The Past 48

The past few days have been crazy, to say the least. In the early hours of Monday morning, Jason and I were abruptly woken up to the sound of Lincoln puking. Yummy. Jason immediately sent me to the guest bedroom (aka: Adelynn's room) for the night and took care of Lincoln. He continued to throw up about 8-10 time sin a four hour time span - solidifying the stomach flu had invaded our house. The kid was a trooper though; he didn't cry once about it and made it to the toilet every time....half of the times on his own doing while Jason was asleep. Fantastic!
When this went through our house last year, it went through our entire house and was the most violent sickness any of us had ever experienced. So I laid in the guest room that night stricken with panic of what it would be like to be 10 days away from delivering Adelynn and violently puking. And when I googled "38 weeks and stomach flu" the panic worsened as I realized it could easily turn into an early hospital visit for me.
So the next morning, before Jason and Lincoln emerged from the bedroom, I snatched Noah and we headed to my mom's house indefinitely to try and avoid it.

In the midst of this, I got a call  from my little sis saying my older sister - who just gave birth to my nephew Ven last week - was in the ER with severe stomach pain and other abnormal symptoms. Amy was taking care of Ven in the hospital while the doctors were trying to figure out what was wrong with Kristen.

Ven's 1 week appointment happened to be that morning, so since Kristen was in the hospital, Amy went with Kristen's husband to take him for his check-up. While at his check-up, it was determined that Ven was jaundice and would also need to be hospitalized right away overnight.

Yes, this was all happening in one day.

The unfortunate part was that my sister and Ven were at two different hospitals!

Later that night, after getting the report that Lincoln had been symptom-free for the entire day (as well as Jason), Noah and I decided to head home for the night. Jason was a trooper. He cleaned and disinfected the ENTIRE house like a maniac all afternoon/evening before we came home trying to keep us from getting it. Through lots of prayer and cleaning - all of us, even Jason, were spared. :)

Other positive news as of late last night was that Ven improved 100% and was released from the hospital last night.

However, as of late last night, my sister was still in major pain and the doctors are still somewhat unclear as of what is exactly wrong with her. She is still in the hospital because her white blood cell count was too high indicating an infection somewhere...they just aren't sure where yet.

So keep her and family in your prayers! It's been a stressful transition for them to a family of three so far, and I think everyine is a little "hospital-ed out". I told Amy I'm totally fine if everyone wants to wait to meet Adelynn at home instead of in the hospital!

And one more prayer request...a sweet friend in Amy's community group went into pre-term labor yesterday and ended up having to deliver their sweet baby girl. She was alive when she was born but her heart was too underdeveloped and they were not able to save her. Just absolutely heartbreaking.

Like I said yesterday...heaviness.

I have a doctor's appointment today...and then only more next week before delivery. Curious to see if we are making progress. Amy asked me to please have an uneventful delivery. :) That is the prayer.