Update on Trystan...

Trystan is doing much better today, praise the Lord!!

All day yesterday he kept getting worse and worse, and my Mommy hackles were really up! He was just laying on my bed staring at the wall for hours at a time. His fever had broken, but he was acting worse than ever. No TV, no games, he even refused Popsicles. He was already dehydrated, and still would not drink more than a sip of water all afternoon. He wouldn't walk, wouldn't talk. He took a long nap, so I waited to see....

Around 2:45 he got really bad, his stomach pain was really intense and he started throwing up bile. Yuck. Of course all over me. You know I was really worried about him, I told him he was doing a great job throwing up. At this point things were so bad I felt like we were looking at appendicitis. I've seen stomach viruses before, I've WORN stomach viruses before, and this was not it.

Then things changed drastically. He asked for a sucker (which he fell asleep trying to suck on), and then he wanted ice cream. I'm not out of my mind, so I said no to the ice cream, but I told him if he could eat a popsicle and keep it down we would go to sonic and get a milkshake. I remember that it was 3:15, because I told him he had 30 minutes to eat a popsicle and we could leave at 3:45 and make it to sonic for 1/2 priced shakes by 4pm.

That boy was determined. He took a few licks on the popsicle and he was just begging for that milkshake. I'd just like to say that I don't usually give dairy to children with fevers and queasy stomachs. This is not my usual mode of operation at all. I figured what is the worst that can happen? He's already upchucking... and he desperately needed some kind of fluid. He walked down the hall with a bowl under his chin throwing up in it as he went. We just cleaned it in the hall bath as we went and proceeded to the van. With the bowl. BUT HE WAS WALKING.

We got to sonic, and he started slowly sipping his shake. He kept his bowl beside him, but he didn't need it. Jeff came home and made them frozen pizza (again, not my usual m.o. for a sick kiddo) and he ate some and kept it down. He even ate some popcorn (it was movie night) and kept it down, too.

He went to bed with his bowl, his spiderman blanket and his glow puppy. He even brought all three to bed with us in the middle of the night. He never needed his bowl.

Today he is acting like Trystan. Diluted Trystan, but him just the same. He is not eating much but he is giggling and playing nintendo and fussing at his sister for bugging him...

The really cool thing is that last night I checked my email and saw that our church had sent out a prayer request email yesterday with several different requests. Trystan was in that email, and I didn't know it. The email was sent out at 3:13 pm. How awesome is that? He asked for that popsicle I had been begging him to eat all day at 3:15. When he asked that we were going over a child's pain diagram that helps them to explain to you how bad their pain is. Trystan was showing me that his pain was as bad as it could be, and in the next sentence wanted a popsicle and a milkshake.

Thank you for praying for Trystan. Thank you all for dropping what you were doing when your inbox chimed and praying for this sweet child!