The Worst Week Ever

I think the universe is playing a sick joke on me. It's taken my sweet lively little girl and turned her into a lethargic sniffling little mess.

Let's see . . . . it all started . . . . cue the fog and mist (you know like in a movie flashback?!? C'mon people!) Monday night . . . . Bella woke up crying saying she puked. She spent the next several hours ridding her stomach of all its contents and has succeeded in puking at least two times every single day since.

We are now on day five of this nightmare. She has scarcely eaten more than two crackers and a couple nibbles of bread each day and spends most of her time laying on the couch barely speaking. Her sweet smile has been replaced with a sullen stare and I long for my baby girl to have that bounce in her step and that twinkle in her eye again!

Brian took her to the doctor on Thursday because we started getting concerned that she was dehydrated. The doctor said that she looked surprisingly good considering she had been puking since Monday. She sent Brian home with some tips on how to get Bella to keep some fluids down and how to slowly work some solids into her recent diet of nothing.

It just broke my heart to hear my baby tell me she was hungry and then watch her take one bite and want nothing more to do with her food. I don't know how a person so small can go without eating for so many days! Then she would ask me for pudding or cheese (both things she LOVES) and when I'd tell her that she couldn't have those things . . . she would just cry. It was so horrible!!

I have to say that until this morning I was starting to get very concerned that perhaps this wasn't just a flu bug . . . I can't describe how hard it was for us to watch her feeling so miserable for so long and not being able to do anything to help her.

But, today is a new day . . . and today I am convinced that we are kicking this flu bug's butt right out of this house for good. And even though that twinkle is still not quite in those baby blue eyes . . . I am seeing glimpses of my spunky girl that I haven't seen in days.

So - suck on that flu bug . . . you are not welcome here anymore.