What a night it's been! As many for you know, both kids have been sick. Alex has had the worst of any of us. The latest started on Sunday with uncontrollable coughing, gagging (and eventually throwing up). After 2 days of this, she was given a breathing treatment and sent for a chest x-ray which confirmed she has pnuemonia. Lovely. That was as of 5pm last night. Then at midnight, she began violently vomitting. It continued every 5 to 7 minutes through 4am when we took her to emergency. We spent several hours getting her hydrated with IV fluids and an anti-nausea med was give, which helped immensely. They don't believe the two were connected and think it was/is some sort of a tummy bug. Her school called and said 30+ kids were out today with something similar. (So consider yourself warned Heather.)
But the docs were all very confident that we should proceed with the trip as planned and that the zofran would work and help keep her comfortable until it passes. So off we go to Florida in hopes of leaving all of this poor health back in NY!
Cruise sets sail tomorrow afternoon, and hopefully we are all back to good health by then!
But the docs were all very confident that we should proceed with the trip as planned and that the zofran would work and help keep her comfortable until it passes. So off we go to Florida in hopes of leaving all of this poor health back in NY!
5 comments:
Good luck and I hope your vacation is soon germ-free and Magical!!!
My hopes for restored health and to have LOTS of FUN seem to be the best medicine that the doctor could ever order too. Have a blast!!
Yikes! Not the way you want to start your trip. I'm so glad the doctors told you you could still go. Have a fantastic time!
Poor Alex! Hope she is now having lot's of fun, along with all of you! Can't wait to see pics when u get home. Have safe and fun trip!
Ack! Sue - somehow your blog got dropped from my blogger blog reader and I just caught it, and am just now reading this!
I'm catching up and it looks like you guys made the vacation; I scrolled down so now I'll see it.
YES the barfing bug was bad - kids were throwing up IN CLASS (the teacher told me that there were seven students who threw up in the hallways one day) but *knock wood* Emma somehow missed it. By midweek, the number of kids out was in the 60s!
Off to catch up on the rest of what I missed!
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