Inconsolable

Oh

She got her first REAL sickness.

She began with projectile vomiting on Friday night while we were on our way to dinner. We turned around, went home, changed her clothes and tried to go out again.
We got further down the road when she started vomiting again.

Dinner was canceled and my seventh circle of hell began.
She spiked a fever that night of 102, then began the diarrhea. She was understandably not happy with life. Tabitha didn't want to eat anything and all she did was cry (more like scream and wail) or sleep. Most of the times, she would wake screaming and continue to do so until it was time to go back to sleep again a few hours later.
Her fever continues and the situation gets worse.
I start having to change her diaper every 45 min to an hour.
If I take longer than that, it is a scary monster movie mess....I dont need to describe you, you know what I mean.
The acidy poop burns the skin on her bottom and she gets the unholy diaper rash that you only see in medical books.
I start trying EACH and EVERY home remedy that anyone has ever suggested to me.
Cornstarch...check
zinc oxide...check
aquaphor...check
triple paste...check
Maalox...check
Desitin...check
Butt Paste...check
A disgusting concoction of all of the above....quadruple check

If someone told me to smash up snails and put them on her butt, I would have.
Thankfully, no one actually said that to me.

The only time that she was happy or even cracked a small bit of a smile was in the bath.
That was, until she diarrheas in it, then that had to stop too.

It got so bad that I would come at her with a diaper and she would start screaming just to LOOK at me.

I decided to take her to the pediatrician for the 2nd time that week. She had just been in for her well-baby check on Thursday (weighing in at a whopping 20lbs 2oz).

In three days she has lost 1.5 pounds. The ped was concerned and almost considered keeping her in the hospital for dehydration. I had only managed to get about 10oz of pedialyte in her the previous day and that day wasn't looking much better. She had a diaper rash that looked as if it was going to start bleeding any moment AND AN EAR INFECTION.
She never pulled or tugged at her ear at all, I never would have guessed that she had an ear infection on top of everything else.
I felt so bad.

She is now on Nystatin for her butt
and anti-biotics for her ear.

I have my fingers crossed that she will be well soon, I need some sleep.

Oh, and now I think that I have it too.