She needed her mommy
Ouchy!
She LOVES her daddy
In her crib/cage
Madi was sorry for sister
Next morning, you can see a sliver of her eye! Already getting better
Madi loved playing in her crib
Waiting for daddy to come back with food
Hanging out
Sunday morning, the day we got to leave. Look at that eye now!
We are spent! Right after my birthday I noticed that Gracie had sores or cankers in her mouth. I thought she must have been biting on her lip. Well come to find out, she got many more and got they got huge. She wouldn't eat or drink. She was in pain. Poor thing. She was diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease(horrible name). Can't prescribe anything for this virus. Just has to run its course. Madi got it a couple of days later. Jeff and I didn't get any sleep the entire weekend. Then a week ago we noticed a little purple bump on Gracie's left eyelid. I just thought she got bit by an insect or something. Didn't worry about it at all. Thursday morning it was significantly bigger, so Jeff took her in and she was prescribed an antibiotic. The doctor said if it got worse to bring her back in. Well Friday it was way worse so all four of us took her in. I had a feeling she was going to be admitted to the hospital and I wanted Jeff there with me. Hilary was gone to a volleyball tournament, so we had to tow Madi around with us. It would have been nice to have her home so she could watch Madilynn for us. Oh yeah Hilary got the hand-foot-mouth disease too. From the girls. Sorry Hil! Anyways, they said that it was bad enough to admit her to the hospital to get antibiotics through IV. I was so scared for her! When we got settled in the room. Jeff said he wanted day shifts. So I got the night shifts at the hospital. What I don't think he realized when he said that was that included her IV being put in. I had to take Madi home, she was sooo cranky and she needed her nap. So Jeff got the IV duty. About three hours later they finally had her IV in after 14 tries!!!! Who does that to a little girl not even 2 years old yet? I was furious. Three diffrerent nurses tried and that equaled 11 attempts before they finally called the anesthesiologist. He even had to try 3 times before they finally got it in. My poor Gracie. She did a great job. Jeff said it was sooo hard to see that. I feel so bad for him, but glad I didn't have to be there. I would have been crying so hard and probably would have decked a nurse or two :) We were at the hospital for two nights and three days. Her culture came back saying it was a Staphylococcus aureus infection. Because of her illness her immune system was weak and she must have scratched her eye and it got infected. Anyway we are so happy to be back home. Gracie still has to take two different antibiotics every day, but her eye is getting better. It isn't back to normal yet. We are hoping by this time next week she is 100%.
14 comments:
I am so glad she is home and doing better, I sure do love those girls! Kiss them from us!
WOW! What an ordeal. Gracie was such a trooper. Now she'll have a story to tell when she gets older. We are so thankful for prayer and the priesthood. She got better fast after her blessing. We are so glad you are all doing better and life will get back to normal soon. It was fun to talk to the girls today. I'm looking forward to seeing you all next month. Mom
OH MY! Poor little girl! I'm glad that you guys are home now and doing better.
YIKES! Glad to hear that she is feeling better and back at home with her family. Hope that everyone gets rested up and feeling better quick!
Oh my goodness that poor little girl! No probablies about it I would have decked a nurse or two. Sorry she had to go through this, and you also, it is no fun seeing your babies go through that! Hope she gets feeling better soon, and you all get some sleep!
Oh Poor little thing! I feel your pain before Wyatt was 1 he had to be hospitalized and they wouldn't even let us in the room when they did the IV I could hear him screaming down the hall and all I could do was cry it took them 30 minutes to get it in him and I don't know how many pokes I was so mad! I'm glad your home and she is doing better it's so hard to see them hurt!!
You guys are so tough! that would be aweful to watch someone stab my kid with a needle that many times to have it not work. Poor girl! I am glad she is doing better!
I am glad to hear that Gracie is doing better and hopefully she will be back to normal ASAP. That must of be scary. Props to Jeff for being there for the IV, being pricked 14 times would make anyone upset, not to mention a 1 year old - Poor thing. Our best yo you all.
Wow! I bet you are all exhausted!!! I am so sorry! Hope things get back to normal SOON!! What an ordeal!!!
What a nightmare! I'm so glad she's all right. Poor girl having to get poked with the needle so many times. I hope you can catch up on your sleep.
All Grandma can say is DAMMIT!! (can you say that on a blog?) Love you babies!!! G&G Lau
That little trooper! I just wish I could squeeze your chillins right now! I'm proud of you guys for keeping us so updated and informed on Gracie while she was in the hospital! It sucked so bad that you weren't closer to us! I wanted to be helping you so bad! So glad that the girls are doing better! And Hil too lol! Love you guys!
OH MY GOSH!!! I'm so glad she's getting better! Those pictures just make me so sad! =/ Tell them hi for me =)
Kortney
Oh! I think it should not be allowed for little kids to be sick or get hurt! Makes me feel so bad for them when they are so little...what can they do 'ya know? It always amazes what troopers they are, though. Glad she is doing better! Hope you and Jeff can get some rest soon too! Loves!!!
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