Why You Sweatin Me???

UPDATE: Well all girls are home now. Allie and mom stayed at the hospital last night so Allie could get an IV drip and be monitored for a "liver condition." We will know more in a week. Dad and Brooke stayed at home since Brooke got an IV "head start" on Monday. Both are now full of fluids and have not vomited in almost 24 hrs. Brooke actually drank over 40 oz. of Gatorade by herself today. I wish I could say the same thing for the other end of the twins...I was not aware that a human could make that much stink! Now for the icing...Mom n' Dad both have it! Mom is in bed with a very upset stomach and no appetite and Dad in watching TV with a few "upchucks" under his belt today. And to top it all off...our pediatrician forgot about us at the hospital and went home without releasing Allie. The charge nurse had to call him and remind him!

ORIGINAL POST:
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As for all the rest of us...how was your Memorial day weekend? If it did not include the following items then it was more fun than ours: "IV Fluids", "vomit", "diarrhea", "ER", "5 sticks and still no go with the IV", "blown veins", or "no solid foods since last Thursday!"

Keeping count it goes something like this:
1 - number of girls that are in the ER as I currently right this.
2- number of times Allie threw up in my lap this weekend. And also the number of girls in the ER earlier today.
3 - how many people it takes to hold the girls down while they are administered IV's
4 - days without solid food
5 - times that Allie was poked today trying to find a vein...they all 'blew out' before fluids could be given.


Wrap it up: Girls have been vomiting since Wednesday night. Have have little or no solid food since then...and if so, thrown it up. Only thing that can keep down in Gatorade and that just started today. They both were taken to the ER this morning and spent the next 4 hours hanging out there. Brooke getting IV fluid and Allie, well, just being stuck with needles. She is now with mom at the ER again trying for an IV, which I just got word that they were successful. After 8 tries...Allie is finally getting much needed fluids.

You might ask how it got this far? Well you know that 24/7 phone line that your pediatrician and or insurance company gives you? Well, their advice is what we followed for the last couple of days. Heck, they are Ped's, RN's and other medical professionals. But there is one key element...they can't see our girls, they only can go off what we tell them and then they take the lowest common denominator (they are insurance based after all!) and go from there.