Friday, September 12, 2008

Sick again

Many of you know that our sweet Emma Caroline has dealt with stomach problems since she was 2. She has been hospitalized once before for dehydration and has come really close to it several other times. We have scratched our heads over this problem and have never been given any good answers. Well, the sickness struck again last Thursday morning. I called our new Dr for a appointment. I wanted her to see it first hand in hopes that she would run tests or send me to a specialist. She took some blood and called me 2 hours later and said that EC was already dehydrated and we needed to take her to the ER. My wonderful friend Beth went with me and we spent the next 4 hours in the ER. They gave her nausea medicine and a liter of fluid by IV and sent us home. But EC immediately got sick again. She did sleep through the night but still couldn't keep anything down in the morning. So I called the Dr. and they admitted her into the hospital. The Dr on call agreed that this was not viral and not normal and wanted to run a bunch of tests to find what was really causing this. So first she had a CT scan and then an MRI to rule out anything wrong in her brain. THANKFULLY nothing was wrong there. So they drew more blood for other tests but we won't get those results for a week. After several hours of fluids and sleep and then some crackers, EC started to perk up. Once she turns that corner she gets back to herself very quickly. They let us go home late Saturday afternoon. Many of you knew about this and have been praying. We can not tell you how encouraging that has been to us. We are so thankful for friends who pray and for our Heavenly Father who hears and answers. I will keep y'all updated when we hear back from the tests. I guess the only think I would ask you to pray for now is that we would get answers so that we can help EC not have this problem anymore.

5 comments:

Aimee said...

You know we'll be praying for you and EC and for answers. May the Lord provide good news :)

Anonymous said...

We will definitely be praying for you all. I'm so sorry you are going through this. We love you very much!
Abby

Unknown said...

Hey My Friend,
I am so glad and thankful to our Father that EC is doing well. Know that I will continue to pray for your family. I am so thankful that you are in a body of believers that is helping you during this time. Keep us posted! Love, Alicia

The O'Brien Family said...

That is my prayer.

Heath and Nikki said...

We will definitely be praying too. I am so thankful you already have great friends to surround you in this time of need. Keep us posted :)

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