Our trip to the ER

Nelson has had a stomach virus for the last couple of days. It got worse on Tuesday... the poor guy wouldn't eat anything but a few saltine crackers and I did talk him in to half a peanut butter sandwich plus he drank a couple bottles of gatorade. He was on the couch all day and after about 5:00 he was moaning and groaning and telling me he felt like he was going to die. I tried to comfort him for a while and get him to drink more but it didn't help at all. We drove to the fire dept. in J'ville to see James and they checked him out in the back of the ambulance. His poor tummy was hard and while they were checking him he threw up three times. At that point we all agreed he needed to go to the ER. He had the first signs of dehydration and felt awful so off we went. Nelson did think it was cool that daddy got to carry him there in the ambulance (no lights and sirens though, ha!). James also started an IV so they wouldn't have to do it at the hospital. We got there and they took blood & urine and decided yes, he was definitely dehydrated. His blood test also showed that his potassium level was critically low. So, he got lots of fluid and some potassium by IV. After about 20 minutes of fluids we could see his color and life come back. He started talking up a storm and flirting with the nurses and begging for Pizza. He's got to stay on the bland BRAT diet for today though so we'll have pizza tomorrow if he's bowels get back to normal... he's still having trouble but not near as much. Anyway.....Nurse Craig gave him power ranger & hot wheels stickers so he is now Nelson's "best best buddy". And Nurse Shelly (the really cute one!) is now his "best girl friend" because she gave him spider man bandaids. Needless to say, Nelson was a huge hit and in their words, gave them "their Christmas cheer."

This morning... he is bright eyed and bushy tailed... maybe a little too much. HA HA! He's running around being loud and acting crazy. He's excited that he should be able to go to school tomorrow for the Christmas party!