Still Sick...

Ethan is STILL SICK. Poor baby! I hate to see him so miserable. I took him into the doctor yesterday afternoon - unfortunately his usual pediatrician was not in. We still met with a good doctor, but Dr. Hemsley already knows Ethan so well, that I always prefer if he can meet with him. We got good and bad news. The good news was that he wasn't dehydrated. Apparently there's some sort of virus going around. The doctor said she'd already seen several kids with the same symptoms and some of them had had it since Friday or Saturday. It's lasting about 5 days to a week, so Ethan's still got until Thursday or Friday before we should expect much of a change. The other bad news was that he's already lost about half of a pound. On his tiny frame, it shows. He was at 19lbs. on his birthday 3 weeks ago, yesterday he was down to 18lbs. 9 or 12 oz. - I don't remember. He's so weak - no energy at all. When I went in his room this morning, I found that he had thrown up a little - it was all over the front of his jammies. I gave him a quick bath and he just sat in the tub. Bath-time is usually one of his favorite things - it killed me to watch him just sit there while I scrubbed his hair and washed him down. The poor little guy just lies on the floor with his blankie - if you happen to move out of sight, he gets up and crawls just far enough so that he can see you and then lays back down. It's just SO SAD! I want my baby to feel better!!