Back from the brink!

Whew, what a week?! Madelyn came down with Mike's stomach bug early Monday morning - and was nothing more than a sad puddle on the floor for the following 5 days. She had her second ER visit in the past 3 weeks, this time for IV drip to rehydrate. Not fun, poor kiddo, but she was a trooper, as was Mike who stayed home with her for 4 of those days!! BUT, by the time I came home on Friday, she was propped upright, which was a minor miracle! And by Saturday she was crawling in our bed early in the morning to start her "grocery list" of all of the food we should buy so that she could fill her tummy up! Needless to say, there's been a lot of bananas, eggs, cream cheese and ice cream in the picture over the last few days to try and put some weight back on this already thin gal!

The upswing to this week is that Madelyn got her cast off! I had to carry her in on Tuesday, limp and pathetic. Trust me, I tried to cancel the appointment, but Madelyn INSISTED, even in her weakened state, and was a force to be reckoned with. THe doc cut the cast off and after seeing her elbow, said that is was most likely a fracture, which meant another week or so for complete healing. So, we slipped the cast back on, wrapped it with an ace bandage to keep it on, and went back to the livingroom floor:). Madelyn has been sleeping in it, but at least we could slip it off for a bath. As of yesterday, we started taking the cast off more and more, and today she's been cast-free and starting to use her arm a bit more, which has been fun to watch.

Here's the only picture we have of Madelyn from the last week - yesterday morning she wanted to play dress up (a delightful change from 5 days of pretty yucky jammies!). She looks pretty morose here, but she is just intently listening to a story.


That's the news from here... I hope to have more exciting reports next week!