Asking for Prayers

Monday and Tuesday were sightseeing and shopping days here in Guangzhou. Monday we went to a local park . It is a holiday this week in China (Mon-Wed) so there are a lot more people out and about then on a normal day. The park was crowded with people enjoying the outdoors. We saw groups line dancing and many others playing Chinese hacky-sack. We also stopped by a mall for the first of two shopping excursions here in Guangzhou. It was at this stop that we realized Lottie did not seem to be feeling well. She became pretty irritable and fell asleep on the way back to the hotel. We put her down for a nap hoping it was just exhaustion and that she would wake up feeling better.

 

Lottie continued to feel bad throughout the rest of the day and started running a fever after her nap. She was pretty fussy the rest of the night and REFUSED to take any medicine. We tried every trick we knew to get some Tylenol in her system but, as we saw at the medical appointment, Lottie is a fighter!

At breakfast Tuesday morning, we attempted to hide medicine in her normal breakfast porridge, in yogurt, in a spoonful of jelly, and in some baby food. NOTHING WORKED! She did not have much of an appetite and refused to eat all of those things we tried hiding her medicine in. Can we say stubborn!!! We think we got just a tiny bit of Tylenol in her system Tuesday morning and headed off to the Guangzhou zoo with another family. Lottie loves to ride in her stroller and it is the only thing that seemed to calm her down throughout the day, so we decided walking around the zoo might be better than her fussing in the hotel room all morning. She did well at the zoo and was content as long as she was moving. The zoo was crowded, but we were able to see most of the animals and enjoyed just walking around some. We made sure to say, "Roll Tide," to the elephant and, "BOOOOO," to the tigers.
 

 

 
Lottie continued to feel bad throughout the day and ran fever off and on all day too. You can tell she is missing that little sparkle in her eyes in the pictures we took today and we definitely didn't get any smiles out of her. She cried and fussed all day and was not able to nap very well either. She hasn't had an appetite all day, but has at least been drinking water and pedialyte regularly. We went ahead and started her on an antibiotic we brought with us to hopefully knock out any infection she might be fighting. With all of her symptoms, I am wondering if it is her ears bothering her. We will press on with the antibiotic and tylenol again tomorrow and pray our sweet girl comes back out!

I can't even describe to you how we have had to get her to take any medicine. It is quite the circus. She does NOT like it to say the least! Let's just say Chad has had his fingers bitten hard several times as he is prying her mouth open while I squirt some medicine in her mouth and wait for her to swallow.

Please pray that she will begin to feel better. Pray she will sleep well, eat better, and have relief from whatever may be bothering her. Pray also for us as we care for a sick, fussy baby we can't communicate with. We know the Great Physician and pray He will get all the glory in her improvement.