Sep 02 2007
Nothing’s going right
I’m so worried about little Miss Zoe and her illness/reflux/whatever it is that is plaguing her. She has been giving back copious amounts of her formula since Wednesday. I ended up calling her doctor’s answering service last night after I told a friend that she’d only kept down about four ounces yesterday. She thought I should take Zoe to the ER. The doc didn’t think that was necessary, fortunately. I was told to give her formula in the morning if she had wet diapers but electrolytes if she didn’t. She was starving last night at 11pm, so we filled her belly with the pedi@lyte and hoped she’d make it through till morning—which she did.
Today, she gave back probably 4 ounces. She did take 6 ounces of pedi@lyte at 6 this morning, then 2 ounces, then three ounces. I gave her her first dose of meds at 3 this afternoon and then fed her 3 ounces. She slept and I fed her again after we had supper. She was turning away from the bottle and then pulling it back to her. She finished only to give it all back plus some partially digested stuff from her last feeding. John fed her about 8 and that 3 ounces seems to have stayed down. We’ll feed her again in a bit for the last time today (I guess that’ll total 17 ounces of formula and 6 ounces of electrolytes. Not quite the mandated 25 ounces, but probably closer than we’ve been in four days. Of this, though, she probably gave back at least 4 ounces. So is that normal or is she going to be losing weight and have us back to doing weight checks like we had to do with AJ?
I finally got a chance to photograph my Brown and Blue Swaparooni package. When I did, I was looking for the bag of chocolate I got, but it wasn’t on the table and it hadn’t fallen off the table either. I wandered to the kitchen and found the empty! (yes, I said E-M-P-T-Y!) bag in the trash. I got to eat two whole pieces of chocolate from this bag. There had to have been at least a dozen! Only two, really? So, I fussed at John who said “You said you didn’t like them.” Yeah, right, me not like dark chocolate . . . I guess he can live with that, but I don’t buy it. So, he and AJ ate most of my chocolate. AJ wants my candle from the swap. I guess I’ll have to take the lotion, body butter, notebook and notecards and pens to work so that I can use them or I might not have a shot at them either. At any rate, Sheena did an awesome job selecting items for me, even if I didn’t get to enjoy everything. Did I mention that I love dark chocolate and I didn’t get more than two pieces from this bag? 
Boys!
I think John’s probably ready to kick my butt up around my ears anyhow because it seems like anything he does makes me grouse at him. I was grumpy on Friday at my uncle’s retirement party. I was grumpy yesterday because Zoe’s so sick and I feel like I’m doing most of the feeding and clean up. I was grumpy today for that reason, plus AJ didn’t eat all of his dinner and John gave him snacks even though I told him he needed to finish dinner before he got anything else. Plus, did I remember to mention that they ATE MY CHOCOLATE! I just wanna cry. I probably should go to bed and hope I wake up on the right side tomorrow.
