Last week, Lucy puked every day of the week. On our way back home from SC on Monday night, she barfed in the car approximately 20 minutes from home. In Maysville, for crying out loud - two towns away! So we made a quick stop at Dollar General to get towels and cleaning supplies.
Then she puked once a day every day until Saturday she seemed to be back to normal. So she went a full week without throwing up and we figured she was back to normal.
Well, I had George check in on Lucy just before we went to bed and he yelled for me to come in. She threw up everything she'd eaten all day in bed and was basically swimming in about an inch of barf chunks. It was so gross. It was midnight and we had to strip the bed and Clorox it and give a very unhappy Lucy a bath. The funny thing is that Skylar slept through everything, the puking, the cleaning, the water running and baby screaming, and all the lights turned on in the bedroom. Unfortunately, Lucy kept throwing up until she was bringing up green stomach acid. She was really worrying us because she was gagging so much I had this fear that she might have swallowed a small toy or something and choking on it. Sooo..... George woke Sky up and the three of us girls ventured out to the hospital. Skylar was in charge of holding a towel to catch the barf when Lucy got sick on the way to the hospital. Of course, it was the one night we had ice on the roads, so I had to drive about 35 mph the whole way.
We were actually taken into the ER pretty quickly. There were quite a few traffic accident patients in with us. Basically, the doctor thought Lucy had a bad stomach virus. She was pretty dehydrated, so they gave her an IV and Zofran to stop the vomiting. It was sad because they had to strap her arm to a board to keep her from yanking out the IV. She did really well as long as I had her arm covered with a blanket and she couldn't see it. She was pretty ticked off at the nurses after the IV episode and would only glare at them and the doctor, even when they tried to make her smile.
I just held her for several hours while she rehydrated. Eventually, she perked up enough to play the "Mouth, nose, eyes" game and blow me kisses. She was so sweet. After awhile, the doctor gave her ginger ale with Pedialyte to drink and some crackers. She drank a little of the liquid, but mostly just dipped the straw in and out of the cup and drank the drops. She tried a bite or two of cracker. Finally, we were released once the doctor was sure Lucy had had a wet diaper.
Skylar and I were starving and exhausted, so we stopped at the 24-hour McDonalds drive-thru for a drink and a McGriddle sandwich. We finally got home around 5am and put Lucy to bed. She had fallen asleep almost as soon as we strapped her into her carseat. She was happy to get into her own bed and we all slept in until noon, except the boys.