ER Trip Number 5

Yep, we went twice this week. On Monday the boys got curious and both tried standing in the bottom drawer of their dresser. Ummm, it fell on top of them. Ayden was holding his arm and Ian was holding his head and they were crying and running in circles. They turned out to be fine. I just didn't know how to tell if they had broken bones or brains spilling out so I took them to be on the safe side.
Trip number5 was yesterday, Sunday. Ayden was vomitting and had "the big D" starting Friday night. By Sunday he was so weak he couldn't move or talk.

Ian geared up for church

Robin took Ian to church with her and Brent while I stayed home with Ayden and Afton. He was consistently keeping a temperature of 103, so when Josh got home I took Ayden to the ER. I ran into a friend who's baby had a nasty virus, so we visited in the waiting room, and then our next door neighbor (a nurse there) greeted us and got us started with his treatment. It turns out that he has strep throat. They gave him an IV with fluids and an anti-nausea medicine, then a shot of antibiotics in the leg. There's a scale they use for dehydration. Normal is 18-22. He was at 16. If he would have been 15 he would have been admitted into the hospital. THANK GOODNESS he was well enough and could hold down the popsicle they gave him so we could go home. I need some wood to knock on, but I really hope we don't have to go back any time soon.

I'm not one to take such sad pictures, but this was so sweet I couldn't resist. He was so tired, he fell asleep with the straw in his mouth. He was drinking his "gator-sprite" as he calls it.