House of Sickies

Poor baby had a run of sickness that made her and us miserable! Her nose had been runny and she had been stuffed up for weeks. We didn't go in because I just figured it was something

viral and it would eventually go away. She started running high fevers and just wasn't herself for almost and entire week. I finally decided to take her in and the new doctor that we had to see was snotty and said it might be a sinus infection but since she was too young to have sinuses he doubted it. What?? Anyway we left with a scrip for an antibiotic. We are at the stage where she is completely horrible to give medicine to. She coughs, spits and fights until she has either successfully got all 3cc on us or throws up. We did this for 3 days but the fevers persisted. I had used up all of the sick days that I could take from work so Robb had to stay home with her. She was still miserable and we were at our wits end. He took her back to the doctor and this time we got to see our favorite PA Becky. She has always been wonderful to our kids and believes parents when they say something is wrong.

Robb explained her symptoms to Becky and she agreed that something just wasn't right. She didn't like the fact that she was still having fevers while on antibiotics so the poor baby had to have a bunch of tests to rule everything out. They did a respiratory viral panel (which I thought was going to show influenza, lab work, a cath urine and an xray. I kept getting calls at work from Robb about all of the tests they were running. I felt awful that I wasn't there to hold my sweet girl. This was one of those times that I was really sad to be a working mommy and have to be away when my kids needed me. Don't get me wrong, Robb is perfectly capable of handling any kid situation but I just wanted to hug her too. The verdict after all the test came back was pneumonia. I guess it pays to be persistent parent and go to a doctor that you trust.

We got another round of antibiotics and felt horrible for Emmy but were glad to have an answer of why she hasn't been herself for so long.

I wish she felt better but I do love days on the couch snuggling with her.

Emmy started to feel better after a couple days of antibiotics but on to the next sicky in the house. Caleb started to have respiratory issues and it almost seemed like he had full blown asthma. I think we let his allergies get out of control and it really hit him hard. It usually happens in the spring when we aren't in the routine of giving him his 3 allergy meds every night. I guess this just proves how much he really needs them. He had to do Albuterol nebulizers every 4 hours for 2 days and then he was feeling better. Emerson thought the nebulizer was the coolest thing ever!

She didn't need respiratory treatments but I guess we know if she ever does it won't be a fight. She loved trying this on.