home....

We are home and Michael is feeling much better! He is eating us out of the house, playing with all his toys and loving his bed!! He slept 14 hours last night and is now taking a good nap!

They got a few more tests back and they were all negative. There are still a few more that hopefully we'll find out something the first of the week. We really feel that it was a viral infection of some sort and dehydration caused most of it.

Here are a few pictures from the hospital....

Right after getting to the hospital and getting the IV in....he wanted Daddy!

A tiny burst of energy....fun buttons on the bed!

poor baby...

first smile of the week! Thank you Lauren for the balloon and lion!!

sleeping with momma...

yummy texas tech cookies from the Boyles...

who knew stickers on the nose could be so fun and help make the boy smile more!

he was not lacking in the love and attention department!!

first time to eat good....yummy pizza with pa!

yea!! he's finally coming back slowly. daddy was playing peek-a-boo!

michael and his friends watching mickey mouse...

showing uncle turt & uncle bruce his new jeep...

thank you noni, jim and chance for the balloon and puppy!

wednesday night....the first real energy. he wanted to play cars on the floor with daddy.

thank you to all the nurses who took really good care of and loved michael!!

Update

Wow...it's been a week.
This week is my annual TCEA Convention that Mom and I always go to together. Michael didn't feel good at all all weekend, but we thought that by Monday he would feel a little better so we could go. He wasn't. He woke up Monday not feeling any better, but Daddy assured us that they would be ok and that we should just go. So after much debate on my part, we finally left Monday morning driving to Austin. Daddy did call the pediatrician and she decided to see him that morning.

Mom and I got all the way to Round Rock, just north of Austin and daddy called saying they wanted to admit him to the hospital. UGH! Why the he** did I ever leave??!? So we just kept driving straight to the airport in Austin. We pulled up and mom was throwing out some things out of a bag and putting in some clothes and I ran to catch the flight. I missed one flight, but there was another one about 30 minutes later. I made the mistake of calling to check in while I was in line and the only thing I could hear was screaming. They were trying to put in an IV.

After flying all over Texas, I finally got back to Lubbock and dad was there to meet me.

Michael was (finally not today) severely dehydrated. They thought giving him fluids would help, but it really hasn't, so they know something else is going on. They've run all sorts of tests...flu, RSV, pneumonia, and many many more....which all come back negative. That is a great thing, but he's still not feeling good. So, today we wait. Wait for more blood tests results.

We have been so blessed with phone calls, emails, comments on Facebook...and mostly lots and lots of prayers. We cannot express how much we truly appreciate all of it. Hopefully we will know some answers today.

so the doctor says....

We finally got in to see the pediatrician today....after waiting an hour in the waiting room....with a sick baby.

Anyways...she most definitely thought he is allergic to penicillin. That's what the nurse practitioner gave him last Wednesday for congestion and ear infection. He's had it before with no problems. We didn't give it to him over the weekend when he had the stomach bug, but then started him back on it after he started feeling better from that. He had about 3 doses and woke up with a rash. So who knows...

She put him on some strong steroids and Zyrtec. He still has ear infections so she wants to see him again next week to see how that is going.

Poor guy still doesn't fill good at all. Hopefully he will sleep good tonight after a good bath...with one nice shark and cool blue bubbles!


Thank you to all who have called, emailed, texted or asked about Michael. We really appreciate each one of you and your prayers.

still not good.

We thought the boy was getting better yesterday, then all the sudden he started saying 'belly hurt' again. We tried eating and he didn't touch a bite of it. This morning, I wake up to this...


And it's all over his body...head to toe. Ugh. So I call Grandma (and wake her up) to ask if she can come over while I run to school to beg for a sub again. I called the pediatrician and she definitely thought he needed to be seen. Trouble is....winter storm of the decade has hit with horrible road conditions.

(and yes, when she got him out of bed, he had to have these rain boots!)

So, I got him in to a family doctor here. After ruling out measles, strep throat, and chicken pox, he finally decided it could be roseola. He said it could be caused by a number of things. He took him off of one of the medicines he got last week, put him on different medicine and gave us some cream. We came home and took an oatmeal bath (which is very messy if you do the homemade kind...just sayin'), ate some grilled cheese sandwich and took a good nap. Yes, since he's been this sick, he gets whatever he dang well pleases...including watching Mickey Mouse in Daddy's chair while eating lunch! :)

This afternoon was spent reading books, playing a little and eating some snow!!

Burrrrrr...not too sure about it!

but much better with strawberries and blueberries in it! :)

Daddy finally got home and built us a warm fire!

Thank goodness Santa brought us a fire truck!!

So, needless to say, but we sure would appreciate some prayers for healing for this little guy.

not so great weekend....

Ugh. After a fun day on Saturday at the Red Raider basketball game, we woke up Sunday to a sick boy. He had gotten sick in his bed that night. He's done this before and it was just because he had eaten too much the night before. We thought that was the same thing, but boy were we wrong! He really didn't eat much breakfast on Sunday morning, and mid-morning, it all came back up plus more! Oh my. So he got a warm bath while daddy mopped up the kitchen floor.

Daddy had to leave for a business trip, so he left me there with the boy. Grandma had a cold and didn't want to be around him....Juice & Pa couldn't come in case it was the bug. So here we go. I fixed him some pedialyte juice and he drank it good. Long story short, the boy had the bug. He threw up a few more times, had bad bad diapers and just flat didn't feel good. He finally ate one cracker Sunday evening and kept it down.

I stayed home with him yesterday. He didn't get sick Sunday night or yesterday. Thank goodness. Yesterday, he absolutely had no energy. He let me rock him and hold him and even fell asleep in my arms! I let him have brown bear all he wanted and watch as much Mickey Mouse and Handy Manny he wanted. He fell asleep in Daddy's chair that morning, woke up and ate a banana and went back to sleep in the chair. I finally moved him to his bed.




He stayed with Grandma today and she fixed all the right stuff for him! He still didn't eat tonight and kept saying 'belly hurt'. Hopefully tomorrow will be better and he can go to school.