Sick Pup Report

Well, we had a good run, Elderberry.  Almost two full winters with nary even a cold, thanks to your sweet help.

And then this weekend hit. :(  Anna came home from school Thursday mentioning a tummyache at lunch.  I heard it but didn't worry too much.  I hear many little things in the course of Anna's daily, "Reasons it was a Good/Bad Day" rundown.  But within about 30 minutes, she comes and says she feels like she is going to throw up.  We were at a friend's house at the time so I grabbed her and BOLTED for home.  Sure enough, there was a slight fever ... but nothing else for hours.  Just enough hours for Josh and I to leave the kids with our favorite sitter (Anna grounded to the couch of course) and go complete another night of training for Jonah's Journey.  We got home that night at 9:15 just in time for the marathon of throw-up to begin.  As my sister the nurse predicted ... it lasted about 12 hours.  Just for fun, here's my list of reasons it was a bad 12 hours - Throw up on the floor, throw up in the sink, throw up on the floor again, several times in the potty, always in her hair and just for perks, once in the car. :}  Throw in a couple changes of clothes for diarrhea and you have a sick, sick pup, whose fever continued to rise through it all.  I like to let a fever do its job of killing the germ, but when she got to 100.7, I relented and got some Motrin in her. 

Luckily, last night (Friday night) was uneventful with the girl only sleeping fitfully because she was so thirsty and kept getting up for a sip of water.  Today, Saturday, she is episode free, but her fever is still up at 100.  So we are staying quarantined for another day or two at least.  As a homebody, I don't mind hunkering down and chillin' out at home.  Poor Noah is another story. He is getting antsy and misses his Daddy (who is out of town this weekend) and it doesn't help that he lost his Wii privileges earlier this week.  Still, Noah has been a really patient and good sport - playing quietly in his room for hours when Anna needs to nap, bringing her crackers and refilling her drink in the morning before I got up, and even sharing the iPad with her and letting her pick the shows they watch. :} Bless his heart - I think I might relent and let him play Wii tomorrow after all.

So we had to cancel Anna's paint class yesterday, which broke her heart because she was going with her favorite school friend, Luci.  We also had to cancel on some friends from church we were gonna go watch the Super Bowl with.  And we will miss church, too, of course.  We'll stay home and I will rub my cold hands on Anna's hot belly and back because it makes her feel better and, heck, it warms me up.  Ha!  Anna says she wants to decorate her Valentines Box for school if she feels better tonight, so I got that bad boy wrapped and ready for action.  Hoping our sick pup is back in working order by Monday so she doesn't have to miss another day of school or gymnastics.

For the record, I will still swear by your benefits, Elderberry.  One bad weekend doesn't undo two rockin' winters of perfect health when all the world around us was dying from every germ under the sun. :} This was bound to happen.  She IS in a kindergarten classroom, after all, where the boys do all manner of nasty booger things in plain sight.