What Day Is It?

Greetings from Dell Childrens Hospital.

It's the longest story ever how we ended up here, and I don't even know what day it is because they've all run together ever since Lauren got sick last Saturday. At our third trip to the ER, they sent her here. It was absolutely nightmarish trying to get her pain managed, but finally at 2 pm today, it happened. My God, what a relief for her.

They should have the virus identified tomorrow morning. Her mouth infection is about the same- utterly awful- but we are just so happy to see her sleep after staying up three days straight. She still isn't able to eat, so in addition to her IV meds, they have her on what she calls her "banana bag" with potassium and dextrose. Breakfast of champions.

I've discovered you can get away with just about ANY statement or behavior by explaining that you are operating on a serious lack of sleep. I haven't been able to purposely abuse this to my advantage, because I'm not very clever when I am operating on a serious lack of sleep.

Thank you for your prayers and positive thoughts. She'll probably be here at least through Friday.