hasn't let me put her down all day.  She SCREAMS when I do.  So we have just been snuggling all day long.  She is in the jumparoo right now and I have about a minute and a half left before she loses it.  


On top of all of this poop....my washing machine broke.  Which wouldn't be that huge of a deal except that I use CLOTH DIAPERS.  Yeah....we've switched to disposables for now.  Also, my brother in law's law office burned to the ground on Sunday as well.  They were here for the weekend and he got the call.  He had to leave early to go deal with that.  Very sad stuff.  AND THEN, we've had drama with the shaved ice stand.  We were in it with another couple and we all had specific jobs for the stand.  The other woman was an accountant so she was dealing with the money, payroll, and staffing.  Well she just up and decided to QUIT...not like "oh I don't want to do this anymore, here is all of my information" quitting but more like "I quit, don't call me, don't text me, I'm going to make this as hard on you as possible, GO AWAY" quitting.  We haven't spoken to her since and I don't plan on ever speaking to her.  I plan to blog about this situation in detail when I get time to give me some closure with her.  Because, honestly, I want to punch her in her throat right about now.  


Ok the baby has shut down.  I wrote all of this in about ten minutes so I hope it makes sense!