Interruption of life

Hi!

I am glad to be back. Life kinda took priority over blogging this past week.

So here is the run down on what happened.

I tried to upload a few pics but will try again later, I am having server errors, oh joy!

Monday night the kids got sick with the flu-as you already know, and they continued to throw up till midnight Tuesday.

Then Wednesday they were able to drink water and nurse and keep it down, but then the diareah started.

Kaitlyn and Ethan bot slept the whole day and only woke to guzzle water or full their diapers, I was glad they slept....I did too.

By around 5 pm that evening they both started to get sick again and went down hill fast. By 8 Kaitlyn was no longer chatting with us, wouldn't answer questions and would just stare off in the distance when talked to. She was pale and lethargic and I started to freak out. I called healthlink and talked to a nurse who demanded that I call an ambulance, I freaked even more and started to sob.

Dave had already started the truck and we drove ourselves to the emergency within minutes.

No sitting in the waiting room, they took one look at her little face and ushered us right in.

First they tried to give the kids Pedialite. Ethan spit it out and Kaitlyn threw it up. Next was graval. She threw it up too.

Finally they hooked her up to an IV and started her on a drip. Ethan seemed to be turning the corner for the better so he was discharged.

After one bag of fluid the nurse unhooked Kaitlyn and capped the needle in her arm. We went home for the night and where to return in the morning.

Through the night Ethan got sick again and by the time we were back at the hospital in the morning they both needed to be hooked up to IV's.

We spent the day in ER waiting for beds to come available in the children's ward and by 4 that afternoon only one had.

We were then told we would be transferred to another hospital where we would be accommodated. I made it clear we would all have to be in the same room, they both needed me and I was assured that we would be.

An ambulance was called for our transfer and then I was told that we couldn't all go together and I could go with one child and the other would go in a second ambulance.

If I wanted them to go together I must remove my cars seats from my vehicle for the transport. I said "no". Installing those things was a major pain in the hoo-haw and they have both been approved by the fire department. I wasn't going to mess with them.

I finally convinced the hospital to cap the kids IV's and I drove them over to the other hospital myself. Dave showed up as we were getting ready to leave and he followed us over as well.

Once up in the ward at the second hospital we were told that the kids would be in separate rooms down the hall from each other.

I freaked!

Again.

The nurse was so rude and called the other hospital to see who's fault it was that we were told we could be in the same room. Like it mattered.

Apparently it is against their policy to allow more than one child to a room.

After some bickering and pleading and another call to the other hospital the nurse decided they could make a one night only exception to their policy and let us room together.

Our stay was not pleasant. The nurses did not go out of their way to make us feel welcome and I could hardly wait to leave.

They talked about how we were a pain and difficult since we were not abiding by their policy within ear shot.

I was appalled and could hardly wait to leave.

After a long night and a day on IV's the kids were doing better. Not 100% but well enough to go home.

Thank goodness!

We came home Friday night and next thing you know Dave is getting sick.

He was up all night, poor guy.

Katie brought home wings for me as a treat and I got food poisoning and got sick once in the middle of the night.

Saturday was spent lazing around and then Sunday everyone was back to normal.

What a week!

No repeats any time soon, please!