"I was gonna go to sleep, but then I got high"

I do believe Bug had a scary dream. 10:15pm she woke up with a scream. Literally, an ear-piercing, holy-shit-somethin's-coming-to-get-me scream. One of those long ones that only break when she's taking a breath.

I ran in and she was sitting in the corner of her crib and you could tell she was freaked out. I comforted her and she was ready to fall back asleep but all that trauma and screeching must have knocked loose some snot because her nose was plugged. There was no amount of aspirating that was gonna help. So I decided to give her some Benadryl (hey, doctor's orders!).

Josh came home as I was giving it to her so he got to see the effects. That chick went crazy the first ten minutes! I think they put Speed in Children's Benadryl just to screw with the parents.

Last time I gave it to her she was tired to begin with so she went to sleep right away and was very lethargic when she woke up. I'm hoping she tires out soon. I know I'm tired!

No Jinx-Backs!

I woke up this morning feeling great. Not perfect but good enough. Bug slept through so I was able to get 8 full hours of sleep (except for the four times I woke up cause she made a noise and I was positive she would wake up) and felt so much better for it. I took one look at my filthy, pigsty house and got the insane urge to clean. After an hour I realized I was going to wear myself out and end up back at square one. I took it slow, got the upstairs clean and am saving the downstairs for tomorrow...hopefully. I can't stand a dirty kitchen.

Bug's doing better. The saline solution is doing wonders. She hardly coughs anymore so it's just the nose we have to take care of. It's quite disgusting. Still, no matter how sick she's still in good spirits.

Last night Josh wasn't feeling too well but luckily he felt fine when he woke up today. So maybe we'll all be better soon after all. ahh crap I just jinxed myself again didn't I?

Still sick :(

I was hoping to be able to write a nice "we're all healthy" update today but alas, that's not the case. Our family has had five doctor's visits in two weeks. Sheesh. Bug alone has had three in one week.

Saturday I was running a bit of a high temp so I went down to Urgent Care so they could put me on antiobiotics. They checked me out and gave me a scrip for a Z-Pac. Whatever that is. I'm taking it and we'll see how well it works. I still feel like crap.

Josh took yesterday off so I could try to relax which was nice but Bug didn't have the same thing in mind. She went to bed at 10pm and woke up at 1am. Wouldn't go back to sleep until 4am and was in our bed which means she was on me and I got no sleep. Great. Then she decided to wake up at 6am for the day. Me so tired :(

I had to take Bug back to the doctor today because she's not getting any better. The doctor we saw on Thursday was out so we saw a different doctor that we liked in the past. She said she doesn't think Bug has Bronchiolitis. She thinks it's just a bad respiratory illness. Her orders are saline solution three times a day or take her to the beach and dunk her in the ocean. I think I'll take option #1 :) She also said it was ok to give her cold medicine and recommended Children's Benadryl. Benadryl usually makes people sleepy so I figure I can use that to my advantage, she agreed. Mommy's sneaky :)

So the update is two-thirds of our family is sick. Josh is back at work for another six days so I have to muddle through on my own. At times like this I wish we lived closer to family. Wish us luck!

Nope, wouldn't have made it in the '30s

8 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

Wonder, wonder, wonder...

I feel like crap. Josh came home early last night to put the baby to bed for me. Since he didn't have to work until noon today I took some NyQuil to help me sleep. NyQuil knocks my ass out. To the point where I don't remember much the next day.

Apparently, Bug woke up some time around 1am. I don't really remember what happened I just know the basics from Josh. He spent an hour or two in her room trying to get her back to sleep. After giving up he brought her into our room. Which I'd expressed to him was a big no-no since I wouldn't wake up if I rolled on her or something. Luckily (in my opinion anyway) she wouldn't sleep with us either. So around 4am he took her back into her room and apparently she went to sleep on her own. I don't know. All I remember is waking up around 4:30 and freaking out about the baby, she was sound asleep in her crib so I went back to bed. That's all I know.

I woke up this morning feeling so much worse than yesterday. I was hoping to be able to get some good sleep last night but with Bug being awake for three hours that didn't happen. Oh well. Maybe tonight. For now I need to figure out how to make it through the day. I'm taking DayQuil but I don't think it's working. I'm thinking about going to the doctor so I can get some antibiotics to clear me up quicker. Wonder if they'll prescribe anything for a cold...wonder if there's a doctor's office open on a Saturday....wonder if I'll work up the energy to find one and make a call....wonder if I'll ever end this post....wonder....

Good thing I don't fill prescriptions

I got an email from my mom today that had a bit of information about Bug's meds in it.

Pediatrics: Use only in children whose visual acuity can accurately be determined and monitored (not recommended for use in children under 13 years of age unless the benefit outweighs the risk).

Ummm, nobody told me this. So I went online to see what I could find out for myself. I was confused with what I read so I got the bottle to make sure I was spelling it right and yeaaaaaaa.
I wasn't. It's not Arbutol. It's Albuterol. Nice.

So anyway. I don't know whether it's the medicine, the crib elevation or what the deal is but Bug slept for over 13 hours last night. In fact the only reason she woke up this morning when she did is because Daddy went in to check on her and he had just sprayed that damn body spray on himself and she smelled him. I think this because when she wakes up in the mornings she's always happy, even when sick. This time she was crying. My opinion is "I know daddy was here now where the hell did he go?!!?"

She does seem to be feeling a bit better this morning but we'll see how the day goes. I decided to strap her into her highchair for the Godzilla portion of our morning. I have to give her this stuff three times a day.

Oh, and if this post doesn't make sense it's because I'm sick. Full blown sick. Nose, throat, cough, head, brain. Blech.

Bronchiosaurus

*I started writing this at 2pm but the power went out for over an hour due to the storm so I'm continuing it now at 6pm

**Apparently at 6pm I forgot I had a sick child to tend to so I will be finishing this post now, at 8:30

Bug's cough is so bad today that I decided to call the Pediatrician's Office to see if I could give her some sort of OTC decongestant (based on a suggestion by a friend). Answer was no but after describing her condition they told me I need to bring her back in. If she has an ear infection I worry for them because I'm sure they'll have a nasty visit from that same friend (whose picture I'm never allowed to post online).

Anyway, I told the nurse which doctors I was OK with and, more importantly, which doctors I did not want seeing my child. I also told her I wanted a time that would allow us to be in and out quicker without all the wait (also suggested by the aforementioned, picture-shy friend). She ended up giving us a 4pm appointment with a doctor we'd never seen before. We'll see how it goes. It's a good thing I didn't take the 2pm appointment she'd offered me or I'd have to take Bug out in this:

This was a light moment!

In case you were wondering,

the backwards alphabet in the lower right corner is Sesame Street

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Ok, so we've been to the doctor, who I love. Bug liked her a lot too, she liked her paper/pen even more.

Even though Bug hasn't been eating even half her regular foods and what she has been eating has been mostly juice for the past three days she still managed to gain weight since Monday. She's 20.3lbs. Of course she hasn't pooped today either. Believe me, those bowel movements account for a lot of weight!

Moving past the feces talk.....

Here's what the doctor told me:

• When she got her finger pricked it was to make sure the infection was viral and not bacterial. (I asked for clarification due to, you guessed it! A suggestion from that wonderful friend who has been through it all!)
• Her ears both look perfectly fine.
• The Amoxicillin is working well for the initial infection but she has developed Bronchiolitis.
• We're lucky that we caught it this early because a couple more days and it may have worsened to the point where she would need to be on a Nebulizer. As it is, if her cough doesn't get better within the next two days or if it gets any worse, we have to bring her back in and she would need to use a Nebulizer

She is now on Amoxicillin, Arbutol and Motrin. Good thing she doesn't mind taking meds!

An interesting thing happened this evening. We were upstairs in Bug's room and I was elevating one side of her crib while she played. All of a sudden she became a terrorizing monster. Crawling at warp speed, pulling books off shelves by the dozen, ripping heads of stuffed animals (ok not really that last one), the whole time panting heavily. The whole scene made me think of a rabbit on speed for some reason. Anyway, as I'm starting to freak out thinking I accidentally gave my kid steroids and she's now on a Roid Rage I hear the doctor's voice in my head, "There is a big side effect that I need to tell you about. Arbutol will make her very hyper for a short bit." Ahhh crap. That kid has more energy than she can use in a day and we just multiplied it.

So after spending twenty minutes going Godzilla on her room all of a sudden she crashed. I think she overloaded. She started freaking out crying over the littlest thing and wanted to be held. So I held her, we went downstairs and watched Sesame Street. Then I think she had withdrawals, kept picking imaginary bugs off her arms..... (I jest, don't worry)

So point is, my poor baby is sick, I can hear her coughing in her sleep through the baby monitor as we speak. And I'm sick...just not as sick....and hopefully it'll stay that way.