Ethan's first stay at the hospital

Ethan suddenly had vomitting spells in the middle of the night sometime in September. It's been so long (more than a year) and yet the feeling of fear and hopelessness is still quite fresh in my mind.

The bummer was, I had work to do that night. So I had sent hubby to go be with my baby. I finished about 2am in the morning and so went up to check. There was a wierd smell in the room and to my horror, I realised that my baby had diarrhoea right there on the bed. My stoned hubby apparently slept right through it - Men!!! I cleaned Ethan up and then fed him some more water. He was so exhausted he was just whimpering, my poor baby. After that he had some more diarrhoea and vomiting that I lost it. I was just wailing. Something is seriously wrong with my baby and I couldn't do anything about it. Hubby saw my distressed state and offered to bring Ethan to EastShore. So we went.

Ok, so I don't like people sticking needles into my son. It makes him cry which tears at my heart. It's worse when they can't find a vein and keep sticking into him. By then all the stress and baby crying has resulted in niagra falls on my face, and I was miserable. They recommended he stay in the hospital and be dripped. Of course I requested for a private room to be with my lil'one.

Ethan fared remarkably well for the next few days he had to be in the hospital and was attached to a drip. I think he had to stay for 4 days. Of course at the end of it he was running around the place and we were begging the docs to let him go home. I started feeling unwell right about the third day and started vomitting myself. Apparently his Gastroenteritis bug thingy is very virulent. I was sent to bed by my doc who threathened me with saline drips and hospital stay!!! So Ethan was discharged to my mum's. Guess what, they all got it. My mum, hubby, the maid, my brother.

So we sent for reinforcements. My cousin Margaret came and helped out. Her husband, Eric came by to bring her home. Needless to say they fell ill too. In fact, Cousin Eric landed up in the hospital for 3 days. Ugh. Dark times.