WOW. We've had a tad bit of a stressful time since Friday. Ben had a fever at daycare of 101.2 so I had to take him home and decided to take him to the doctor. When we got there his fever had gone down and the doc told me it was just a cold. So we went home and fed him, got him in the bath and right when we got him out, he started throwing up. He threw up EVERYTHING we had fed him and then some and finally stopped. I tell you what, that is the most horrible thing to have to see- your baby pale and shivering because of throwing up and him not knowing what the heck is going on. He fell asleep in my arms and I was able to get him to take some liquid. He slept for about 2 hours and then woke up restless and shortly thereafter started throwing up again. This time he threw up the Pedialite and then starting vomiting mucus. He was lethargic and tired and crying and so we called the nurse on duty at our doc's office. By this time it was around 10pm. She asked me a series of quesitons and then had the doc call me, and incidently it was the one that had seen him earlier that day. He suggested we go to the ER at Scottish Rite. So we loaded the kid up and made our "fun" trip there at 10:30 at night. Luckily we didn't have to stay too long, he has an ear infection they hadn't caught and was a tad bit dehydrated. They gave him an anti-naseau pill and some Pedialite and he perked right up. We stayed for a little bit, then they let us go and by about 2am we were home and in bed. However, he has had a bit of a struggle wanting to take anything to drink. He finally started feeling better yesterday afternoon.
Ryan and I both came down with whatever it was he had on Monday. Luckily I already had the day off, but Ryan came home early to help me out with Ben because I was not doing so hot and about a half hour after he got there he got "it". We were pretty much out of commission the whole rest of the night. We have some of the bestest friends we could ask for, Jacob and Ashley came and hung out with Ben while we wallowed in our nastiness and took our turns in the bathroom. We are so grateful for them. We both stayed home Tuesday to recover. Ben still wasn't feel terrific and not drinking a lot, so for precautious measures we took him to the doc to make sure he was okay and he was.
Turns out just about the whole of Ben's daycare was sick with this thing... I personally am still recovering- it's taken all of us about 3 or 4 days to feel better. On top of that things at work are both stressful for the two of us and this was just not good timing. Oh well, such is life eh?