Thursday, July 14, 2011
Quick post
I started this post several times and keep erasing it. I wanted to fill you in on our gotcha day and leaving the orphanage but we are very tired. Joshua is very sick. They have him on antibiotics, cough medicine and fever medication that is suppose to be every 6 hours but after 3 his fever is spiking extremely high. We were told that he is only given fluids via spoon fed and the fluid they have been giving him is baby tea :/ He refuses or rather can't drink from a cup- sippy or otherwise, he will not suck from a bottle either. The only way to push fluids is by spooning water in his mouth. He has had one wet diaper in 16 hours. He is eating baby food well but it is a battle for the water. He whimpers when he sees his medicine but he takes it like a trooper. We have one more embassy appointment tomorrow afternoon then at 3a we leave for home. Please pray Joshua feels better soon and our trip home will be rather uneventful :)
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Praying so hard for Joshua. RIGHT NOW. Lisa, have you tried getting him to drink from a fluid filled straw and letting the liquid just flow by gravity feed into his mouth? PRAYING!!!
ReplyDeletepraying hard for that precious one and you!
ReplyDeletepraying!! also..... any extra drops of water/fluids that you can mix into his baby food... counts as fluid. Also, jello/yogurt/ice cream (not sure what you can get your hands on) can count some towards fluids.
ReplyDeleteLots of prayers headed your way. . . I am sure that people have told you all of this but like Laurie said, add fluids to the baby food. Ellie is under the weather refusing everything but apple sauce (yesterday I was giving fluids through a syringe--sort of like Christie's straw recommendation). Apple sauce is a high-fluid-content food so it counts. Poor Joshua. He must be so miserable and I imagine that you must be so worried and stressed. Please know that even if I am not writing on your FB wall, I am thinking and praying for you guys.
ReplyDeletePRAYING for that precious little love!!!
ReplyDeleteHang in there!!!!
I was thinking about you today and remembering your posts back in March and how it all seemed so far away- but it's DONE!!! You've got him!!!
(((((HUGS)))))