Our long week...

 Our poor little Lyla Pie has had quite a week with a really awful viral infection. It has dragged on and on. Let me fill you in...it all started on Monday when she started getting high fevers on and off...proceeded into Tuesday with more high fevers, lethargic behavior, and vomiting...continued to Wednesday where she welcomed more fevers, vomiting, and mouth pain--including a sore on her lower lip...straight into Thursday with more fevers and then I noticed her gums were incredibly swollen and red (so swollen in fact that I could hardly see her teeth!)...Thursday night she had her first ever night terror (which was quite a scary experience for Chris and I)...carrying forward to Friday with more mouth pain (now including bleeding gums, tongue sores, pain in teeth), on /off fevers, more lethargic behavior, 3 night terrors...advancing to Saturday when I thought ENOUGH IS ENOUGH when she had bleeding gums and still continued to lay on the couch unable to do anything for more than 10 minutes. She then began complaining of stomach pain. All the while, Lyla had not had ONE thing to eat since Monday--it was now Saturday and we all know how tiny she is. We were worried. I called our pediatrician who sent us straight to Phoenix Children's Hospital...

Lyla at the hospital for the first time since birth

Landon at the hospital to offer his support

Once at the hospital, after waiting for what seemed like forever, they had to give her an iv due to dehydration. (We all knew that was coming, but it wasn't pleasant.) The nurse tried to get the iv in her left hand--but couldn't find the vein--so she had to go through the entire thing again with the right hand...and boy was it painful. They tried to numb her, unfortunately they said it just doesn't work for a very small percentage of children, Lyla is one of them. So...they fished around with that needle in her tiny hand, and it broke my heart. She was so brave.

with the iv finally in

they brought her a puppy pillow pet for being so brave!

her swollen hand where they first tried to put the iv in

once the iv was in she could finally have a drink (aka Popsicle)

and even though she felt terrible she still managed to flash me a smile--love her.

we brought our dvd player and she watched Calliou during all the waiting and iv drip.

Finally, after she was no longer dehydrated and had had medicine, we were okay'd to take her home! She was happy to hear we could go home. It ended up that she has a severe viral infection that presented itself in very strange ways--and certainly every way possible. They threw around Herpangina and Stomatitis...but who knows. They said she is anemic, and showing keytones in her urine, but both of those things point to dehydration.

happy to have some fluids in her body

and glad to take puppy (who has already had a nice long bath in washing machine) home

Yesterday, once home, we were able to get Lyla to eat a drinkable yogurt, thank goodness--it was the first thing she has ate since Monday! (And she was able to keep it down!) The poor little tiny is only 25 pounds, she doesn't have any weight to lose!

After 5 night terrors last night we had an appointment with our pediatrician this morning. We are praying she is on the way to recovery! We will more than likely be going back in on Wednesday if she has not turned the corner for more blood work. And most of all, we are praying her baby brother doesn't also have to go through any of this--we have been told it is highly contagious! Yikes. I have ran around here with Lysol, Lysol wipes, bleach, washing and sanitizing things like crazy--but we all know if he, Chris, or I are going to catch it we will. Clean house or not! (but cleaning does at least make me feel better.)

Speaking of Landon, while Lyla waited in the Emergency Room Landon explored the great outdoors...

the little girl we met while there, she loved Landon and wanted her picture with him!

Thank you for all the kind comments, concern, and prayers...we truly appreciate it!