Not Much to Post From the Sick Family!

We've finally experienced the whole-house sickness. It started last Friday night with Evan running a high fever that never broke the whole weekend. The entire weekend he wanted to be held. I had to sleep with him on my chest for three nights (ouch)! I managed to get Evan in to see the doc on Monday and found out he had a blazing ear infection. He got a shot of a high dose antibiotic and I had to bring him back on Tuesday for a second course of the antibiotic. This is only his second major ear infection, so that's not too bad I think. We were able to get Evan back to daycare on Wednesday afternoon.

T took to the sick bed on Sunday and didn't really emerge until Tuesday to go the doctor. I started getting the funk on Sunday and I'm still trying to kick it. T has a sick-pass from the doc for work, and he stayed home all week. I went in to work yesterday feeling miserable and stayed home today and slept most of the day. T's prescription cough medicine worked miracles!

Hope to back to our cheery selves this weekend. ;-)

3/31/07: Day 260 (Sat.) Missing Grandma

Grandma went back to Florida today. She's been staying with us helping to take care of Evan since last October. We were sad to see her go and hope she comes back soon. Evan's fever is gone, so one less thing to worry about. We still have the antibiotics for 9 more days and the nebulizer treatments until Monday.

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Chronological age: 37 weeks and 1 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 6 months, 2 week and 1 days
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3/30/07: Day 259 (Fri.) Playing Hooky with Grandma

Evan got to play hooky from daycare today with grandma. He's tolerating the nebulizer treatments a bit better. The children's mask we have to use is cute, it's a dragon, so it looks like he's a fire-breathing dragon with it on. I'll try to get a picture. His fever is still up a bit, so we're still giving him the infant Tylenol.
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Chronological age: 37 weeks and 0 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 6 months, 2 week and 0 days
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3/29/07: Day 258 (Thurs.) Ear Infection :-(

We kept Evan home today due to his fever coming and going. His doctor appointment was at 2pm. We didn't get to see Dr. Ettinger, but one of his nurse practitioners, Jean. She was quick to diagnose both ears were infected, poor guy! He wasn't showing any of the typical signs of an ear infection, just running a fever from yesterday. We anticipated that he had some respiratory funk going on since he had an odd cough from last week. She listened to his chest and said that he sounded very squeaky.

She ordered up an albuterol nebulizer treatment in the office and a mega-dose antibiotic shot. Evan hated the nebulizer and scremed his head off the whole time. At least we knew he was breathing in deeply with all the screaming. To make things worse, they gave him the shot afterwards. One of the thick shots that takes about a minute to push through.

So, needless to say, Evan was not a happy guy! Jean said his chest did sound better after the treatment. As a follow-on, we have to give him home nebulaizer treatments every 4-6 hours and a twice daily dose of liquid antibiotic (it actually tastes like candy). We have to see Dr. Ettinger on Monday to see how he's improving.
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Chronological age: 36 weeks and 6 days
Adjusted/developmental age: 6 months, 1 week and 6 days
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