Poor Kid!

This weekend has pretty much sucked. Poor Jake has been sick since Friday with a nasty viral bug that turned into gastroenteritis (for us laymen out there that means puking your guts up...) that ended up with us at the hospital Monday for some iv fluids. He was very brave when it took three tries to get the iv in his hand because he was so dehydrated. They gave him a teddy bear to cuddle after getting poked and stuck, which was very comforting. So he watched Pooh Bear while his body got a "big drink". He had to have some sugar through the iv also, then they ended up keeping him overnight because he wasn't tolerating food or drink by mouth. He perked up after a few hours on the iv and even managed some crackers and sprite around 10 p.m., which was his first food in almost three days. Poor kid, felt like he was starving to death. It is really hard to explain to a four year old why he can't have food when he is hungry. They let us come home in the morning after he managed to eat about half of his breakfast. And he was feeling better until this evening when he started to throw-up again. He wanted to go back to the hospital because he felt so bad, but he felt better when I promised to take as good of care of him as the nurses. I'm hoping he sleeps through the night, I haven't slept in my own bed since Thursday.