Xuanie got the stomach flu. Started vomiting last Fri afternoon, and could not keep anything down for the next 4 days. Went in to Emergency Care once. Got 2 calls by the Health Services twice to bring him in. The second call came in this noon, I replied that I didn’t have the car today. When I hung up, I wondered if the nurse thought I must be a crazy mom, allowing her son to be on the verge of dehydration and still refusing to bring him in.
Little X. refused to drink nor eat because he associated them with throwing up. When I finally brought him into the doctor’s, they were relieved for he was not dehydrated. But the doctor strongly encouraged me to be more positive and to work harder to get food and drink into X., who has fallen off the charts in his weight curve. The doctor even said that if X. loses any more weight, he will have to admit X. in the hospital for intravenous feeding. (Ask anyone who’s seen me try to feed him, I am a super food-conscious mom, but X. seems to have some genetic streak in him that causes him to simply not like food/eating, except broccoli and rice.)
Poor little baby – you can see his rib-cage now, both front and back, and his little arms are like tooth-picks. Still he tries to play and continues to be super hardworking and helpful, e.g. helping me wash his soiled clothes.
I hope he’ll always be a happy guy, in sickness and in health.
