Thursday, September 17, 2009

my sick Evie girl

Well yesterday was supposed to be an exciting day, Sara was coming in town! Sara was one of my roommates all through college and i haven't seen her in forever. She lives way over in East Tennessee but she will be coming to Memphis some for work so we will get to see her more.
Anyway, she came over to my parents last night and we headed to dinner with the girls and my mom. While we were there Evie starts throwing up over and over and gets real pale and lethargic so of course i freak out.
Sara and my mom stayed took Ramsey home and i ran over to urgent care. The whole time in the car she is dry heaving and gagging and crying, pitiful! We get there and it was coming from everywhere if you know what i mean, haha TMI
They took her temp and it was 100 so not very high, which was a relief. Then they did her blood pressure and pulse and it was way to fast and high for their liking.
They decided she was dehydrated, she certainly had nothing left in her. Then they tried to do some blood work but Evies lines were "flat"( i might be saying that wrong, but i think that is what they were saying) and they couldn't get anything or get an IV in her either to give her fluids. Several nurses tried and they tried both feet, both hands and her arm fold. Finally got some blood but never got it to where they could give her an IV. I have never heard Evie cry so hard, I thought i was going to loose it! She is all bruised up today :( Her heart rate stayed up but she eventually just fell asleep from pure exhaustion i think.
My sister in law Amber got there to keep us company ( jonathan was out of town)
In the meantime her blood work came back normal, another relief. They decided to try Pedialyte. She hated it and what she did drink she would spit right back out, It was grape flavored, yuck.
Her heart rate went down to normal after about 2 hrs of being there and since her blood work was normal and she hadn't thrown up in a few hours, they decided to let us go home. The doctor give us a prescription for Zofran and told us to get some unflavored pedialyte and water it down or use a syringe to give it to her. Amber and i ran to Walgreens and while i waited for the zofran, she tried to give her the pedialyte and she would wine and push the bottle out every time, it was funny, we had to find humor at this point!
We finally made it to my parents around 11:00 or so and i used the syringe and that worked, thank goodness. She fell asleep and my mom slept on the couch in their room, sweet Nana! My mom woke her up once to give her some more and she slept until about 8. We started giving her some formula again at lunch because she was able to keep the pedialyte down. We started with 2 ozs and worked our way up to her normal 6-7 before she went to bed. So far so good. She was laughing and being normal tonight so i guess it was just a 24 hr bug or something. Who knows! Lets hope Ramsey doesn't get it but if she does we know what to do this time and we have all the goods:) My first "new" mom freak out. I am sure there are more to come!
To sweet Sayra...i cant wait until you come in town again hopefully it wont be so dramatic!! loveyou:)
oh and to all my readers sorry for the crazy amount of times i wrote the word pedialyte....

2 comments:

  1. oh my gosh! I am glad she is ok- that is so scary! It sounds like you handled it like a pro though- good job! So excited for you and Jonathan's trip to New York- what a great present.

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  2. Thanks mommy for taking such good care of me!
    Love Evie

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