I took Araceli to the doctor on Friday because she seemed to have the flu. The doctor wanted to do a swab test to see if she had the flu. Well, when they put a q-tip up her nose they started a nose bleed. This was around noon.They couldn't finish the test so they assumed she had a flu and prescribed medication. Tamiflu which costs me 50.00! Well, we went home and she had another nose bleed around 3pm. Then around 10:30pm Angelique was playing around and hit her in the nose with a care bear. Araceli and Angelique then fell back to sleep when the nose bleed started again. Angelique is such a heavy sleeper so it was hard to wake her up. It was funny because she finally got up and instead of waking up Amerika she went to the restroom and layed back down. I had to shake her awake again, then she woke Amerika. Amerika sat with Araceli while I called the hospital to get a confirmation that this was pertinate enough to go, then Amerika said Araceli had just coughed up some blood. That was enough to convince me! Of course, I hung up the phone, and took off. We go to the hopital and signed in, when the nurse called us in to take her blood pressure and weight, Araceli threw up blood all over her clothes and floor. They immediately put her on the stretcher and when they were inserting the IV she just calmly asked "Why are you doing that?" She was admitted and they suctioned up the blood and stopped it with a powdery substance. She had to stay over night to make sure it was not anything internal. She could only have soup and popsycle. It turns out that she was swallowing her own blood and therefore her body rejected it by throwing it up.
