Whew! I am so glad the flu bug has officially left our house (knock on wood!). Meghan woke up this past Friday morning at 12:30am vomiting. For a while, she was vomiting every 45 minutes. She wasn't running a fever. We remembered commenting throughout the day on Thursday on how Meghan just wasn't acting like herself. She would zone out at times and she was really mellow and to herself. So when she woke up vomiting, a red flag went up and we started to worry these were symptoms of a shunt failure. It's been 8 months since Meghan has had her shunt and we haven't had any issues with her shunt yet (again, knock on wood!), so we aren't sure how Meghan will present symptoms when she does have a shunt failure. We are just going on the symtpoms we were told to go by...consistent vomiting, no fever, change in personality, fatigue. These were all things we noticed with Meghan on Thursday, and now the vomiting. We decided to call Childrens to talk to a Neurosurgeon. Jeff called while I tended to Meghan. We got very lucky and Meghan's neurosurgeon happened to be the on call doctor when we called, so Jeff got to talk to him personally. Jeff described her symptoms and he told us she will probably need to be scanned based on her symptoms, or we can wait it out a few hours to see if it is just a bug. Since this was 3:30am and neither one of us had really gotten any sleep at this point, we decided to wait it out a couple hours until Luke went off to school. Luckily, by 5:45am, she had finally fallen asleep and we didn't have any issues after that so we did not need to take Meghan in for any scans. PHEW! Jeff was supposed to leave with a group of guys at 7am on Friday morning to go on a hunting trip, but he decided he couldn't leave not knowing it wasn't a shunt failure. We are very thankful for understanding friends and relatives! Little Miss Meghan was supposed to leave on the trip with her dad and he was going to drop Meghan off with Grandma Linda for the weekend so I could paint her bedroom, but, plans changed and Mom and Meghan had a mother daughter bonding weekend on the couch. After Meghan got sick, I got sick as well :) Thank you to all who offered to come help, but, with the holidays approaching, I didn't want to get anyone else sick. The offers were definitely appreciated, though! We are finally feeling better today!
Jeff took Meghan in for a weight check last Thursday. She weighs 18.2 and is 29 inches long. Just so tiny.
Meghan has PT and OT Wednesday morning. I am excited as I will get to sit in with this session! I don't usually sit in with the sessions as the girls do their sessions with Meghan upstairs while I tend to the daycare kids downstairs. But, Jeff will be home and he will hang out with the daycare kids so I can sit in with Meghan.
We hope everyone is staying healthy!
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