So, in my last post I mentioned that Megan had been running a fever most of the day on Saturday. She was fever free by that night, and has stayed that way until today. She had, though, a horrible cough. I called the doctor late yesterday to see if she could recommend anything for the cough, as NOTHING we had tried had helped. We even were trying her rescue inhaler, but no luck with that, either. Of course, the doctor wants to see her, and we scheduled an appointment for this afternoon. This morning she wakes up feeling pretty bad, and her fever has come back. Instead of calling the doctor to see if we can get an earlier visit, I decide to go on to work, and just keep our afternoon appointment time. I did come home to check on her during my lunch break, and she was still in bed, feeling pretty awful. So... fast-forward to our doctor's visit. As it turns out, she has double ear infections, and really, really bad bronchitis, bordering on pneumonia. How awful do I feel? Like a total cruddy mother. The bronchitis is triggering her asthma, so we have a home health nurse coming in either tonight, or first thing in the morning to set up a home nebulizer so we can give her breathing treatments every 4 hours for the next few days. She is also out of school until Monday. I just can't believe that it progressed so quickly. She didn't even seem that sick to me, except for the cough.
Hopefully, though, she will be back to her cute, well self soon. I sure miss that bubbly personality with she is sick. :(
3 comments:
I despise trying to determine whether the kids are sick enough to warrant a trip to the doctor. You decide to go and it's nothing, you decide to not go and your child is really sick! I feel your pain! Hope Meg is better soon.
So sorry Meg is feeling bad - hopefuly she is feeling a bit better by now.
Mothering is totally a guessing game, sometimes we guess right and some times we don't. Been there done that. We just do the best we can and the kids seem to survive. Just don't let the bad guesses equate to the kind of mother you are. If we were meant to be perfect mothers, then we would have been sent perfect kids. Megan will be fine and as for me, I know you are a great MOM.
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