Girls

This last week has been a rough one. I got a lot of knitting done but not for the best reasons. The triplets started getting sick on Thursday, February 25th. Lily started running a fever and then Audrey came down with it the next morning. On the weekend it was obvious that this wasn't your run of the mill illness, Lily especially was very ill. Izzy came down with it on Sunday. On Monday, March 1 the kids took the three to the doctor. They were diagnosed with RSV. The doctor called an ambulance for Lily because of her oxygen level and Jimmy rode to the hospital with her. They did a breathing treatment on Audrey and then had Maranda take her to the hospital too. The five of them had to wait in the emergency room for three hours waiting on a room with two beds to open up. Both Audrey and Lily also had pneumonia and were on oxygen, Lily was also on IV fluids.

I left work at noon Monday and went to their house - Maranda brought Izzy home for me to take care of and she went back to the hospital. The rest of the week was spent with me at their house most of the time taking care of Izzy - which consisted of rocking her, trying to get her to drink juice and watching endless episodes of Little Einsteins with a few Mickey Mouse shows thrown in. I told the kids I needed Little Einsteins detox at the end of this week. She slept a lot but when she was awake she wanted rocked most of the time.

Audrey got to come home from the hospital on Friday afternoon and Lily was finally discharged on Sunday evening. She was still having diarrhea and vomiting occasionally but she was able to keep her oxygen level up during her nap so they let her come home.

They were not ready to go back to daycare yet so Maranda stayed home this morning and I spent the afternoon with them. What a huge difference. They are all feeling so much better. Audrey and Izzy are running around and act just like their old selves except for Izzy taking an almost four hour nap today! She is still a bit on the tired side.

I feel very blessed to have the type of job and boss that allows me to be gone for family illness so I could be there to watch Izzy so Jimmy and Maranda could both be with the other two. At the same time, I really wish I were retired so I could be there all this week so they didn't have to go back to daycare until after spring break!