Eli's reflux hadn't improved. So Monday we made an appointment to take him back into the doctor - only I woke up with a fever and feeling like crap, so I stayed home with Cayden and Jeremy went. Good news is, they switched Eli's medicine and he's a whole new baby. Bad news is, I got hit with some crap that I'm pretty sure was out to kill me (and I'm pretty sure it was the flu.) Tuesday night I woke up with a fever of 107 (Jeremy didn't believe me when I told him, so he retook my temp, and my thermometer wouldn't even give him a reading, it just said "high".) I really don't think I've ever been this sick in my life - I've been sick for longer with mono and some sort of weird stomach bug, but I don't think my sickness was ever this extreme.
Obviously I lived, ha ha. However, you know what happens when one person in the house gets sick... Jeremy is now sick, Eli started running a low grade fever but seems to be fine today, but Cayden... My poor Cayden who has only been sick with one ear infection in his whole life got it. And he got hit hard. At first I didn't think it was going to hit him - he had a fever and a slight cough but it didn't stop the tornado and he was still running around like mad. However, I knew when he fell asleep ON me (something he hasn't done in probably a year - or longer) that we were in trouble. Last night was a very rough and scary night where I got very little sleep but didn't even really feel all that tired because I think I was just running on fear. I know that may sound dramatic but if you could have heard Cayden's breathing... We called the pedi, and she said that we could take him into the ER or wait until the offices was open - but she suggested if we could get him back to sleep we just wait. By this time it was 2 AM and when we took Eli to the ER we were there for 6 hours, and in 6 hours the doctor's office would be open. So we waited.
Cayden has croup and an ear infection. He's much better already - they gave him a steroid injection at the doctor's office and it seems to be helping. Eli still seems like he's not getting whatever we got (knock on wood - breastmilk PLEASE do your job!) but that's where I've been.
Breaking the Surface
9 years ago
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croup seems to be going around right now. My nephew had it Mid-January. He may be having a re-occurrence- my sister (his other aunt, his mom and dad are both stationed overseas so he's being co-grandparented, with his aunts/uncles babysitting) thought he was sounding kind of sealish when he coughed. Hope your family feels better soon.
That must have been horrible to be so sick we a new baby around. Something has been going around up here too, at least a quarter of the office was home sick last week.
I hope everyone starts feeling better.
Kat
OMG a 107 degrees?? You should have went to the ER, glad you're feeling better. My daughter got croup a couple times, it is scary that awful barking cough. Hope everyone gets all better soon. just don't pass everything around a second time. I had a stupid cold 3 times in a row with a sinus infection in between. No one else in my family got though, just me.
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