Still Sick

We’ve had another rough day around here, with my poor Emmie girl still not feeling well. Jeff went out to Quincy this morning to do some computer work for an elderly couple from my cousins’ church. I stayed home with the girls to work on some chores and take care of Emerson. And unfortunately, she’s really not much better today. So Addie and I worked on some chores together, and Emmie mostly napped off and on. Jeff got home around 2pm and the Addie and I went out to run errands and pick up our Walmart grocery order. I made my own at-home latte for the road, and we also hit up a Little Free Library while we were out.

But this little one couldn’t hang, and fell asleep in the car for a bit of a nap on our way to Walmart. Then we had to sit and wait for about 20 minutes, and she slept through all of that time as well.

After getting back home again, and getting the groceries put away, I was back on nurse-mom duty for Emmie. I sent Jeff and Addie out to get dinner on their own, and they went back to Barrio Burrito Bar for their official grand opening event.

I stayed back at home with my girl, as she fell back asleep in mommy’s bed, with Pennie watching over her. She has been having tiny sips of water through the day, and sipped on about two ounces of Sprite around noon, but so slowly it took her about 30 minutes to finish it. She had literally ONE bite of bread around 4:15-ish, and then threw up around 5:45 (which was the first time post-IV-fluids from last night). She’s still been in & out of the bathroom a lot today, with other issues… If she throws up again, I’m gonna call whoever is the on-call pediatrician at Tally Peds. Luckily, she’s still not had a fever though.

I woke her up around 8pm to transfer her to her own bed, but after a sip of water and walking around a bit, she wasn’t sleepy anymore. So I read aloud to her for a little while, and then we watched about 10 minutes of the Fantasmic musical light show at Hollywood Studios on TikTok live, until she was bored of that and uncomfortable.

So around 9pm, I brought her back to the living room and got her settled on the couch watching 101 Dalmatians. I’ll just let her fall asleep when she’s ready, and figure out how to get her to her own bed later tonight.

My poor girl has still been pretty miserable all day, and when she threw up earlier, it was so pitiful it left us both in tears. I’ve been praying over her and for her all day, and wishing I could take it all away from her. Her and I will be staying home from church tomorrow, and my sweet girl is so sad about missing out on GC Kids. Coincidentally, I wasn’t on the schedule to serve anywhere tomorrow, so at least the timing of that worked out well. Please continue keeping her in your prayers. Really, really hoping she wakes up feeling much better tomorrow. I can’t stand to see my precious girl miserable and uncomfortable for another whole day…