The ER

Well, sometimes things don't go as planned.  This past week/weekend was one of those times!  It was MEA last week, and Sara's was closed all week and Ella only had preschool on Monday and Wednesday.  So, we had time off early in the week and then Jolyn was going to watch Ella for us on Wednesday and Thursday, leading into a kid-free weekend including clay shootin' at the Horse & Hunt Club (WHAAA?!?!), a movie, and a wedding on Saturday.  Well, scratch all that!  Ella got sick Wednesday morning and it all went downhill from there.  We thought it was another episode of her random "get sick and go play" events, but this time no such luck.  Long story short, we ended up in the ER Friday morning and spent the entire morning there, ended up being admitted and discharged later Friday night, all due to a stomach virus which caused little Ms. Ella to become pretty significantly dehydrated.  Boo.  It was a pretty crazy time for all of us.

 Yeah....getting an IV in a 4 year old isn't fun

Poor peanut!

A funny piece of info:  Ella had an IV (obviously) but anyway, the tape they used for it was ripped off by the nurse before we self-discharged ourselves (more on that in a minute), so now Ms. Ella refuses to let us take off the BAND-AID they put on after taking out the IV.  She might be traumatized for life, and the Tweety Bird band-aid might stay on until she's 21.  :)  Also funny, on Saturday, Ella didn't want to use her arm that the IV was in.  She said she couldn't use it because of the bandage.  Oh boy.  She just let it hang there - limp arm.  It was pretty funny.

Okay, discharging ourselves.  So, they wanted Ella to go to the bathroom before they'd let us leave.  Well, we all know the issues Ms. E has with the bathroom.  Jay & I knew after about an hour of trying to get her to go (promising all sorts of things), there was no way it was going to happen.  So, we told the nurse about it and asked if we could just go, la la la...well, they wanted the doctor to see her one more time (the doctor wasn't going to be in for another 1/2 hour).  Jay told them no, we're leaving now!  Yikes....didn't want to be arguing, but at this point, we'd all had enough.  Ella was SO exhausted and we hadn't eaten anything all day.  Good thing we didn't wait.  Ella was sleeping almost as soon as she hit the couch, and slept through until  7 a.m. the next morning.  She went to the bathroom and things have seemingly returned to normal at the Abbas house.  Now I just need to reschedule a time to go shootin' clay pigeons!  :)