Wednesday

Lilly hasn't been feeling too good. She threw up on Mark Tuesday night - got him real good. All down his gray t-shirt and onto the floor. Mark saw it coming and in an act of bravery and practicality, spared the rug and threw himself into the spray. Easier to clean himself than the rug. I concur.

Anyway, we called the pediatrician yesterday, and Dr. Gorman said that it could be the stomach virus that's apparently being passed around New Orleans. She said to look out for diarrhea. If Lilly had that, then we knew it was the virus. Dr. G also said to call her immediately if Lilly threw up again, or had a projectile, forceful spit up, as that could indicate a problem with the stomach and colon. Apparently they might be fusing together. And the last thing it could be, and appears to be, is that Lilly has had a build up of mucus (really, my child have lot's of mucus? Who would have thought?) and that it's hindering her breathing after she eats, which is making it hard for her to eat and digest, so she could be overeating or just taking it in wrong. After she eats she tends to have a labored, almost wheezing like breathing, and Dr. G thinks its a build of mucus. So she said to put saline nasal spray in her nose and that should start clearing it out.

So on his way home last night, Mark picked up Little Noses Saline Spray and we then squirted it up her noise. Boy was not happy. It definitely took her by surprise, she gave a little jerk, opened her eyes, real wide, and then started to scream and cry. It definitely took us by surprise and we almost wanted to stop - as this was making her uncomfortable, but we could hear the mucus clearing and then Mark used the bulb (the best - from the hospital) to clear out what remained - and that made her even angrier. But we did it a couple of times - the dosage said use it 2-6 times, we did twice each time, I can't imagine, or maybe I am just a wimp, using it on her 6 times. She gets so sad and angry with just 2 times! I don't know if my ear drums and let's face it, my heart, could take it for an additional 4 times.

But she was exhausted last night. She went down at 9 and awoke at 2. I fed her and she went back down at 3 and slept until a little before 7. She was definitely better this morning, more alert. Well, happier that is until we started in with the saline nasal spray!