Super Grammy!

The past 3 weeks have been so much of a blur. I forget what every day life is like! I'm just now starting to feel good but am still pretty wiped out. YIKES were we ever sick!

It all started 3 weeks ago. Jayden stopped nursing. He literally just sat up or turned his head whenever I tried. He also started refusing baby food. (Like purees and stuff.) He only wanted chunky "adult" food. Then a few days later he kinda just stopped eating altogether. He also was up every hour at night. I took him to the doctor thinking he might have an ear infection. She said he didn't. We made the trip to Michigan for a few days where he continued to drink a maximum 10oz of milk a day. On the drive back to IL it all started. He had the most foul smelling diaper you could imagine. Absolutely horrid. We stopped at a McDonalds and changed him there. It was the start of the extreme diarrhea he would be having. The next day I took him into the doctor. She said he did have an ear infection and also the rotavirus. I was surprised by the rotavirus because he had already received a vaccination for it. (the vaccination doesnt cover all the strains of it) The doc put jayden on amoxicillin which made the diarrhea he was having even worse. The poor little guy was soooo sick! He was feverish, vomiting, and having up to 20 bad diapers a day. Jesse and I blew up a mattress and slept on the floor in his room. He was requiring constant care. Over the next weekend, jayden was eating less and less and having even worse diarrhea. By Sunday he was dehydrated. Thats when it got even worse... I came down with it. So monday jesse took Jayden to the doc and she said that yes he was dehydrated but we could wait to take him to the hospital the next morning. Monday night jesse came down with it too. So there we were, stuck with a dehydrated baby and no one to take him to the hospital. So we prayed and prayed all night that Jayden would get better. And he did. The diarrhea stopped over night! It had lasted a week. It was breaking my heart to think of Jayden going to the hospital and me not being able to go with him! That is when Super Grammy came into play! We could NOT have done it without her!! My mom had come home from MI with me to help watch him. My dad joined us over the weekend and helped too. It took all four of us to take care of one sick baby. My parents went home on saturday. When my mom found out how sick we all were,(and that jayden needed hospitalization but we were too sick to leave the house) they delayed their trip to Virginia and my dad drove my mom all the way here over night and then drove himself back for work in the morning. THANKS DAD! We honestly couldnt have done it without you. I was so sick, I couldn't keep down even water for 3 full days. I didn't eat anything for 5 whole days. Thats how sick I was. I couldn't stand up much less pick up Jayden. Jesse was sick in bed too. Thankfully my mom is the closest thing to me and did an amazing job caring for Jayden. She knows his schedule and just what to do. That makes sense i guess... everything i learned about being a mom I learned from her. Not only did she take care of jayden, but she took care of Jesse and I too. When she was here, i didnt have to worry about a thing. She cleaned the house, did the laundry, and kept us feed. In fact, even when she left, a dinner was cooking in the oven for us that night. She truly is Super Grammy! THANK YOU MOM!!! We could NOT have survived the week without you! As Pappy said earlier this week, "you have angels right in the family."

So that is the update. Jayden is on a new antibiotic to fix the ear infections he still has. We hope he is back to normal very soon!