Saturday morning (after having had no sleep whatsoever) I took her into the emergency ward. She had calmed down but she still had a fever and she just looked dopey, she wasnt her usual curious, smiley self. The thing that really worried me was that her fontanelle was bulging a bit (you could see it when you looked at her).
They did some tests (blood, some kind of snot test & urine which took me FOREVER to get!) & everything came back ok & they put her on fluids which perked her up & she actually started smiling again which was wonderful. They kept her in over night for observation just to make sure that it wasn't something more sinister than the flu.
I had forgotten what it was like to stay overnight in a hospital, the last time i did was the day Jet was born. We were in a room with 3 other kids, parents & nurses coming in and out. All the kids were hooked up to fluids and a machine that beeped if they moved & kinked their tube....which seemed to happen at least every half hour. The lights were on in the hallway & people had their TV's on which made lots of flashing lights. Prior to having kids im sure i would have slept ok, but now im kind of hormonally geared to wake up to little noises, so i really didnt get much sleep at all! Vi has never slept in a cot before so she wasn't too pleased at the concept and ended up in bed with me (not sure how happy the nurses were about that). I had my laptop with me & spent most of the night watching a show i had on it called "Awake" which i found quite funny when i thought about it at about 1am (which would have been about my 43rd hour with less than an hours sleep).
They wouldn't let us out of their the next day until the doctors came around which wasn't until about 12:30pm, by then i was so completely exhausted that i just broke down in tears & everyone must have thought i was a complete lunatic, especially since Vi was back to her bright bubbly self, with just a bit of a cough & a runny nose, smiling at anyone that came near her, she even gave out a few giggles.
Anyway, we are back home now & Vi still has a snotty nose, a cough & her voice sounds all funny but no fever & she looks like she is on the mend....& ive had a good nights sleep, which makes a world of difference :)
