Bethany has been sick for a few days now. At first we were thinking it was something minor because she was vomiting small amounts after she was eating and she had some diarrhea. Well, now she just seems to be getting worse. She won't eat anything but she will drink her Powerade, Thank God. ( I mean that literally.) I was thinking about it this morning and I realized it might be the dreaded rotavirus. I had a friend whose little boy went to daycare and got it and had to be hospitalized. The doctor told her that if she had not brought him in when she did he could have died from dehydration. Those little guys get dehydrated so easily.

I researched rotavirus on the internet and it said the incubation period is two days. The symptoms include severe diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and fever. The only way to truly tell is from a stool sample.

The incubation period seems about right for Bethany because she went to Mother's Day Out (she and Macy are in MDO while the older kids do Classical Conversations) on Thursday and she got sick on Saturday. She does have severe diarrhea, vomiting, possibly some nausea but no fever.

I called the doctor today, so we will have to see what her nurse says.