A yucky day

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Things have been crazy and I have been working a lot.
The title of this post is a yucky day. Actually, it was a yucky weekend. There has been a stomach bug going around in school, and Bob was a lucky winner of the stomach virus. It started at three in the morning and ended late Sunday morning. I did take him to the pediatrician's emergency office hours on Sunday morning because Bob started running a low grade temperature. The pediatrician gave us some more tips, and if he lost more weight by Monday morning, then he would need IV fluids. Bob weighed 33.5 pounds last week. He was down to 29.5 pounds on Monday morning, but he was holding down fluids by then, so I decided that I did not want to put him through the trauma of getting an IV. The damage Bob did to the rugs from throwing up was worse than Q. We are going to rent the Rug Doctor again tomorrow. At least we have leftover shampoo.

I do have to say that Bob is so skinny now. He looks like the pictures of Ethiopian children that you saw on TV in the eighties. He doesn't have the distended belly, but his ribcage and his sternum sticks out. I tried to get him to drink Pediasure, but he won't drink it. I now mix it half pediasure and half (chocolate) ovaltine milk, and he drinks it. There is underweight, and there is anorexic. Bob looks anorexic. 29.5 pounds is too tiny for a 38 inch body. He is three and a half and is still wearing 2T clothes. Most of his pants are too short because 2 year olds are a lot shorter than Bob. 3T fits him height wise, but then he has to pull up his pants up every other step. At least shorts fit him.

I have to get going. Bob wants to play. I will try to post again a lot sooner that I did this last time.