Connor's been sick

Thursday -- This morning when he woke up, he was acting fine but when we left to go drop him off at Nana's house, he pointed to his tummy, said, "Belly hurt, Mommy." But I dropped him off, said to give him motrin and see how he did. I always call my Mom while I'm working around lunch time to see how he's doing. She said he was doing fine. And she never calls my cellphone unless it's an emergency or she's worried about him, and she's never had to call. So when my phone rang during my last visit of the day, I let it go to voicemail then checked on my way out to the car to hear her say that he woke up from nap early, moaning and when she went to pick him up, he was burning up HOT! She took his temp and it was 103 under his arm, which makes it actually 104!! My poor baby!!!! I rushed right there, and he was punky... his eyes droopy, still laying on my Mom's chair with her moaning. He wanted me. I rocked him, gave him Tylenol.. and he was still burning up! But he started to want to get up to play, walk around.. so I knew he was starting to feel better. He kept saying different things hurt like his legs, belly, head, arms... I bet he was aching.. like body aches from feeling under the weather. He couldn't comfortable while I was rocking him, was fidgeting & moaning. But he was still drinking & had wet diapers, although was breathing funny... like moaning when he breathed out, but I listened to his lungs and they were clear. . . did the full thing, he wasn't breathing fast or slow, no retractions. I just held him & cuddled him which is what he wanted.. until he was feeling a bit better. Please pray this passes, if it's a stomach bug or what?! But I took his blankies out of the crib because he loves to cover up, but being that he had a 104 temp... no way... I feel bad and I just want to take this all away, make him feel better....

Here's when I knew he was okay: he was standing in front of the fridge, shakin' his booty to the tunes of his Leapfrog Fridge Farm. I was just standing there watching him, trying not to laugh...

Friday morning -- We were up all night last night. Poor baby.. had diarrhea, liquid every 2-3 hours, moaning. Still with the fever overnight, I was alternating Tylenol & Motrin. He was just miserable and I didn't sleep much because I was sitting at the end of the couch watching him breathe. He slept on the couch most of the night, some of the night in my bed with me.

He & I both slept in until like 10:15 this morning, he woke up much better, no fever, said, "Eat Be-kfast." and has been smiling & laugh, back to his normal self! YAY!!! Although he didn't eat anything, but has still been drinking here & there. If he doesn't improve by this afternoon, I'll be getting him into the doctor. And so far no more diarrhea since like 5 this morning. Thanks for the prayer, girls! I love you all!!! *HUGS* Ya know... right after I posted, stinky stinky... more liquid poopies!!!

Friday, mid morning -- I called his Ped office, they were double booked all day today so I took him to ER. They did a XR of his abdomen, came back with just gas in his bowels & irritation from the diarrhea.. likely gastritis. So she put him on clear liquids for 2 days then follow up with his Ped on Monday. He's lively today, laughing & playing... hasn't had an diarrhea since before we left for ER this morning. They also gave me containers to collect stool specimens in. So he's on the mend, no fever anymore. Praying he gets past this yucky thing he has & feels better soon!

Saturday morning -- He's doing much better, although.. poor thing.. wants to eat & can only have clear liquids. He's been eating jell-o & popsicles (Yum!), drinking fluids... I try not to eat in front of him because he always wants bites of mine. :( No more diarrhea since last night before bedtime! YAY! Also, he's has 2 big wet diapers, one in the middle of the night, the other this morning.. WooHoooo!! No fever since yesterday morning! I attempted to collect the stool samples, but they wanted me to use a U-bag (urine bag) that had a sticky edge that you stick over their "area".. so they wanted me to put it over his butt and collect clean specimens that way... well I put it on him and he screamed bloody murder the entire time, I felt horrible!! But he left it on, then came the BIG POOP and it was everywhere... that is, everywhere except in that bag. The entire bag came right off with all the poop, so there was no way of collecting any. So this attempt to use this bag is a bust... and now he has no more poopies... so.. whatever... I understand it needs to be collected but ya know... I'm not willing to torture my child to put this horribly painful U-bag on his bottom when it's already red & very tender from liquid poopies for over 24 hrs. :(

Today we're going out to a back to school bash at a playground, and then also doing some back to school shopping for his cousins, Gavin & Ashleigh. So we have a busy day, but I'm holding off on bringing him into sunday school tomorrow, it's unlikely that the diarrhea will come back but ya never know, so I don't want to go sharin' the wealth of this bug he may have had.