We are home, again . . .

Okay, I didn't want to jinx us by writing a post too early, but we came home from the hospital yesterday afternoon and Callie seems to be doing pretty well.  She has been eating well today and has only had one dirty diaper, which is great compared to the 15 to 20 she was having before we ended up in the hospital . . .

While we were at Cook Children's we saw their Gastro Intestinal doctors and they conferred that Callie had a stomach virus.  They put her on Zantac, an acid reflux medication, while we were in the hospital and for a week at home, and it already seems to be helping.  She is also on something called pro biotics, which is granuals that we mix into her formula and it's good bacteria that will help her tummy work better.  It's kind of like eating really good yogurt :)

It seems like she is on the mend.  Last night she slept for 13 hours, and I don't think she moved the whole time!  While we were in the hospital it was hard for her to get uninterrupted sleep.  There was always someone coming in to check her blood pressure, take blood, or empty the garbage cans!  She also took a three hour nap today so she is definitely catching up on her sleep!

Tomorrow we are headed out to Granbury to visit with Scott's parents.  Scott and his dad are going golfing and I'm going to do a little shopping while Scott's mom watches Callie.  It should be a nice relaxing day and I know that Match & Patch will be happy to see Callie :)

Back again :(

We are back in the hospital again. Callie came home on Saturday and after her nap things just went downhill. She is back on IV fluids and we are seeing a Gastro Intestinal doctor later today. They did and X-Ray and Ultrasound of her belly and every thing looks fine there. So it seems that it is just a really bad stomach virus that is just kicking her little hiney.

Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we try to get this little girl healthy again!

We are home!

We are finally home! Thanks goodness!! Callie is feeling much better, although she is not quite 100% yet, she is at least hydrated!

Even though our stay in the hospital was a long one it was not too bad . . . We were in a new part of the hospital called 5 Pavillion, which is an extension of the Emergency Room. The idea of 5P is that it is for patients that need more care than a couple of hours in the ER, but should be able to go home in under 23 hours. Well, we stayed a little bit longer than 23 hours, actually around 75 hours, but it was still a good experience. 5P only has ten rooms, so there is a lot more personalized care. The nurses we dealt with were all great, and I think they all got a little attached to Callie, since most of their patients aren't there for as long as we were.

The best part of 5P was the "Red Wagon Express". We finally convinced our nurse to let us pull Callie around in the wagon and she loved it. When we first arrived she was considered to be in isolation because of all the diarrhea she was having, but once that got better we got to explore a little bit . . .

playing with her prayer bear the chaplin department brought :)

modeling the new headband I bought at the craft fair that was at the hospital on Friday :)

We are still here

So, we are still in the hospital.  Callie had a great night last night and slept soundly the whole night!  Which was great for both of us.  She had blood drawn this morning and her labs came back great so we thought we would be able to go home this afternoon.  Well, the doctor came by at noon and said she was doing well, but wanted to wait until tomorrow to send us home.  For the past 24 hours she has been on IV fluids that are being pushed twice what she would produce naturally.  The doctor wants the IV fluids to be turned down to "maintenance" (what Callie would produce naturally) and then after that take her off fluids and see how she does.  They will take blood again early tomorrow mornings and if her labs look okay then we will be able to go home, hopefully :)

We also found out today that she had just a plain old stomach virus, not Rotovirus which is a really severe stomach virus or anything else.  Let's just hope that every time she gets a stomach virus we don't have to come to the hospital to get IV fluids.  This is her second one and the second time she has gotten so dehydrated that she needed fluids.  I guess I will have to turn into a total germaphobe mom and make sure everything is super clean and not let her play in the dirt and stuff :)

We are also starting to get really stir crazy.  Callie isn't allowed to leave the room since she could be contagious, so the poor thing is stuck in here all day.  The hospital has these great little red wagons that we could pull her around in, but they won't let us.  So Scott and I have been doing a lot of sitting quietly in the dark while she sleeps :)  Scott brought our laptop from home today and there is wireless internet, so at least we have that to do.  Hopefully we don't go too crazy . . .

Keep us in your thoughts :)

For the past 36 hours we have been in the hospital with Miss Callie. She has had some sort of stomach virus for the past week and early Wednesday morning we came to the ER at Cook Children's hospital to get her some IV fluids. She was so dehydrated that we have had to be here this long getting her fluids. She seems to be doing a little better so that is good. She is very exhausted, as it is pretty tough to get a good night's sleep in a hospital :) I have a feeling that we may be here over night again. She gets her next set of labs drawn at 4pm today and we will see from there.

Scott and I are doing okay, just very sleep deprived and worried.

Milk Allergy??

We have great news, Callie has no milk allergy!!!!!!!!  She is also not allergic to: cod fish, peanuts, wheat, egg whites, walnuts, cat & dog dander, and cockroaches (plus a couple other things I can't remember)!  The doctor ordered a complete allergy screen and who knew a cockroach allergy was included, but it was :)

We are so excited that we don't have to worry about a milk allergy anymore.  Now we can go back to Japan next year and not be worried about everything that she will be eating.  She can now enjoy cheese, which I'm sure our dog Ozzie will appreciate, because he will be getting all the stuff she throws off the highchair!!

Happy Halloween!!

Callie had a very festive Halloween on Friday.  We had Kindermusik in the morning and she got to wear her Halloween dress, which she loved!  After dinner we decided to go to a few of our neighbors' houses to Trick-or-Treat.  Since Callie doesn't really eat candy or understand the meaning of Halloween, we were basically just showing of her pretty dress and visiting with our friends.  She had a good time and really loved once we got back home and the doorbell kept ringing.  

Another picture of Callie in her dress.  It was so cute I had to post another one :)  I will be taking bids for the dress from all of you with little girls :) (it's size 18m)

Getting ready to Trick-or-Treat with Mommy

Showing Daddy the Skittles she got :)