Sick Sick Baby :(

So remember how we were all healthy for 1 day? Then the worst part came :( Bradley started having an upset stomach on a Thursday, and still on Friday. I know how dangerous dehydration can be for babies and toddlers, so I was doing everything I possibly could to keep him hydrated and keep him drinking his fluids - which all went down the drain on Saturday when he started throwing up everything I gave him. Poor thing couldn't keep anything down! He was still acting like himself on Saturday, wanting to play and laughing, but just could not eat anything and getting sick all day long! Then Sunday was scary - still throwing up and having diarrhea, nothing in his system for days now, and he had NO energy. He was so lethargic it was really scaring me. All he would do was sit on our laps and fall asleep, he just couldn't keep his eyes open, and he started to not even want to drink anything, because he would just throw up right afterwards :( So, I freaked out and took him to Urgent Care. They said they didn't think he was quite to the point of hospitalization yet, but he needed fluids fast. He had lost a lot of weight - went from 24 pounds to 20 :( They gave him some anti-nausea medicine and told us to try to get him to take as much fluids as possible. The meds worked for a little bit, but he was still too sleepy to even drink most of the time, then that night he started throwing up again. That next morning we took him straight to the dr, and she sent us straight to the ER. Bradley had to get an IV - worst thing I've ever seen :( I hate seeing him sick in the first place and seeing him in pain like that just killed me :( He got 2 rounds of fluids, more anti-nausea meds and the ER doc said he was borderline admitting him or not, but he thought we could try to get him to drink more at home and avoid sending him up to the peds unit when there's so much sickness flying around up there. So we took him home, tried to have him drink 1 ounce of fluid every 15 min that he would take it and hoped and prayed that he wouldn't start throwing up again - which THANK GOD - he didn't! He went back to the dr the next day and we could all see he was improving, slowly but surely. We had to REALLY watch what he ate and push fluids for over 2 weeks, and he still isn't back to normal - but pretty darn close. They said that he had a nasty nasty Gastrointestinal Virus that just hit him really hard. I felt SO bad for him and I'm so thankful that he's feeling better. We've been kind of spoiled with him, he's been a very healthy boy his whole life and we haven't had to see him in pain very much, and that was so hard on all of us. Man, being a Mom is hard! I don't want to ever have to see him in pain, it truly breaks my heart and I wish I could take all the pain myself - ten fold - just so he doesn't have to be sad or feel bad. Now that we are finally all healthy, we can't find flu shots anywhere, so hopefully we can keep healthy through the rest of this cold and flu season. And hopefully I can start plumping my boy back up to his normal weight :(