Ugh. Let me tell you all about my week. Sunday Will told us that his throat hurt and he was, in fact, becoming hoarse. As we have all been having allergy issues, we gave him some allergy meds and didn't think much more about it. When we got up on Monday, I asked him if her felt like going to preschool. He said yes. I checked him over. He was fine -- looked well, no fever...So I took him.
When I went to pick him up, there was green gunk oozing out of his eye. Alarmed, I took him to the doctor. PINKEYE. She checked him over and said that otherwise, it was just some upper respiratory stuff and to give him Robitussin. She gave us some eyedrops and we went home.
Ben and I decided to quarantine Will because there's not a lot of ways to keep a four-year-old from touching itchy, burning eyes. We got the little TV/VCR combo we'd had in college and hooked it up in his room. We gave him some videos. He was happy to lay in bed (he didn't feel good, after all) and watch TV. We just really felt like he needed to stay away from Adelaide. So after awhile (and huge fits over the eyedrops) he went to bed. He was better on Tuesday, and I thought he might be able to go back to school on Wedensday.
In the middle of the night, however, he woke me up. He was howling. He said his ear hurt. We gave him Tylenol. We gave him Triamenic. We set him up with a heating pad on his ear. I sat up with him for about three hours. I turned Toy Story on the TV/VCR. He calmed down, and he eventually went back to sleep. On Wednesday morning, he woke me up. He said it sounded like there was a train in his ear.
So back we were to the doctor. She had looked at his ears on Monday, and they had looked fine. Wednesday, though, he had a pretty good ear infection in his left ear. As Will is allergic to penicillin, we went to the pharmacy to get a pricey brand-name medicine. The good news, however, was that it smelled like something one would buy out of a concession card at the county fair -- VERY sweet. He takes it fine...but I think it makes him act a little crazy. And he has to take it for ten days.
Thursday, however, Will said he wanted to go to school. Pinkeye was under control and no longer contagious, he said his ear was feeling okay...so I took him. After I dropped him off, I decided to run to Target. I got Adelaide out of her seat and put her in the sling like I usually do. When I did that, though, I noticed that her left eye was really really watery. A little bit later, I noticed it was a little gunky.
So I called the doctors office. Dr. Clark is off today! Dr. West had to go to the hospital and we are still waiting to hear from her. I don't know if I'm going to have to take her in or if they're going to call something in. The pharmacist is, I think, becoming concerned that we are harboring some type of sickeness germ in our home -- in the last three weeks, Adelaide is the only one who hasn't (YET) been on antibiotics, Ben and Will BOTH for ear infections.
Ugh. And now my ten-week-old is sick.
Yuck.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Sick Chil'ins
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