Oh what a night!

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   Talk about a comedy of errors! Remember how I said Sienna wasn't 100%? And that she had diarrohea? Well, in good ole Murphy style, last night she started to deteriorate really quickly, stopped passing urine, threw up all thru her cot then pooped all thru my bed. And of course Willie had gone out to watch the rugby and was too drunk to drive home so I had no one here to stay with Mercedes and Maya so I could take Sienna to the hospital.

Poor old Katherine sent me a completely innocent text at about 10.30pm, only to get a reply along the lines of "help!!!!" So she came over in the cold and the wet in the middle of the night (well it was midnight, but still...) and stayed with the girls while I took Sienna to hospital in the ambulance (coz of course I'd taken my meds which mean I'm not allowed to drive for 12 hours). She even stripped and changed my bed and Sienna's cot so that when we crawled home at 4am I had somewhere to crash, then she crashed on my couch and got up with the girls and fed/played with them so I could sleep. 

At the hospital Sienna was rehydrated via syringe, which she was quite happy about coz of course hospital pedialyte tastes so much better than the stuff I'd been trying to give her at home all evening *rolls eyes* And goes from being limp and floppy and unresponsive to bouncy and happy and chatting up all the nurses.

Oh and did I mention that my dryer is dead? So I now have piles of sheets I've had to wash and no way of getting them dry, not to mention the piles of clothes from our week away that are slowly making their way thru the airing racks (oh Katherine even did some of that for me, bless her!)

So overall it was the night from hell. And I just pray (and pray and pray) that Sienna hasn't shared her bugs with anyone else at Caitlin's party yesterday afternoon  Altho Mercedes is fine and given that they sare everything spoons, cups etc. I would have thought she'd be the first to get it.

So huge, huge, huge thanks to Katherine for being there and abandoning Harry Potter to come rescue me in my hour of need, it's times like these when you really do know who your true friends are. And that she offered (or rather insisted) even without being asked. I appreciate it so much. I'll have to come snotmonster-wrangle one night so you and DH can have a night out to pay you back somehow.

ETA: To answer my worry over whether they are gaining weight or not, they weighed her at the hospital and she was 7.9kg fully dressed which is 200g lighter than when she was weighed naked at Plunket a month or so ago. Hard to know if she's only lost weight from being sick these past few days tho. Am going to take them both to the GP tomorrow or Tues to get them weighed naked again and talk to her about my worries.  

Edited by Maya