ok is vacation week over yet?

I was so looking forward to Scott having this week off and getting to do all sorts of fun things as a family.  We were going to go to the zoo, get our portfolio review done, and do a LOT of yard work.  We had a full, busy, and fun week planned for time together as a family.

Instead, Lydia spent 8 days throwing up nonstop.  The other girls got to spend a day at grandma's while we took her to Children's Hospital, she went to the pediatrician on Friday, and now on day 8 she's at the point that if she doesn't improve by Monday morning I'll be calling her doctor and demanding that they put in an order to admit her for IV fluids and medication.  She's weakened to where she's having trouble walking, she is starting to hallucinate, and is just miserable and making everyone else miserable.  Her 9th birthday was Friday, and her present was suppositories for her nausea and Zofran pills to take once the other medicine starts to work with a "come back in a week once she's hydrated so we can run a million blood tests on her that will require 2 or 3 people helping to hold her down."  She didn't even get to have her birthday cake.  She picked out an ice cream cake, and nobody got it yesterday.  She did keep food down last night all night, so we made the decision to go ahead and do the ice cream cake for her.  That was a mistake, and it totally set off her vomiting again until she fell asleep while I was out shopping with a friend of mine (and the boy along for the ride, poor kid).

Hopefully she improves soon, or on Monday morning I'll be calling her doctor again.  No point in calling right now or tomorrow even, as her doctor isn't on call and the pediatrician at the local ER is a total douche and I flat out can't stand him.  He stinks as a doctor too in my not-so-professional opinion.  I am supposed to take the healthy 3 girls and the boy to church tonight, leave in about 45 minutes, but I really don't feel up to it.  I'm drained, both physically and mentally.

This vacation week has sucked.  Hopefully Monday brings back normal life and health to an extent where I'm not freaked over Lydia being so sick.  I'll come back another time and post more details about her illness, as it is something we've battled for all her life to a degree with the last several months of it being more serious (with the worst flare up being this past 8 days)