“Take her to the nearest hospital”

Yesterday was quite the eventful day.  My little porker who usually eats every 2 hours refused to eat yesterday.  She ate first thing in the morning, and then refused to eat after that. She ate her cereal like normal, but wouldn’t take a bottle and wouldn’t nurse.  I called her pediatrician around 6:00 and told them what she had been doing because I was worried she may get dehydrated.  She didn’t have nearly as many wet diapers and when they were wet they were barely wet at all.  The nurse got back on the phone after talking to the doctor and said “take her to the nearest hospital and tell them she isn’t eating”.  If you want to make me panic, say those words to me! Scott was at a basketball game coaching. I tried calling him and of course he didn’t answer so I had to try to call anyone who might be at the game.  Danny (our associate pastor) was able to get ahold of someone at the game for me and Scott had to leave in the middle of his basketball game to come.  I should say for those that don’t know that we only have one vehicle and one carseat that she can safely ride in, so it wasn’t like I could just call up anyone to drive us up there.  We got there and apparently all of Dearborn was in the Emergency Room because it was SO packed.  A man was kind enough to let us cut in front of him in line since we had a baby. Once she got into a room she was all giggly and smiley so they all thought we were nuts for bringing her in.  They looked at her and she wasn’t showing any signs of dehydration and her lungs and heart sounded fine.  I was able to get her to eat (FINALLY) while we were there so they sent us home and said to just keep an eye on her.  Thankfully this morning she ate like normal.  She slept all night, only waking once long enough for me to put her pacifier in her mouth, and is down for a nap already.
It was terrifying just having to TAKE her to the hospital and I am so glad that they didn’t have to do anything to her.  I am grateful to be blessed with a healthy baby!!
Oh yeah, and SHE POOPED last night!! Hooray! haha!