Big Hospital Stay

  About a week after his 1st birthday Joel got the flu bug really bad. He had to be put in the hospital over night because he was so severely dehydrated. No matter what I tried the little guy just wasn't keeping the fluids in. I had actually seen a couple of doctor ahead of time for a couple of days in a row, but all the doctors said he will be fine. Finally, I couldn't take it any longer because my happy go lucky boy was just laying in my arms not wanting to do anything, and he had not had a wet diaper over 48 hours. So, I made an appointment to see his regular doctor. Dr. Boonstra just looked at him and knew for sure that Joel was too sick, but did test anyway on him. He had the nurse draw blood. While we were waiting on the blood work to come back the doctor had us go over to the pediatric infusion side where they put in an iv to get some fluids in him since oral was not working. Joel didn't even hardly cry when they put it in.
   After about 3 hours Dr. Boonstra came over to check Joel out again, and tell us the results. Since Joel still was not perky, and the blood work showed that he was severely dehydrated; plus he blood sugar was so low he decided to admit him to the hospital. I was so greatful that he really took the time to take care of Joel.
  That night Joel mostly just slept with his IV in his arm. They gave him IV bolus of glucose to get his blood sugar up too. By midnight Joel was feeling a little better enough to take in a little fluids by mouth. It wasn't a whole lot, but enough to make me happy. That morning around 2 am his IV somehow came out. We had blood everywhere. It took 3 nurses plus me to hold him down, and get the new IV put in. By that afternoon he got to go home. I was so happy that he didn't have to stay the night. Child life and the hospital staff were awesome.