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Children and being sick…

Marian April 3rd, 2007

Friday began like any other Friday…. Get up get the kids off to school, all of the usual things. Little did I know that Roy would come home from school sick. It started with diarrhea at about 3pm. Then by 9pm it had graduated to vomiting. All through the night, he could never really get comfortable and the going from both ends continued. Finally, at 6:30, we became more concerned. He had the shakes and couldn’t stand up steadily. His eyes were sunken. He was dehydrated! We decided to call the doctor, but I wasn’t familiar with the Doctor on-call, so I thought it wasn’t too early to call my neighbour, Maria, who is also an M.D. (she didn’t answer!)

Then, we decided we needed to call his doctor at home! She’s a friend, and I am loathe to take advantage of that friendship. But, my son was sick and getting sicker by the minute, so I called her, and woke her…. ( I owe her lunch! :-) )

She told us to give him another suppository to stop his nausea, and if it didn’t stop it to take him to the Pediatric E.R. After 30 minutes we still had the diarrhea and nausea. We got ready to go to hospital. Roy was triaged and and taken to a room in the ER, where he was receiving treatment within a short time of our arrival. He was given IV fluids and eventually antibiotics as they also did a throat swab which indicated that he had Strep.

We left the ER by midday and were on our way home after a couple of intermediary stops, on of which was the pharmacy. Then it was home, where we tried to keep Roy as comfortable as possible, but his temp started going up. We decided to let it work for a while. Your body runs a fever for a reason, usually to cook out whatever bug is going after you!

We kept him home from school on Monday and Tuesday… and it looks like it may be Wednesday as well!

Wish us luck, until later,

Marian

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Our Winter Snow Pilgrimage

Marian January 2nd, 2007

Each year, we take a Winter holiday to see and experience snow and a nice dry cold…. I mean really cold.

We left Huntsville last Wednesday the 27th, and spent the night in Nashville, as we had a very early flight out to Calgary. We were a bit concerned, we had a connection in Denver and they had another blizzard in the forecast. But, we made it through with flying colours, and with all of our luggage. The storm hit Denver much later in the day. Almost everything was shut down again, but they were better prepared than they were for the pre-Christmas storm that wreaked havoc.

We stay at a very kid friendly place in Banff. They have a huge indoor play structure as well as 2 indoor water slides, 2 hot tubs, a kiddie pool, and a smaller pool. Attached is a small grocery store, laundromat, and spirits store.

On New Year’s eve we went over to Lake Louise, and Dan ice skated on the lake while the kids and I went inside the Chateau for a cup of hot chocolate. Then on New Years Day, we went back to Lake Louise for a Sleigh Ride. It was beautiful. We went most of the way down the lake which is just over a mile long. We watched Ice Climbers preparing to climb a frozen waterfall, then we turned back to the chateau and a snack before the hour drive back to Banff.

I have taken a few snaps, they can be seen with some of my other photos, the link is on the right. But Danny has uploaded a few pictures to his album as well, click here for a look!

I will try to make another post as time permits. See you when we return. The kids are back in school next Monday.

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