Thursday, December 13, 2007

sick little one

Well we had a fun night and many more up a head. Kenzie comes home Tuesday night and has a low fever and is coughing. I gave her some Tylenol and it didn't seem to help much. I then notice my little girl is wheezing. Great! So I break out the good old breathing machine and start to immediately do a breathing treatment on her. She seems some better so I put her to bed by 7:30. I wake up at 11:30 to go and check on her and she is so hot. I take her temperature and yep...103.2! Yikes. So I wake her up to give her some medicine and then set my alarm clock for 15 min. to check to see if it has started coming down or not. Well she laid there awake but not crying and in 15 min. I check her again and nothing had changed yet...so I thought okay I'll wait 30 min. then check her. Then 30 min. later it had only come down to 102.7. I decided that maybe me and her should get on the couch since she couldn't go back to sleep yet, she wanted me to hold her! Understandably...all I want when I am sick is my mama! So after a while of just cuddling, I check her temp again....still at 102, by this time it is 1:00, so I give her some Motrin by now and wait around some. I put her back to bed and thought I'll see if I can get a little sleep...but no, just worried about her fever and the wheezing...I got back up and I notice she is still wheezing so I get her medicine ready and do another breathing treatment. It is about 3:00 now and she finally started sweating. I was so glad! Sweating means fever has finally broken. After her treatment she went right to sleep and I called in to work and she got up about 8:30. I took her to the Doctor and she gets a chest x-ray and yep...you guess it a "spot" of Pneumonia!!! Yikes here we go again. But this time she got a shot of Rosephin(spelled wrong) and a prescription for Augmentin and breathing treatments every 4-6 hours. She still had some fever this morning and coughing up a storm...but coughing is good and she finally has movement in her chest!!!! Movement is good, that means that the lungs aren't clogged as bad and the phenomena isn't harding to her lungs. URGGGGGG! This is one thing I hate about Winter! Well our winter anyway. It doesn't help when one day it is 30 and the next it is 80. I am not kidding...I has been 78-82 this week here and now today it has decided to start getting a little colder...down in the 50's...I know that isn't cold, but when yesterday she was wearing shorts and today she has on a onsie and a turtle neck! No wonder every one around here is sick to death! It is almost Christmas and it may be shorts weather on Christmas day...how Christmasy is that! Well anyway, I just hope that she isn't spending another Christmas in the hospital. So please say a prayer for her to stay well and get over this little spot! I hope it can be controlled at home. I'll let you know how it goes on Monday for her followup appointment...Oh, and to make it all better, while she was screaming at the doctor's visit yesterday I got a good look in her mouth and she is finally cutting two teeth on top in front and one molar in the back on the bottom...maybe she want have to have dentures :)

1 comment:

Knit Wit said...

So sorry hear she is sick. I was thinking of calling you yesterday but I got so busy with the girls I didn't get a chance.

I hope she is better soon and keep me updated.