I went back to the ER yesterday afternoon and was admitted. I was throwing up all evening. Turns out I have the stomach flu on top of the tonsillectomy, so keeping pain meds down and keeping myself hydrated was not an option. I stayed last night and was supposed to stay tonight too, but we don't have any help at home with the kids. Our neighbors have been lifesavers, but they all have kids of their own and obviously aren't able to just STAY at my house. My in-laws have a bar-b-q or something to go to and apparently think I should be feeling fine by now, so they aren't offering any help. Don't even get me started on that right now.

Arie will be having his feeding tube placed a week Friday. We were going to do it tomorrow, but I'm still in too much pain to devote all of my time to him, and Ben has to work this weekend to make up hours he's missed this week because of me. Arie will be in the hospital for 3-4 days. Lets just HOPE I'm better by then. From what I hear (from other adults that have had their tonsils out) the severe pain lasts about 2-3 weeks and then tapers off.

I'm off to take my next dose of meds!