I realized that many of you may have heard that heath was sick and not know much else, so i am doing a quick blog update--and will do more later. i am home taking a shower after a night in the hospital with heath. he is doing much better.
back story--on sunday morning he woke up with a fever. there is a virus (or a couple we now know) going around right now, so it made sense that he had picked it up now that we are more "out in the world." at first he still seemed ok so we thought it would just run its course. by day 4 he was not eating or drinking much of anything, was throwing up here and there and was pretty lethargic. but he would rally each night a bit and we would think he was turning a corner. finally, yesterday afternoon, we made the decision, with our wonderful pedatrician, to take him to the ED at duke to get some fluids. we were told to plan to stay overnight so they could monitor him.
turns out he was really dehydrated. and, he has some weird strain (I say weird because i can't pronounce it) of hand, foot and mouth disease. he only has the fever and throat ulcers, though. he has been a pretty sick dude, but we're hoping with fluids he will start bouncing back pretty quickly. this morning he was ASKING for a sip of the drink we had for him, which was great. AND, he had enough energy to do his "almost done" repeating thing in a very mad voice the whole time they were doing his vitals, which was also a good sign.
SO, they have to run the regular tests that they run on heart transplant kids who get sick as well as the regular tests that they run on kids who have this virus, and hopefully we'll be home this afternoon or tomorrow. we shall see.
chris is getting ready to pull into the hospital. he has been in decatur all week doing his last 2-week dmin class. eb has been spending the week with mimi and papa and at clubs at montreat, so she luckily had a great time and didn't have to deal with the sickness of the week. mom, strow and sarah have been wonderful caregivers. whew.
i will write more later today with details. thanks so much for your prayers.
love, carrie
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Carrie: I had no idea. We will hold you in our prayers. Ryan got that hand, foot and mouth thing too when he was heath's age. We will pray for a quick recovery. I hope to see y'all soon up here.
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