Sidelined By Sickness

Today is day three of a stomach virus. On Friday, I went to the car ahead of her to put her backpack in. I walked back in to find her standing still in a pool of vomit. The poor baby, apparently she had been calling out to me but I didn't hear since I was outside. I was away from her no more than 30 seconds. I don't know if she called out to me before or after it happened. She stayed home from school but felt fine the rest of the day. She had about a 99 degree fever the entire day. The next day she was hungry, waking me up before the sun. She must have eaten too much too soon because she didn't keep it down. I got her to the bathroom in time, but she stood straight up so it missed the target a couple of times. Oh well, clean up of body fluids is part of being a mother. I think she thought by keeping her mouth shut, she could stop it from happening, but it just made the exit when she opened her mouth more explosive. She hovered around 100 degrees this day, and I gave her some Advil. She didn't do much at all, she felt worse than the day before. Today she woke up early, but not as early. I gave her a small amount of food at first. She fell back asleep for a couple of hours and was very perky. I thought it was the end. I gave her more to eat and things were fine. We got ready for church and she was eating some more. I took her temperature and it was a little over 100. I decided that I couldn't contaminate the congregation, so we are home. I am very disappointed. We have Chinese class today, I think that is a no go too. Hopefully I will get some work done today. I am also hoping that today is the last day of this illness so she can go to school tomorrow. She is very upset at missing school. Next week is only a 3 day week anyway. 4 weeks until our last NR re-eval. I am going to continue to update here, because it is important to document the changes after the NR work. NR promises to make the changes it is capable of making, but it doesn't mean that your child will be 100%. It means their potential is at 100%, but there could still be learning disabilities, etc. I don't know what this school year will bring, but I do know we will be prepared. Now that we have completed NR, I know what we have to work with and that I have done all that I can to have her reach her true potential. It feels so good to have it behind us. If you have read this from the beginning, you will know the gravity of what I am about to write. I told S that this time would be the last time we are going to see Bette and she replied, "I want to keep going back to see her and get more exercises!" If you had told me early on that i would be writing that I would have told you that you were crazy. Now that is an accomplishment.