Poor, Sick James

I alluded to the fact that we’d had some sick kiddos in the last post. It all started with Leah having a bad cold. She got sent home from school on Monday and then ended up staying home Tuesday, Wednesday with Nana Jana, and then Thursday. That Friday Leah went back to school, and Amelie came down with a stomach bug, and then by the following Monday morning, James had drunk after her (why??) and came down with the most terrible, awful stomach bug in the history of stomach bugs. He was out all week from school Monday through Friday! (That was 8 out of the last 10 weekdays with a kid out of school!)

From Monday:

By day 3 we were getting worried. Doesn’t he just look terrible? Here we are in the waiting room (shortly after this, he leaned over and fell asleep on the chair):

He was fairly dehydrated and mighty uncooperative at urgent care, so they ended up sending us on over to the hospital. After he spit his medicine out, the nurse (one of my former Columbia College students) went to get the doctor, and when she came back in the room, he was lying on the floor trying to nap.

The folks at Women's and Children's were wonderful, and with the help of some Zofran, he was able to play games on a tablet and drink an apple juice, an orange juice, and a gatorade, so they let us come home.

I was the one home with him on Friday, and he was still resting a lot:

He was feeling better by the weekend, but we missed church for the second week in a row. He went back to school on Monday, but by that time, Sam was sick and my back was out. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday. I'm hoping we'll finally all be well at the same time and can enjoy the weekend and the nice weather.