Father of the Year…Again
We had Jack this weekend. It started out great. Everybody was healty-ish. We made pizza. He won his 2nd baseball game. We played Putt-Putt. There was a lot of Wii. It was a pretty good weekend. Until Sunday.
Jack has a tendency to have sudden illness when he doesn’t want to do something or when he’s sucking at an activity. If he has a bad day at baseball, it’s because his stomach hurts. It’s never because he isn’t paying attention. It’s never because he’s just being 7. It’s a headache…or a pain in his leg…or a tumor.
So when he was having a stomach attack while not being able to throw a Frisbee, I figured it was just his way of saying he wanted to play Wii more than Frisbee. So, Sarah and I said, we’ll go back home, but no Wii.
He seemed fine when we got home, we joked around, until it was time to go look at a house we were thinking about buying. Suddenly his stomach ache came back. Again, because we were making him do something he didn’t want to do.
Let’s skip ahead to today…for dramatic effect. The ER doctor decided he didn’t need an IV if he could keep his sprite down and pass urine at the hospital. That’s right. We were maybe 3 miles from the house when up came is breakfast. It was like that through the night at his mom’s house. His doctor was afraid he might be dehydrated today, so she had the bio-mom take him to the ER. He didn’t get an IV and seems to be doing much better.
My instincts are awesome at times.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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April 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
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April 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
You’re totally normal… I let Elyse puke (with same bug PLUS kidney infection) for 2 days before taking her to the doc. If we jumped every time they puked, well, we’d be really poor!
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 am
Yes, BRYAN is totally normal. He is the normal parent there. BUT I’M NOT SAYING ANYTHING..
April 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
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