I'm freaking exhausted

Ryan was sick. Very sick. :( It started innocently enough as a cold, but he seems to have re-contracted that awful stomach flu that has been going around. On top of
that had got a pretty bad fever too. He started throwing up 9am Sunday
morning and that and diarrrhea got worse and worse. By the time 9pm rolled
around I got scared because he looked so bad.

I took him to the hospital and they gave him an IV and battery of blood tests
to make sure that he was ok. He started looking better after a while and the
spots that developed on his hands and feet disappeared. They told me to
contact my main dr (who I met today and absolutely love) but not much else.
They also lost his strep culture and didn't do a urine or blood culture which
apparently is a standard procedure but for some reason they didn't do it at the
hospital. We were there from 9pm until 5am.

Today I called the clinic (army hospital) and they were wonderful. Dr. Bodine
was worried because Ryan's white blood count was really really high according
to the results from the hospital. They re did the blood tests, sent a blood
culture (he wanted to rule out infection because of his high fever) and
attempted to take a urine sample. They catheterized him :(((( but got no urine
because when they were taking his temp earlier he emptied his bladder (and I
think mine and a few other people's judging by the amount that came out) all
over the table. Turns out that his white blood cell count is way down (in the
mildly above normal range) so I just have to watch out for fever and bring him
back if he still has one. He does :( even after a full dose of motrin its
101.5, but I'm going to give it another day and take him back Wed if the fever
doesn't subside.

The bad thing is that my poor little boy has been so sad. He's done nothing
but sleep for two days, been prodded and poked more then he has in his entire
life. His butt is so sore from the poopies that he is actually bleeding in one
spot even with liberal applications of diaper cream. He nursed twice today and
only kept down a tiny amount (he threw up the second nursing). Thankfully he
is keeping down pedialyte mixed with juice so a second dehydration doesn't seem
to be happening. On top
of it all it snowed today and I have a cold!! (pitiful aren't i?) The good
thing is that I met my son's pediatrician and think he is wonderful, love the
nurses there too. The doctor was very conservative on his treatment (asked me
if I wanted him to repeat the tests or wait it out and didn't administer
antibiotics needlessly...actually made a point to say he wanted evidence that
he had an infection before he did it because antibiotics would make his
digestive system worse and told me to go conservatively on the Motrin to avoid
a stomach reaction)


Thankfully he's feeling much better today. He's actually swatting at the keys as I try to type. He's got RAGING diaper rash from the diarrhea so every time he poops, he cries.

I just want us to be better in two weeks. I get to see MY HONEY!! First time in 9+ weeks