DHS please don't come after us!!

My sweet baby Gray has had kind of a bad year. You might think he was being abused if you didn't know better. In January, I thought he had a normal, run-of-the-mill stomach virus. Every couple of days, I figured it had run it's course when he would start feeling a little better and keep food down. This went on for almost two weeks!!! I cleaned up more than my share of poop and vomit. After ruling out everything "normal" he was hospitalized for borderline dehydration. Three days into the hospital stay, he was finally diagnosed with a parasite called "microsporidia." Leave it up to our family to get something weird! Our pediatrician had never seen it and the infection control doctor at the hospital hadn't seen it in five years! Thankfully, there was a medication to kill it. After a few doses it cleared up completely. Unfortunately, he could only have one dose per day and we were in the hospital seven days!! We will never know where or how he got it, but we do know our little man was very happy to get that IV out and be home! Spending a little time with Pop and our other company helped pass the time.

He was pretty pitiful!

He got really spoiled sleeping in the bed with me for a week...I didn't get much sleep:)

A couple of months later.... little man woke up and wouldn't walk...the first doctor diagnosed him with transient synovitis??? Again, I'm thinking...leave to us to get something weird! Two days later...much worse...he is sent to an orthopedic and diagnosed with sprain/fracture-not sure which...either way it has to be immobilized for three weeks!

Cast #1-blue-isn't that sad???

Cast #2-green-he had learned to walk on it by week 2

...last but not least, he busted his head the same week he got the hand/foot and mouth virus-he was a pitiful sight!!

Through it all, he was still the sweetest baby ever!!

He's doing much better now...so DHS please don't call us;)