Daisy has been having stomach problems since February. Eight weeks ago she was having stomach blotting around every three days and her stomach would get as hard as a rock, she would end up throwing up and have diarrhea (actually, I would say liquid stools, there was substance, but no form just a plop of stool). After a couple weeks we talked to the doctor about it and we were thinking she could be allergic to dairy. So we stopped giving her dairy and the problem went down to only once a week. We felt we found the problem and maybe just needed to get more perfect on her diet. Daisy has lost 2 lbs. since February. When she was around 18 months she was normal on the growth chart now she is at %5 for her weight. On Monday she received a vaccination (which we started her vaccines in Feb.) after her Mondays vaccine she started getting a normal temperature, but by Tuesday the temps had not gone away without repeat pain reliever and her temp reached 103.5 so we brought her back to the doctors. The doctor said she might just be having a little reaction, but since she is acting alright (besides a fever) we just needed to continue with pain reliever switching off from Tylenol and Motrin every 3 hrs. On Wednesday she started throwing up more and I asked to do some blood work. Thursday her blood work came back and was all wacky. Her white blood count was high and other levels in her blood work were off.Doctor said to keep her posted on Daisy's behavior; throughout the day Daisy wasn't wanting to eat and wasn't keeping anything down. I called the doctor and she decided we need to go to the hospital. In the hospital they placed her on an iv and gave her an antibiotic that fights infection. They did a chest x-ray, stomach x-ray, tested her for RSV, Influence, Strep, urine and stool test, and did new blood work the next day. We also saw a GI specialists (stomach allergy doctor) and did some blood work. Well everything came back negative except the chest x-ray had some fluid in her lungs,(the allergy test won't be back for another week) and the blood work showed that the white blood count was going down significantly. The blood work showed she was still a little dehydrated, but for the most part gave no real answers. They were going to release us (that doctor didn't think we needed to be there), but Daisy threw up when we were getting ready to leave. So they decided to keep us another night. Saturday's doctor was awesome and on top of the situation, but still couldn't give us many answers. Her 2nd chest x-ray showed more fluid in her lungs so they changed her antibiotic and treated her for pneumonia. Since her white blood count was coming down and hadn't had a fever since Friday he decided to take her off the IV to see if she would continue to drink and keep down her fluids. She drank enough and kept her food down (with just one little throw up at 3:00) so we were able to leave at 7:30. When we got home at around 9:30 she threw up a lot again. Today she has some more color and has kept her food down. Also, while in the hospital we gave her all kinds of food and her stomach didn't have any blotting, so we have continued to allow her to eat whatever until we find out further from the GI specialist next week. As long as she is keeping hydrated and having no fevers we don't need to "worry". I still find it very strange that we are treating her for pneumonia, but she is still throwing up, but I do believe she could have that on top of a bigger problem. Since her white blood count is dropping it shows she is doing better. Which she is looking and acting much better, but it's stressful not knowing. We have a few thoughts of what it could be from google (crohn's disease is what we currently are thinking, we thought maybe dairy allergy or even celiac disease, just not sure). We are hoping to find out more answers from the GI doctor next week.
Since Daisy was in the hospital, I sadly missed Max's Birthday. I didn't mind being in the hospital for my birthday, but missing my son's birthday was hard. Good thing his party was ALL BOY and so I sent Danny home to do the party on his own, which I knew he would do fantastic! The theme was an out door camp/boy scout party. They built a fire, tied knots, did archery shooting, roasted hot dogs (ran out of time for samores), had root bear floats and opened presents. The thing Danny missed was pictures (he did get this 1) and singing Happy Birthday (I guess those are things us moms would never forget), but most importantly Max had a wonderful birthday! Happy Birthday Max we love you!
(This picture was taken the day after Daisy returned home from the hospital. Still looked pretty sick.)
Walt had started out real slow when he began looking for eggs, then he got a hang of things and then it clicked and he started running and screaming. He got so excited he started jumping up and down and all his eggs came flying out of his basket. It was too funny!
At the reception my nephew Baxter was playing on the water slide (of course we didn't notice) and in his brand new suit he fell in the pool. He was so cute and it was truly so funny, I couldn't help myself from laughing while my sister was trying to tell him that was a naughty thing to do. We had a great weekend. 
While I was in CA Danny and the boys were busy. They built this triple bunk bed, cool huh?! They put in a water softener we just got for almost free and they built a box for it to sit on and put up new lights in the laundry room. It was a wonderful surprise to come home to. Maybe I should go out of town more often.:)
