Another day of no food for Dallas. :( To make matters worse, we lost his IV. We tried to explain once again that he is an incredible difficult stick and they seemed to sort of listen....but we still went through the same song and dance that we always do. We took him down to the ER, since that is where their best IV starters are, and they tried twice with no luck.

They contacted the PICU, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and the doctor working over there today came by to talk with us. The plan is to start a central line underneath his collar bone. He has to be sedated for this and there are some risks of infection or blood clot. We don't feel like we have much choice on this one, so we said let's go ahead with it. We are hoping at this point that they can get the line in his chest; otherwise it has to go in his neck which would be less than ideal (as he would have to be intubated again to put the line in).

On the upside, the smelly child did get to have a bath today! Took a few of us to get it all organized, but it was nice to get him into some fresh jammies that were not stained with pee and bile!