Tuesday, February 24, 2009

great blessings

well our life has been very crazy these past few days! Paige has been very sick but is now getting better! On Wednesday she started to have diarrhea really bad and so we got her some Gatorade! (it's a lot cheaper than pedialyte) ! At about 2:00 on Thursday morning she threw up all over me! and then she threw up again later that day and then i could'nt get her to eat very well after that so we called the doctors office and were able to get an appointment for friday luckily ( our doctor is always booked it's very hard to get an appointment so soon)! Well thursday later that day she started coughing also and we had heard on the news that rsv had spiked here so we were really glad that we had an appointment! On friday i couldn't get her to eat anything! We went to her appointment and she weighed in at 13.8 pounds that is almost a whole pound! That was not good at all and she also has an ear infection! the doctor told us to give her pedialyte instead of the gatorade because with her throwing up the pedialyte would help her better and to just give her that for the next twenty four hours! then after that we could give her bananas and toast and other things like that that would help with the diarrhea! He said that her cough just sounded like a cold right now but he did the rsv test anyways! He said to go home a they would call with the results! Well when we got home the doctors office had already called, they said that paige had tested positive for rsv but since she wasn't weazing to just bring her in for a followup appointment on monday! He also wanted to get a weight check on her on monday also! we just followed doctors orders! On Saturday my parents came over and my dad helped brett to give her a blessing! On monday we were not as lucky to get an appointment but we were able to go in for walkins after 5 and so we didn't get in to see the doctor until after six but it was okay because we were ready to wait! In the waiting room i think i counted about six babies it was just so crazy i felt so bad for these sick little babies that couldn't even tell anyone how they were feeling! there was one baby who just sound so awful you could hear him weazing throuout the whole waiting room! It very sad because since they were all walkin appointments you knew that all these little babies were sick! It was just so sad to see so many little babies and they were little! paige was the oldest at 10 months! When they weighed her she was back up to 14 pounds i was just so relived that she had gained some weight! and for the rsv he said that all we can do right now is to watch it and make sure that it doesn't get worse, if it gets worse then we will have to give her the medicine treaments through the nebulizer, but right now all we can do is treat it like a cold and use a humidifier! We don't have a humidifier though so he gave us some saline stuff to put in the nebulizer and! I am just so glad that the rsv is not worse and that she is already showing improvements it is just such an amazing blessing! I know that this is such a blessing for our family and we are all so grateful! i hope that the other family's in that waiting room yesterday can be as blessed as we have been!

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