Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Doctors, hospitals, IVs and some other fun

Well starting on 8/9 Roarke was not feeling well and throwing up a bit. By his drs appt on Wed he was really throwing up but he was still active so the dr wasn't too alarmed but didn't give him his immunizations. Thursday morning found us in the hospital where he was admitted for severe dehydration. He had an IV and a billion tests, they found a heart murmur (hooray...) and we stayed there until Saturday afternoon/evening...
Meemaw and Pop were nice enough to take Ada (as she was yelling at the drs and nurses as they would make Roarke cry whenever they came in the room and trying to order chocolate milk on the hospital room phone) down to my brother and sis in laws place in Arlington VA as they just moved back to the states for a bit from China. She had a much better time.
So here are just a few pics of my poor little guy in the hospital. He had to stay in the crib most of the time as he had an IV tube in his arm and therefore couldn't walk too far and he didn't always want to be held. He kept pulling on the IV and bending his arm so they had to put on what's called a "No-No" so he looks like he's in a cast...at least the hospital part is over for now and we are now in full operation mode of "Get-Roarke-to-gain-more-weight-or-else-this-could-happen-again as he is now back to his meager 17 lbs and he needs some more mass or we are going to just paint his poking out bones so he can be skeleton boy for Halloween...

So sad!!!

2 comments:

Stinson Family said...

It is soo hard to have a sick child. I wish and pray that he will be feeling better soon. I hope everything works out so he will put on some weight. If you need anything we are here for you. Love to all of you!

Curtiss & Ginger said...

ohhhhhh poor thing! He still looks so dang precious though...what a cute family you have! Hope things are going much better for you all!