Friday, May 16, 2008

Getting better

Well, there is NO WAY I can easily sum up the last few days. We've had an up and down roller coaster of fear with Mallory, mainly that she was getting dehydrated, but she's doing MUCH better. Since my last post about her, she began vomiting again with lots of the "other" stuff. She was also refusing to drink. My mom ended up getting what Mallory had on Wed morning, so I ended up driving home by myself on Wed and drove straight to the doc. I was seriously running on empty, but the Lord sustained! Mallory was showing signs of dehydration, but the doctor thought she was OK based on her actions. And as long as she urinated (it had been 12 hours since she had ANYTHING in her diaper when I saw the doc), he felt as though I should just keep doing what I was doing. OK, let me stop myself before I give anymore gory details. And I said this would be short...And in short, we're all doing better. Did I say that Ethan has a sinus infection? No, no, no...this is supposed to be short.

Last night was the first time I had slept all night in a week...no vomit!!! YEAH! It's the little battles we have to win these days. Mallory has lost 2 lbs in the past 4 weeks (10% of her body weight!!!) which means she's just been through the ringer. So, we'll be keeping her out of nursery and playgroup for the next few weeks in order for her little body to have a break from the illness. She and E are both sleeping now, which means it's time for me to rest. I haven't taken a picture in like 5 days (which is a LONG time for me...), but maybe I'll have some more to post in a few days. Needless to say, we'll be doing some R&R this weekend. We all need rest!

Here is a brief video of the kids on the horses at the Emu festival. This was before we knew Mallory was ill. We thought she was just tired, but she let us know her TRUE feels a few hours after this video was taken...

6 comments:

Nicole said...

Oh Melanie! I'm so glad it seems as though everyone is on the mend! Poor kiddos and poor mommie!!!

Justmatt said...

Isn't it fun!?! ; )
Our oldest Eden is sick again with the chest congestion and cough thing - although at night she coughs so much that it causes her to throw up.....no fun....we are off to the doctor today....again....we just went through this a month ago...and the month before that...and the....oh you get the point...cold season is fun.

BTW - how did you do your Blog banner with the photo and all... I can't figure it out...

Mel H. said...

I'm so sorry things have been so rough, on everyone it seems!! Try to rest this weekend and I'm sure Mallory will be doing better soon enough!

Melanie said...

Matt...my blog banner is 660x440 pixels. I had to resize my image and add the text in photoshop to reach the pixel size to match the banner size. Then, I just replaced my banner with my own image. Easy Peasy.

And sorry to hear about your sick kiddo. It stinks. I don't know if this will help, but I hear from a friend that Vicks Vapor Rub on the feet will help with coughing. She's a mom of 4 and seems to know her stuff. I just figured I'd pass the info along. Good luck at the doc...

Melanie said...

Matt...one more thing, when you edit the header in the layout portion of the blogger dashboard, make sure you choose the placement option to use the image instead of the header and description.

Nicole said...

We used Vick's on Emma's feet last month when she had croup and it TOTALLY worked!!