Poor Max

In all the 9 years we've had kids this is only the 2nd time we've been to the ER! Max is the only 1 that's been and his 1st trip was less than a month ago! Should I be worried?!? lol Anyway this trip was a middle of the night 1 {the best kind right;) } He had been throwing up and having bad diarrhea and ended up being pretty dehydrated. Lily was able to come up and stay with the kids and get them off to school. Anita came later and waited til MIL Paula was able to get there to stay the night with them on Tuesday. It's nice to know you got people you can count on no matter what:) We are very thankful for them!:) So after hours of taking temps, blood pressure, X-rays and CAT scans and tons of puke and poop {ugh all the smells+prego lady=not good!} they finally decide to admit him to pediatrics. Hook him up to an IV -that was quite the deal in itself! We all {Max, Bruce and I} are exhausted so we get settled in our room around 8:30 and try to get some sleep. I hadn't slept a wink all night in the ER Bruce had off and on, so I told him I was gonna get to sleep 1st but when I tried I could for the life of me fall asleep:( Max definitely captured the hearts of all his nurses;) They gave him a tractor, a teddy bear, a book and pretty much anything he wanted! Poor guy he just looked so pitiful and miserable:( Anytime a nurse or Dr. would come in he would say "Please don't hurt me!" and they always felt bad and tried to reassure him that it would be ok. I didn't get any pictures of him when he looked really terrible before the IV cuz I was a little frazzled! I feel bad for parents of kids who are really sick and have to spend alot of time at the hospital! It's so hard to have your kid crying cuz the nurses have to draw blood or having them ask for something to drink when they can't have anything! I'm sure that what they have to go through is so much worse! My heart really goes out to them!

You know they are really sick when they just lay there with no protest!

His IV he had to have an arm board because he wouldn't stop moving his wrist.

He had such big, black circles under his eyes! It was so awful to see him like that, he's normally so full of energy! Hopefully this will be the end of it!:) I've put all the toys in the house {they have way too many toys!} into a tub full of bleach water and wiped down the place with disinfectant in hopes that no one else will get sick and so far so good:) {knock on wood!;)}