Weight GAIN- and THRILLED about it!
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Weight GAIN- and THRILLED about it!
| Sat, 03-06-2004 - 6:39pm |
So it's not MY weight gain, it's Rina's!
Last April my daughter had viral meningitis and it was terrifying. She had blinding headaches, kept NOTHING down, was weak and fragile and eventually had to take all nourishment through an IV. She was 5 years old and got down to 23 lbs.
Since her recovery it's been hard to get weight on her. When we moved here in August she weighed 32 lbs.
I weighed her today, and she's up to 52 lbs!!! I think it's all the cheesy potato soup my MIL feeds her.....
I just had to share- I am so thankful, and SO excited!

~~Linda
~~Linda
Oh God bless you all!
How harrowing that must have been! I would have been out of my mind with fear. Children are so sacred. It really disturbs me to see
Deb 270/228/145ish (updated 4/19/04. Next weigh-in: 6/1/04)
One thing about Rina- she's NOT a creampuff. She broke her arm 2 years ago and we didn't even take her to the hospital for 2 days because she never cried! She tripped over Rob's feet while running through the house to maim her brother for some reason and hit her arm on the side of my parents' solid wood couch frame. She was mad that she fell, but never cried. My best friend, who's a nurse, was there and I had her check it out and we wrapped it in an ACE bandage and put some ice on it. The next day we left it wrapped. The day after THAT we went to Lake Michigan and Rina was slipping on some ice and Sarah grabbed her arm to pull her back up and Rina said Ow, Aunt Sarah! That kinda hurt! When we got back to the car we unwrapped her arm and it was so bruised and grotesque it made my stomach turn. We drove to the hospital and X-rays revealed it was broken in two places, but the child never whined a bit! She thought it was cool that she got a colored cast and that people could sign it, and she liked using it to "accidentally" smack her brother, but other than that it didn't phase her. She learned to write her name with her left hand and 7 weeks later was back in action. Blood, broken bones, NOTHING phased her.
When she was SCREAMING because of her headache and begging the nurse to please give her more medicine for her head and please make the dr. leave the light off I wanted to strangle everyone who wasn't listening to me when I was telling them how serious it must be for her to be behaving that way. I'm generally a pretty mild person, and I don't yell at dr's etc...til then. It took 3 weeks for them to run the tests, and I was driving them all crazy calling EVERY day and telling them how high her fever was, how she couldn't even keep water down, how she couldn't turn her head. They only did the tests to shut me up, but then when they realized it WAS serious they treated her like gold. One of the nurses in the pediatric ward even made her a makeshift parasol to keep the light out of her eyes.
These days she's better than ever. She is a fierce little girl, and when she had her last check up the only concern was that her feet are flat. Oh darn- give my baby a reason not to join the military like she says she's going to....I wasn't upset at all. LOL!
Kerry