Sick again

This week has been very hard for our family. On top of some personal issues I'm dealing with (which will remain private, sorry) A came down with a nasty cold. Last Monday I decided to take her in to the Dr because I was scheduled to watch my niece the next day and I wanted to make sure she would be healthy enough to go with me. Unfortunately, she wasn't. But it wasn't too bad, just a viral cold.

Then her cold symptoms never went away. We (not so) patiently waited the recommended 7-10 days before contacting the Dr again. By day 10 she was miserable. This was our worst day/ night up until that point. After only sleeping 4 (interrupted) hours the night before, Jamie decided to call the Dr while I was out of the house watching my niece. Apparently, A had cried non-stop the entire 2 hours I was gone. By the time I made it home, she was just about asleep due to exhaustion, but we had to rush out the door to her apt with the Dr.

We knew something else was going on and our first thought was her ears. A has only had one ear infection that I recall so it's not like it's common, and thankfully it isn't. It only took the Dr two minutes to diagnose an ear infection. Thank God we had a diagnosis with a type of "cure." I hate when my babies are sick with a viral something and there's nothing I can do to make them better or to make it go away faster.

At this point we were hopeful that we could give her the meds and by that night she would start to feel better. Boy, were we wrong. We got home just in time to get A down for her nap. While she was sleeping Jamie went to the store to get her meds so that they would be ready when she woke up. Once she got up from nap, we noticed that her ear had been draining. Our Dr did warn us about this, so we weren't too concerned. What we didn't know was that it was going to completely change A's mood. We thought her screaming before was bad, but now it was really bad. We made the decision to give her both Tylenol and Motrin every three hours around the clock so we could keep her as comfortable as possible, but by the second dose, we knew that wasn't going to be the case. The pain meds were only giving her about 45 minutes of relief before the pain would set back in. Desperate, I decided to call the Dr back. Thankfully it was only 4 o'clock so the office was still open. At that point they rushed through a prescription for ear drops.

That was the best decision yet. After her first dose, we put a very small piece of cotton in her ear to keep the meds from draining out. At that point, she was able to be content for the three hours between each pain medication dose.

We're now on day two since we started the antibiotics, and A is a new child. She's playing and happy.

A quick minute

So I hopped on here for just a quick minute to write about little Miss. She hasn't been feeling well for the past few days (which is why I haven't been able to do my huge Christmas recap) so I finally took her to the doctor this morning. Thankfully we were given an answer, an ear infection. Lucky for her, she's only had one before this (unlike her mommy) when she was just a few months old. So today we start her on antibiotics and pray that by tomorrow she'll start to feel normal again. The only positive in all of this is that I've gotten more cuddles than usual. So for now, it's off to bed for a much needed nap (while little Miss is taking hers). I'll be back on later today to update my photo for the day here.

Sick baby

For the past week A hasn't been feeling well. Once I noticed something wasn't quite right I went through the whole mommy checklist in my head to try and figure out what could be wrong.

First I thought it was her teeth. But after a day or so on pain meds she wasn't feeling any better.

So I then started to think it was her tummy due to the introduction of whole milk. I gave her a few doses of Colic Calm and cut dairy out of her diet for 24 hours to see if there would be a difference. Nope.

And then the fever begins.

Last night, right before bed, I noticed that A felt a little warm. I got out the thermometer and took her temp, it read 102. I was surprised. I then gave her the usual Tylenol before bed and didn't think anything else of it. That was until this morning when I went to get her up.

She was on fire!

I quickly got the thermometer again and took her temp. Now it read 103.5! Begin mommy freak out mode. I quickly called the Dr to see if they could get us in before I had to go to work in the afternoon. Fortunately they were able to see us at 9am. Once we got there, the Dr checked her over and couldn't find anything wrong with her. Everything looked great. Her ears, chest, and throat all looked fine. That's when we were told to play the waiting game. Wait to see what was going to happen next.

At 3:30pm I arrived back home after work. Jamie had called me about a half hour earlier to tell me she was still hot so I told him to go ahead and give her the meds. I then took her temp and it was now 104.1! Official mommy panic now. I pick up the phone to call the Dr just to check how high her fever should get before I need to bring her in for medical treatment. They then told me that it wasn't so much how high it got, just a matter of if I can get it down. At this point she had her meds in her for almost an hour, so for her temp to still be that high, we were concerned. Fortunately, about 15 minutes later she began to sweat and broke her fever.

As of right now (9pm) she's been hovering around the 100 degree mark. Her Dr did tell me that might be as low as we could get it since it was so high to begin with. I just hope that she can break this overnight so we won't have to head back to the doctor in the morning. Otherwise it's going to be yet another long day.