The Stewie Family: March 2009

If you told me last year - next year at this time you will have a 2 month old daughter (I wouldn't have believed you).... If you told me that same daughter and I would be confined to room at Rainbows Babies & Children's Hospital for 5 days for a possible Spinal Menigidus case, I would have really (Ahahahaha) laughed at you!!

Unfortunately, that is were Aryonna and I stayed for 5 days. Thursday was our last normal day. Friday she woke up OK. She got fussy that afternoon. Didn't think much of it since she has acid reflux and just got her 2 month old shots. I was up ALL night with her walking back & fourth (David joked I looked like Scott) her ALL night. I remember letting David sleep and telling him he will have to return the favor in the morning. So here it was Saturday morning she fell asleep... so I joined her!

At 3:00 pm we woke up... She was SCREAMING and HUNGRY as hell but wouldn't eat. I wiped a puddle full of tears that felled eyes and I figured it was an ear infection... And decided to take her to Urgent Care for an antibotic or something! I've had ear infections before so I wanted to get her relieve ASAP! So I didn't even bother getting ready, just got dressed and left!

Several hours later, I had to make a phone call to David. Try to make a phone call to a father sitting at home with the kids waiting for you to come back any minute and tell him to come pick up the carseat & stroller because we will be rushed to Rainbows Hospital vis ambulance. Yeah, no nice way of putting it!!

She has became dehydrated so bad & fast that she didn't have anymore tears. Yeah at home she had a ton of them. I was wiping them away! Her body was starting to shut down things like kidneys. We got to Rainbow's and was taken directly to Intensive Care. Everyone rushed around her and started doing stuff. Each one had a job to do and had been waiting for us. It was just like you seen on TV. Except this was real life and this was MY LITTLE GIRL!! And this all happened so FAST... This was supposed to be something simple like an ear infection!! WTH?!

After a short time a few doctors confronted us and told us we would need to authorize them to do a spinal tap on her. WHAT! That's a bit much... they wanted to check her for MANY different infections and start treatment. Apparently she had some symptoms of Spinal Menigidus. And if left untreated our little girl would get up deaf at the very least, brain dead or even die. I was so upset and unhappy I could not even sign the paper, David had to do it! We had to make sure the resident (doctor that is training) would sit this one out. We little girl and know how serious a spinal tap is. We had Caleb with us so we were sent to the waiting room, while the tried to do the spinal tap. It sucked because it was late at night (dark) and we could see out the waiting room window into her room window. Toward the end I could see them all smiling... Later on, I realized it was probably because 5 grown-ups could not hold down one little bitty baby long enough to poke her back. They started her on antibiotic to treat it and said they would try again in the morning with completely different crew and put her to sleep while they do it. We had to stay in there until the 48 hour results came back negative.

The cleaning lady gave me my favorite colored bear!

48 hours later...
The FIRST vile showed more blood cells (but still normal) so they wanted to keep us until the 72 hour results were back, even though her last antibiotic was the night before. Which mad me extremely mad. I got absolutely NO sleep while we were there. Aryonna was hooked up to all these wires and tubes. It was hard to pick her up. It was hard to change her diapers. And it was extremely hard to breastfeed her! It was hard as hell being a mother and seeing my little baby with so many tubes, wires, and machines hooked her to her itty bitty baby, it hurt the heart!

To make things even tougher, nobody was alot to come see us, except those who lived with us and who was already exposed to her. We could not leave the room without her. Doctors and nurses were mask in the room for the first few days. And to top in all off I had to stay there all ALONE for 99% of the time because Myah got sick and David had to stay home with her. Nobody could watch her since she had gotten REALLY sick. David kept running stuff out to me everyday but he could never stay long enough to feel the void. Just long enough to give me a Mt Dew (something the hospital had NONE of) a kiss and then leave. The day before we left I made him bring Myah in and talk to the doctor about getting us home sooner after my failed attempt. We couldn't just walk out with her we had to be buzzed both in and out! Or we would have just walked out with her!!

The nurse have mommy green hospital socks to match me!

We spent St. Patric's Day in there. David surprised us by bring her the green t-shirt I bought for her to were before she got sick! It made me happy and sad!!! I was happy he remembered I bought it (when I didn't) and thought to let her were a fun shirt instead of a boring white hospital one. I was sad because that meant we would be there a whole another day!! Thankfully the next morning I was able to take it off her and go home!!

We had a "Team" of doctors. Like seriously 10 of them would come and talk to me and there was a hole other team besides them. The infectious disease team. I never thought she had Menigidus. And it was proven she didn't. The whole stay was to pretty much just to eliminate that as a possibility. We ended up leaving not even knowing for sure what the cause was. I know in my heart it was that damn Rotavirus vaccine she got on Tuesday. NEVER AGAIN will she get that!! They said they tested her for other stuff too but the results were not back yet. And they would not call us for any of the results either since they are for things they don't treat them for. I tole them I wanted to know!! So we will see!!

I felt like I was bring home a newborn again... I was looking forward to going back to normal life but nervous to have a (sick) baby at home. It felt good as hell to be home! Aryonna kept looking around!!! She loves looking at our living room clock. While we where in the hospital she would not look at the one there for nothing.... As soon as she spotted our clock she smiled and stared at it for a good 5 minutes!!!

Over all Rainbow's was not all that it was cracked up to be. I was not thrilled with the amount of people who were training... and all the people who came in to see us wanting to do experimetal things to my sick baby that was not even to treat her. Some of the people looked like they were just released from prison and found a job there. The nurses would not listen when they messed up her charts and give her the wrong medications. They wouldn't answer the call button... OR they would come in turn it off and walk right back out like I pushed it for NOTHING!! One nurse kept taking Aryonna's blood pressure (or should I say TRIED), every time her foot looked like it was going to POP off. It turned purple and she would start crying. I had to take it off her once and told her not to "try" again. While we were there they had a fire drill... The freaking bug guy came in to spray the room! Who knows maybe I was just there during a bad time. But it was not as GREAT as I always heard it was supposed to be! There are a lot more things I could talk about but I need to tend to her now!

The View!

I swear the last two months have flown by! I can not believe I'm already writing about Aryonna turning two months old! She is getting so big. I see the difference and I'm around her everyday.

She is lifting her head up like mini sit-ups and she is cooing and smiling like crazy! I love her little voice. It's the sweetest little sound ever! Every morning I wake up to a GREAT big smile! And that is awesome. She has a beautiful toothless smile! She don't like cuddling. She already thinks she is a big girl and wants you to help her stand up. Go figure, all my kids have been that way!

She still has acid reflux. Some days are better than others. We attempted to change her medicine and that was hell. Her eyes are still blueish so I'm still crossing my fingers and hoping they will be like Big sis Myah's! Wouldn't that be cool. Two brown eye parents having two blue eye girls! I see a few things here and there that she got from me but there is no doubt she looks like Daddy! But that's OK!! Plus I have a mini me already!!

This week she batted at her bouncy seat toy. Just once and she was like WOW how did I do that! Her thing the last several days is looking at the clock. She loves that thing!! She turns her head back & forth real fast if she can't see it. It's really funny!! I should try to catch it on video!!

Caleb & Myah adore her. Caleb is obsessed with her head & hair... lol just like Uncle! And just likes to be in her presents he likes to lay next to her in the floor! Myah loves when she coos, smiles or even just looks at her! She loves getting her attention and is dying to share her room with her lil sis!

She is awake a lot more these days. She takes several cat naps throughout the day but for the most part she's afraid she will miss something. If you see me in Walmart I most likely will be sportin my nosy 2 month old!! LOL

She still LOVES her swing. That is mostly were she sleeps. If you are looking for a stock to buy, get Duracell! Her swing sucks up a TON of them!! We spend as much in batteries as we do for diapers. I don't know what I hate changing more!!