WOW!!! is all I can say. This seemed to be one of the hardest times I've had since miscarrying our invetro baby. This post will be alittle personal but I don't want to forget it. This was such a hard time. It all started the first of December. Poor little Mylee started throwing up and diarrhea. It started out randomly. We thought she had the flu but it was so weird cause she would get sick and when I was going to take her to the dr it would go away. Didn't think much of it until around Christmas time. She stopped eating and drinking and lost 3 pounds so quick. On alittle 4yr old, who is little to begin with, it's alot. We took her into the the dr on the 23rd of dec and he admitted her to get her hydrated again. He kept her over night to make sure that we wouldn't be back in the next day. She got nice and hydrated but was SO worn out! Christmas wasn't the same this year at our house. She was so excited but just had no energy. All during that, we found out we were pregnant and SO excited but SO nervous cause we had had a tubal in Jan. Well a couple weeks later I started to bleed and ended up passing it on Christmas Eve. I was able to stay overnight at the hospital with Mylee and I just kept asking for ibprofen and lorna dune cookies, along with my 20 cokes! It was a really hard miscarriage but it was so crazy with the holidays so I didn't really have alot of time to think about it. Well in Jan. My hadn't gotten over whatever she had so I took her back to the dr. He told me to wait another week and then he would start doing testing on her. I just didn't feel right about it so I took her to another dr office and they admitted her right away. This new dr just looked at her and when I said she looked ok compared to how she had looked he was shocked cause he didn't think she looked good at all. Well we went back to utah valley hospital and all through the night they did tons of testing on her. They tested her blood, stool, and ordered ultrasounds at 1 in the morning. I will say, I have never been so nervous in my life. Layne went back home to be with Derek and I couldn't sleep at all that night. The blood work came back with way elevated white blood cells and the nurses and drs kept everything this time, more to themselves. They didn't really know what was going on. I started to think of the worst. It's always been my fear of having a child with cancer and it was in the back of my mind. Everything on the ultrasound looked good so that was good there wasn't anything there. The next morning they still had no idea what was going on. Later that morning her stool sample came back and they found giarrdia. I was completely relieved! They all were in shock that that is what it was. Grandpa Banks came by to see Mylee after his dr appt for his leukemia and as I was walking him to the elevator there was a sweet little girl with her mom coming on our floor that was bald from cancer. I said goodbye to grandpa and just broke down crying from seeing that sweet girl. I had such a flood of emotions. I was so grateful that My only had giarrdia! It broke my heart to see such a young little girl fighting that. I immediately started thanking my heavenly Father for blessing us with all our blessings. I can't imagine how hard it would be to watch your sweet child fight through something like that. It killed Layne and I watching My go through what she did! We both realized how much more patience we need with our kids and made us never want to take them for granted. How lucky we are to have overall healthy little kids! I thank my heavenly Father for the lessons we learned through her being sick and I never want to forget how blessed we are!
