Our holiday from hell

We finally made it home.I will try to make this quick and painless for you, because it wasn't for me :)

Original Plan: Last wed drive to aj's parents house, christmas around 10am AJ takes me and Gavin to airport to Denver to meet up with my parents and sisters.Fly back monday, make it back to MO by monday eve, AJ goes back to work tues and I have first baby appt tues.

What REALLY happened:
Wed-drove to Miami Oklahoma (hour and a half from our house) All is well, excellent Christmas dinner, great presents, check. (make a note that the day before, I took Gavin to the pediatricians office for a checkup which did NOT have seperate well child/sick child areas.They slashed his finger for a lead test and he got blood EVERYWHERE while he was freaking out.Then they gave him an MMR)

Thursday (Christmas): 6am we hear Gavin gulping down his drink in his bed, then puke it up everywhere.We clean it up and thinking it's just a fluke, go on with plans to fly out that day. I'm feeling really nauseated but assuming it's normal pregnancy stuff. Get car loaded up for our hour and a half drive to the airport (which makes it a total of 3 hours from our house in MO).2 miles down the freeway Gavin throws up all over.Pull over to clean up, I bawl all the way back.

Friday: Flight gets switched and I still make plans for Denver, but unfortunately without Gavin. He'd be with AJ and AJ's mom who is a nurse, I feel comfort he is in good hands and he was showing signs of improvement. I say goodbye to Gavin, bawl again, then AJ takes me to the airport.

Descent of my flight I reach for barf bag buuuut don't need it.Nausea doesn't end after the escallators, tram to baggage claim, then car ride to Olive Garden where all 15 of the family met for dinner.

Great dinner, lots of fun, but tummy still isn't settling.I go to bathroom just to 'check out' what my body wants to do annnnd I lose my dinner.(And I can never eat at olive garden again).Thinking mine was a fluke too, go on thinking it was the nausea.By the time we drove to my sisters house I had to dart for her bathroom and the weekend was downhill from there. I was so grateful to be able to get a blessing at my sisters house.

Back at home, where Aj had brought his mom and brother with him, Gavin is still throwing up but it's ONLY when he's sleeping/laying down, he's acting fine, drinking fluids, but losing it all after or during a nap or bedtime.Now AJ's brother is running to the bathroom several times to heave (I'm trying not to make you all nauseous just by reading this).Aj is now in bed fighting the symptoms but hasn't 'lost' anything yet.Aj and his mom cover the overnight shift, going between changing Gavin's sheets, and helping Neil.Aj's mom slept on Gavins floor, blanket and pillow.

At the hotel in Denver,I'm in a nice bed I can't even get comfortable in, crawling from the bathroom to the bed all night.No fever for any of us-this whole thing we all got was no flu, we got our flu shots.This thing sucked, it's killer on the stomach. I'm trying to keep fluids going and worrying about how the baby at home is and the baby I'm carrying.

Saturday: I'm in bed at hotel all day, the fam all goes to downtown Denver for a big fun lunch at a brazillian place.I hang out with the porcelain.Only am able to eat bagle crumbs from breakfast and a few nuggets later. In missouri, same story as day before.After talking to AJ a few times I remember to tell him Happy Birthday.His worst one ever.

Sunday: I'm not hanging out with the porcelain anymore, just feeling like a cancer patient, trying to regain strength, weak, no appetite.I got to spend a few hours with my sisters before they headed back to SLC.I also got to spend a wonderful evening at my sister's house having dinner and watching Westside Story.Then went back to the hotel that night to rest for my flight the next day.I get late night texts and calls-Gavin gets worse, his tummy is rock hard and puffy, AJ takes him to the ER at the hospital in Miami, OK (where his parents live). After hours of waiting, and blood drawn and redrawn, and IV in him, the xray shows (from what I understood), tons of gas in his stomach, but the virus had caused all the throwing up which caused some sort of intestinal swelling the wasn't letting gas out or food to process through, so he'd throw up, making everything worse.So the IV gave him fluids he could keep down, helping the swelling to go down, allowing gas/food to go through. Dr said he will 'deflate' over the next few days.

Monday:AJ and his mom stay at he hospital with Gavin sunday night, I fly in monday afternoon and United loses my bag, after I paid $15 for my 'bag fee' and say I will get it that night, I give them AJ's parents address.AJ and I stayed with him monday night.I'm NOT a fan of the hospital, that place is depressing and I swear it makes you sicker!

Tuesday:Blood drawn again at 5am, nurses walk right in, turn on light, get out needles.Gavin is screaming already.Gavin is discharged around noon and at 12:15 he throws up his juice all over the floor.I thought I don't care I am taking this kid home.But luckily the dr said it's still ok to take him home.Whew.Other good news is even though we were out of the state, this hospital was IN network.Very good news. I had to reschedule my first baby appt to next week.AJ had to take off a few days of work.

We get everyone back to AJ's parents house to pack up and go and AJ gets really sick.
I check status of my bag and they said they send it fed ex, fed ex says they JUST got bag and I will have it by wednesday around noon.Mind you-we would be in springfield by now but can't change the address fed ex has.I HATE UNITED.

Wednesday(today): We made it home last night and I've never been more excited to take a shower after a plane ride, hospital stay, bleh... Gavin slept til 7 this morning and he's been doing fine.His stomach feels less tight and he has a better appetite, but I'm still keeping him on soft foods and baby food. His energy isn't up to par but that was expected and I'm kinda enjoying it :)Dr said all is well as long as he doesn't throw up anymore, it may mean the swelling in tummy may be called an illius (sp?) and we'd need to go back in.Crossing my fingers things stay this good! Aj is in bed recovering. And I'm using the energy I have to get the house back in order!And blog of course.....still waiting on my bag, I'm gonna have to meet AJ's mom halfway tomorrow or something.I don't even have a single brush in this house!Talk about feeling pretty....

Sorry for the novel but everyone has been asking and I didn't want to leave out any details! I don't know how my husband survived the weekend without me, even though I wouldn't have been much help anyway,and I don't know what I would have done without the help of his family, especially his mom.I'm going to look into changing pediatricians to one that has a seperate well child area and never go to the dr before a trip to avoid unecessary diseases.

Hope you all had a wonderful and healthy Christmas!And happy new year!

*update as of wednesday night: Gavins tummy is as bloated as an Ethiopian child.He hasn't pooped or had diarrea, which the dr said he's supposed to have for the next few days.His stomach is really hard and puffed out.Bad sign, but crossing our fingers everything works itself out tonight.If he doesn't 'deflate' then the intestinal swelling is still there (called an Ileus) and we'd have to go back to the hospital but this time they'd shove a tube down his nose to his stomach to feed him. Please not that......please keep him in your prayers tonight, I don't how we could handle seeing him like that...