Man, what a difficult week we had! It all started on Friday, the 1st, when Lake had been asleep for 11 hours straight. I woke him up (because I was about to pop!) and he felt really warm. I took his temperature and it was 101. I knew his restful night was too good to be true! I hurried and took Kaydriana to daycare and stopped by the store to get some baby acetaminophen and ib profin. By the time I returned home, about a ½ hr later, his temp rose to 101.5. I was a bit worried and decided to stay home with him all day.
He wanted to be held or nursed all day and that’s really all up to mommy.
On Saturday, he woke up to 101.5 temperature again. Since the last time he was sick, and I waited a while to take him in, only to find out he had a double ear infection, I decided I wasn’t messing around this time. I took him in and he ended up having a severe sore throat and another ear infection. This was now three times in 2 months!
So I nurse my poor baby back to health, and while his temp finally stayed down by Saturday night, he was still very cranky and snotty Sunday so we stayed home, except for watching some of the Super bowl at our neighbor’s house.
Monday I go to work all day, exhausted! My boss wasn’t too thrilled with the fact that I didn’t come in on Friday, but she “understood” I was concerned about Lake and that he needed his mom…
Tuesday was going well. I had my birthday lunch with my boss to look forward to and went to go pump before we left. That is when I discovered a missed call from the daycare. My heart sunk, thinking it was about Lake. It was Kaydriana. They called to say that she had fallen asleep during play time Outside! Obviously that was cause for concern so they took her temperature, which was 102 degrees. That morning she had woken up at 430 and would not go back to sleep. She was kind of hyper and acting silly, but seemed fine. And because I help get her dressed and brush her hair, I would have felt if she was burning up, so this came as a surprise to me.
What really added some difficulty to this situation was that I had to park at the off site parking lot and had to get gas, otherwise there would be no way I could have gotten to her. Thankfully, my Admin offered to drive me to get my car. 45 minutes after the call, I finally get to Kaydriana. She is asleep on her matt and won’t wake up for me. So I pick her up like a little baby and she starts shaking. My eyes pricked with tears, this was my little baby girl and I felt so helpless!
I get her home and lay her in bed with me after giving her some medicine to help with the fever. She slept for a couple of hours, tossing and turning and talking in her sleep. She finally wakes up absolutely drenched in sweat! Since she tells me her ears do not hurt her, I decided to not take her to the doctor and see how her fever does. She is hungry when she wakes up and that’s a good sign. I returned to work and left her in Tim’s hands for a few hours. When I get home she is laying on the couch, lethargic, and so much heat is radiating off of her skin! I give her some more medicine and when that kicks in, she’s hungry again and eating pedialyte popsicles.
Daycare says she has to be symptom free for 24 hours before she can return, so Wednesday I spend the morning with her and Tim spends the afternoon. You can always tell when the medicine kicks in because she playful and goofy. I was optimistic that I’d be able to take her to daycare on Thursdaywith no issues. That was until she comes into my room and tells me her eye hurts. Even in the darkness I can tell her eye is puffy. I turn on the light to find her eye is bright red and crusty. PINK EYE! Ugh. So again I have to tell my boss that I can’t come in until the afternoon. Thankfully, I had drops from the last pink eye bout and promptly administered drops. She went back to daycare on Friday with no incident and Tim and I were left in a daze of sick, crusty, snotty kids and now not feeling too hot ourselves.
But now it’s Monday again. We’re all basically healthy and will try to enjoy it until the next germ-fest enters our family.
Oh my goodness, what an ordeal!! Glad that it sounds like you have made it through the worst of it, it is so hard when the kids are sick and they always seem to be one right after the other when there are two!
ReplyDeletePraying that you get through the rest of the winter without any more sickness. I totally understand on the calling in to work ... it's so frustrating and hard when you can't do anything about it, but you are mommy first, and job comes after that!
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