Flu Bug

There is a Flu Bug at our house...

...I had said this on the phone earlier and Archer asked me where the bug was and if I was going to kill it. :)

So DarTanion woke up Sunday morning around 3am-ish throwing up. He was sick until he had nothing left in his stomach. Then he went back to sleep and slept it off. I didn't think anything else of it. Last night / this morning (12:30am), Robynson started screaming. Jeremiah went in to check on her and sure enough, she had thrown up. This is generally what happens at our house. If one of us gets sick, it goes thru the rest of us and then we're fine. Well, having a baby with a 'heart problem' makes you a little more paranoid about that darn little Flu Bug...

Robynson was throwing up from 12:30am til close to 6:30am. At first it was every 15 minutes, then it went to 30 minutes. I think the longest in between was around 45 minutes. I sat up with her on the couch and she would always cough / cry because she knew it was coming. That was my warning that I had approx. 2 seconds to get her bent over the trash can... It was so sad! She just wanted a drink, so I would give her water / gaterade / sprite... Shortly after, it was in the trash can. I stayed awake most of the time with her - just watching her breathe. She stayed normal the whole time. Nothing out of the ordinary. But I just had to make sure. She kept her medicine down this morning and slept a lot this afternoon (but so did I - I mean, we were up all night!) She's been going to the bathroom pretty much normal, so I guess no need to panic...

But, I guess now that whenever she gets sick with a cold or a flu bug or whatever, I'm going to be overly paranoid... I didn't call the hospital, but I was going to. I didn't drive her to PCMC, but I was thinking about it all night. It's amazing how you can stay awake all night out of worry and just watch someone breathe...

Archer was great to play trains, watch tv and play X-Box while DarTanion was at school today. Robyn and I tried to catch up on our missed sleep... We took a couple of naps during the day and she's acted completely fine the rest of the day...

I wanted to post this - you know, just in case the doctors need to know - so that I could remember things. In the mean time, here is a video of her running around the train at Primary Children's while we waited for her medicine... (taken with my camera phone, so sorry for the quality...)

Next appointment is on Friday, August 28th...
Until then, much love to you all...