Surrounded By Sickness

We're on her 8th set of PJs and the last clean crib sheet. Beginning at 6pm, Boogie has been vomiting every 30 minutes or so. It slowed down with an hour gap between her 9:15 and 10:20 sessions, and for a while I thought she might actually get some rest, but it happened again. I'm dreading tomorrow, but all I can do is wait and see if I'm going to catch this nasty virus too.

We actually spoke to a nice, knowledgeable advice nurse this time, who told us not to feed her anything, not even water for 30 minutes after she vomits, which made sense at first, but was quickly abandoned when we found the surprising regularity of her upheavals. This sucks, but I am so glad we have laminate floors and in-house laundry available, because if we didn't there'd be frantic calls to Nonny and Tere to drop by the laundromat.

P has been good. Amazing really how through this mini-crisis he's really stepped up. When she starts, I hold her and he cleans. We've both had to shower and change clothes a few times, but I'd do anything to ease her pain when I hear her hoarse little voice calling for me. I can't imagine the burning of her throat, to be doused in acid so much in so few hours, and when I hold her after she's finished, her little heart is thumping around her chest, probably from both fear and exertion.

On other fronts, I get to see Tygir tomorrow. No news is good news, according to the Vet, and I have a candle lit and send up a little prayer often that she'll be okay. I don't know exactly what's wrong yet, aside from her body shutting down due to her liver not functioning properly. When I brought her in Wednesday, she was cold, she couldn't keep her body heat up, she was severely dehydrated, hadn't eaten in 2 days and had very poor bladder control. Once again very grateful for laundry and no carpet.

So hopefully we'll know tomorrow. I don't know if the blood work will be back, but if it's terminal I'll have to decide what to do. I hope I can bring her home, I know she hates being alone, but I'm scared that once she gets here, she might let go.

2008 has already piled on more challenges that I imagined in 4 days. But like I said last year, He will never give me more than I can handle. I just need to get the lessons the first time around so that I don't go through this again..