How we spent our Christmas

Since our flight back to Iowa, Addison has not been feeling 100%. She didn't sleep on the 8 hour plane ride (maybe an hour)...and then really didn't have an appetite for the next couple days.

We drove to my folks on Saturday, and Sunday Addison started getting sick. She wasn't eating much, and what she did eat or drink came back up. I thought she had gotten some strain of the flu, but she just wasn't getting any better. Monday I took her to the doctor. He prescribed antibiotics for a start of an ear infection, and said she had a virus. The next day she wasn't eating or drinking anything but she kept voimiting.
Nick and I took her to the Emergency Room the afternoon of Christmas Eve. She had labs drawn, x-rays, urine analysis, and more x-rays. They found she was pretty dehydrated and admitted her to get IV fluids. We spent the night so she could get re-hydrated.

She hated her IV, especially since they taped her hand down to a board so that she wouldn't bend her wrist. However, she became very good at managing with it with her thumb free.

This afternoon, Christmas Day, she finally started eating applesauce, but was still not drinking. With the IV fluids, she was keeping hydrated and therefore was not feeling 'thirsty'. She was acting much more like herself, not the ragdoll she had been the past 3 days. The doctor let us come home tonight but we need to encourage fluids.

It was not fun spending Christmas in a hospital, but I hope that she is on her way to a speedy recovery. She played a little when we got home tonight, but was very tired, so Grandma rocked her for a while before she went to bed.

Even though she missed Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa's, her brother and sister left Santa a note so that he wouldn't forget her.



I hope you all have had a much better Christmas than we had. We are exhausted and cold!!!!

Happy Holidays!!!