Friday, September 17, 2010

ER visit last night

What a night.....Caleb came down with a stomach bug yesterday afternoon. He started throwing up around 4:00pm and we couldn't get him to stop. We tried everything and nothing seemed to stay down. It was terrible. He was dry heaving and getting so pale. We called the pediatrician and he told us a few things to watch for and if he wasn't better to take him in. We decided he wasn't getting any better and decided to take him in around 10:00 last night. Our sweet neighbor came over and stayed here while Weston was sleeping. We headed to the ER at the children's hospital in San Antonio. We had to wait forever. We finally saw the doctor around 12:30am and they gave him some medicine to stop throwing up. We had to wait to make sure he'd keep that down, which thankfully he did. Then they gave him tiny doses in a bottle of pedialyte. This was torture for my Caleb. He doesn't take tiny doses of anything :) He was so hungry that he would just scream when the bottle ran out each time. We were having to give him doses of 1/3 of an ounce. He was sucking the bottle dry every time. We had to keep doing that every few minutes and make sure he'd keep it down. Thankfully he didn't throw up again. If he would have then they would have given him an I.V. I was really glad we didn't have to do that! He responded really well to the pedialyte and then we were discharged around 2:00. It was a very long night to say the least but we're just so thankful he is ok. He's done really good today. He's slept a lot and been on pedialyte most of the day. We even got some smiles tonight so we know he's getting back to himself!
Not sure who else takes pictures in the ER, but he just was so cute in his little hospital gown that I had to take a few. I hope we never have to go back there again!

He had so much suction on that little bottle that I didn't even have to hold it! He had a death grip on it!

3 comments:

The Hembrees said...

Oh Mandy! I am so sorry! Ben had the stomach bug on Monday and Tuesday! Luckily we didn't get it! Hope Caleb gets to feeling better soon!

Rachael said...

Poor Caleb, that is so sad! I had the same bug this week and it was miserable. I can't imagine it for a little baby! Praise God for good medicine!

The Currie Family said...

Poor little guy! Sorry you all got so sick :(