The Past Three Days

The past three days have been spent taking care of our very sick little girl. :(  Poor Isabelle came down with a terrible bug of some sort Friday morning.  Isabelle and I went up to visit my dad (who is now home from the hospital) and my mom on Friday morning . She was her normal, happy, running around, smiling self.  Then out of the blue around 11:30 she threw up.  And I mean threw up a TON!  She had not ate anything even since breakfast.  Needless to say I quickly got her in the car to head home.  Where she threw up again.  Then once back home it continued on and off until 11pm Friday night.  We were an hour away from taking her to the ER when it stopped.....thank goodness.  Kevin and I spent literally the entire night and morning giving her small doses of pedialyte every 20 minutes. 

Saturday she woke up and appeared to be somewhat better.  She had a little more energy and spent the whole day at home recovering.  She had more pedialyte, a little water, a half a banana, some applesauce, and a couple of bites of crackers all day.  We thought she was on the mend. She fell asleep for the night at 6:45.  Around 3:45am she woke up throwing up all over her bed.  She threw up two more times in addition to that this morning.  I made another call to the doctor who instructed me to start all over with the small doses of pedialyte and if she went 6-8 hours with no throwing up to start the bland foods again.  Otherwise we were told to take her to the emergency room.  

Thankfully she has not thrown up since 6:15 am so around noon she ate an entire piece of toast and has been sipping more pedialyte all day.  She took a short 45 minute nap in her bed, then went right downstairs and is currently napping again on the couch.  We pray that she is finally getting over whatever is causing this.  It is so sad to see her so weak and fatigued.  We love her more then anything.  Please say a prayer that she is finally on the path to getting back to herself and done with whatever it was that made her so sick. 

Isabelle Friday morning playing and having fun at my parents before it all started.....

We have been encouraging her to rest and lay down so today she wanted to take all her stuffed animals from the basement up to her bed today and watch a movie on the portable DVD player. 

She got a quick little burst of energy and decided to pull every single book off her bookshelf.  Of course she helped put them all back.  Even sick, she still likes to pick up!

During nap time.  Unfortunately I have washed and changed her bedding numerous times so until she is over this she is sleeping on an old sheet and towels. :(

Simba has been logging lots of sleeping hours too these past few days! (He sleeps for 6-7 hour stretches in our towel closet)

Sleeping on the couch in the basement.

We love you so much Isabelle Ann.  If mommy and daddy could take your sickness from you and have it ourselves we would in a heartbeat.  We pray you are all healthy and back to yourself soon.