Day + 163 - Daylon update

Yesterday was Sadie's and Violet's 3rd Birthday and Daylon was sicker than a dog. He was vomiting ALL. DAY. LONG. Let's just say that the good hours of the day he puked 4 or 5 times. We did our family tradition breakfast of the candle in the donut and then got the kids ready for preschool. While Brian was gone walking the kids down to school, Daylon threw up (somehow) in his hair, so I decided to give him his first real bath since May...with the hope that it would be the first bath ever that he enjoyed.

 I don't know what I was thinking. Big mistake. He was fussy all morning and he was fussy in the bath. Not to mention, that once I got him in the tub I realized that it was impossible to wash his hair without getting his Hickman wet. I knew there was a reason he hadn't been in the tub. :) I held him while Brian washed his hair over the tub, then we did a dressing change, two line changes and dressed him all with intermittent vomiting. Total time? One hour! Not bad, if I do say so myself! :) We cuddled for about a half hour and he calmed down. I'll save you from the day blow-by-blow and just say that the entire day was changing him and trying to cuddle and soothe one very fussy boy... over and over again. Brian took the older four to go see Disney's "Tangled" for the girl's b-day and they had a blast, so the twins did enjoy their birthday.



Daylon showing off his first haircut (not counting the one chemo gave him)



  Today Brian took Daylon to dialysis, while the kids (ha!) and I packed. Holy smokes. It's amazing how much JUNK you can accumulate in 7 months! It took me the WHOLE DAY to pack up only about a quarter of our what? 400 or 500 sq feet?!


                

                                  Grandma, Papa and Grandma M&M singing "Happy Birthday" over the phone (Violet was sung to first and I didn't think to get the camera out. :(  )

Whole lot a junk and four little helpers who were suddenly very interested with whatever I put in the boxes. :) Brian called me at 2 this afternoon and said that Daylon was running a 101F temp, so he was admitted to the hospital following dialysis. He'll be in the hospital for a minimum of three days (that's the rule for a fever) and on Vanco (IV antibiotics). They sent his blood to be checked for infection, so we should hear back in the morning. There doesn't look to be an infection on his skin anywhere, so I don't think it's wound related. What ever this is, bug or infection, I pray it will end soon. Please continue to keep our little man in your prayers. Thanks for all your support!
Sweet dreams.

Someone randomly dropped off a b-day cake at the RMH and the office gave it us!

PS- The weather here is so crazy! The weatherman says it was the coldest day today since Feb. 1st. Minnesota received 6-13 inches of snow (depends where you are... Minneapolis was 7.2 inches) last night.