It’s been a month now since everyone in the house has been
generally healthy and it’s starting to wear on me. Back on July 1st Lillian had a high
fever and just didn’t feel good, on the second the spots in her mouth appeared
and she was diagnosed with Hand.Foot.Mouth.
On the 6th I started feeling like crap and
continued to have a sore throat, cough and loss of voice for the next 5 days.
On the 14th Laney came down with what I think was
my cold. After a week of her coughing
and news of a whooping cough outbreak in the area, I took her to the doctor. 4 days of antibiotics and she was doing
better.
We had 2 days of a “healthy” family (B had a little cough
but nothing major). Then all of a sudden
Friday morning Lillian woke up with a horrific cough, sore throat and barely a
voice. Saturday I took her to Urgent
Care (UC) since our Doctor’s office wasn’t open. But before we got there she had peed her pants
4 times and even ran to the bathroom to go again while she was changing her
clothes from one of her accidents “it hurts to pee mommy”. Great!
She went to the bathroom right before we left and by the time we got
there she had to go again, it was maybe 15 minutes.
So rather than just putting down, cough and sore throat, I
added possible Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). The admitting nurse looked at me like I was
crazy and asked what made me think that. So I explained the morning and she acted as if
she was going to blow it off as her just not feeling well, but she did suggest
that I ask the UC receptionist for a pee hat because they’d probably test her
urine. Lillian was going to the bathroom
every 10-15 minutes while we waited. I
never realized what a work out I could get by trying to hold Laney and help
Lillian go to the bathroom.
We had a very nice doctor who seemed to share my beliefs in
not giving medication unless it’s absolutely necessary. She was diagnosed with croup (again) and
mommy was right, a UTI. So she did end
up with antibiotics for that. Today (3
days later) she still refuses to take cough medicine and I can’t seem to get
the mucus out of her chest so she coughs and coughs. Of course she likes taking the antibiotic
though so that’s good.
As that was going on, B managed to get a hernia and the next
morning his knee was swollen and sore again. He tried working yesterday, but he was in a
lot of pain when he got home last night so today he will be making a trip to
the Urgent Care.
Plus Delaney has been having more spit up and crying
episodes again. At first they seemed to
be generally at night so I just chalked it up to a typical infant fussy time. Well, then the sitter called and said she was
acting strange there (apparently she’d never done the back arching, no you can’t
sit crying fit) there (that was back on the 13th). Then yesterday, T, Lillian’s sitter was
watching her and said she hadn’t really been sleeping, she was fussy all day
and it was the worst after eating. She
was also still spitting up 2.5 hours after eating and doing her arching of the
back. So this after noon we are off to
the Doctor again…
I’m getting worn out, I don’t know if I can take much more
whining and crying…
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