Good: we got to go on our date Saturday night! Bad: Landry still has diarrhea. Ugly: Jason has been traumatized by a serious poo incident!
The date was awesome! We went to Line Camp and had a mediocre steak, but everything else was great. They make these hand stuffed peppers that are very tasty. Then, we went to see Superman Returns. He has somewhat of a tarnished image in this one, but it was still an enjoyable movie. We planned on going to the Coffee Grinder after the movie, but it was all shut down, windows papered up and everything. Evidently the Starbucks has hurt their business!
Landry hadn't had an episode since 10:45 a.m. Saturday, so we felt like maybe we had gotten over the diarrhea. Wrong again! She's still having it, as recent as this morning (twice already). We took her to the doctor yesterday. He called it short gut syndrome, or slick gut syndrome. Sometimes when kids get a virus, they get over the bug itself but then everything they eat passes straight through because their body is not absorbing the nutrients. He said this could last two weeks. Our little girl seems to go to the extreme with her illnesses! Not just an ear infection, but MRSA in the ear. Not just a virus, but the whole slick gut business!
To the traumatic experience. You see, we've been having Landry in diapers the past week because she just can't get to the bathroom in time. No telling how many times we washed her sheets in the past week because of leakage issues in the middle of the night. It was a little after 5 a.m. Monday morning when Jason is waking me up, "Jen, Landry's in here." After trying to figure out who I was and where I was, I say, "SO!" He said, "She's made a mess in the bed." Oh, man, I was sleeping so good. So, I get up and go survey the situation. She was laying at the edge of the bed, snuggled up to Jason. I could see the poo that had leaked out of her diaper on the outside of the bed. I'm kind of struggling to get my senses about me, not really rushing around. Finally, Jason is about to lose it, "Could you hurry and get something done about this mess?" He was basically paralyzed. What I didn't realize was that there was poo all over him and her, not just the minor mess that I had seen on the bed! It was seriously gross and he was on the verge of a breakdown. I moved as quick as I could to get it cleaned up so that they could head to the shower. It all got better eventually. Jason called me at work later that morning asking if they had counseling for this kind of thing! He feels genuinely victimized and traumatized by this catastrophic event. Pray for our princess to start absorbing some food, it would help all of us!
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