Scary little baby episode...

On Thursday afternoon, I was advised by my family physician to take the Lyssy Kissy to the ER at Children's Hospital. Miss Lyss was experiencing typical teething symptoms with some earaches but was unable to keep anything, including pedialyte, in her system since Wednesday evening. Since it had been going on 48 hours of little to no food in her system, the Dr. advised me to take her to the ER as she was becoming severely dehydrated with blood in her diaper on Thursday afternoon. Since then, she came home on Saturday and is now doing TONS better. The hospital doctors believed that it was a viral infection called a rotavirus that caused her to have top and bottom end problems. Unfortunately, this virus had to run its course but often sends almost all infants with this virus to the ER. On top of it all, she came down with a snotbug just as the virus was clearing up. She is now doing much better, because her smile has returned and she is now kicking her feet up in the air during diaper changes. We still have to use pedialyte mixed in with her formula, which will be decreased as she shows that she can keep formula down. Since formula is what caused her to stay an extra day, along with her vomiting after a coughing fit, they do not want to push the limit.

Unfortunately, as most people with multiple children know, Aron is now coming down with something that may be similar to Alyssa's illness. However, at this time, he is nowhere near as bad as Alyssa was. While his appetite has decreased and he is coughing a little more mucus, he is not running a temperature and is doing okay. It appears that he did not get the rotavirus but only the snotbug that Alyssa got just as the rotavirus was clearing up.

For all of the family members who were helping Joel and I out since Thursday, I thank you all greatly. I knew life would be fun with two at the same time, but I guess it finally hit me on how interesting it would be.