Showing posts with label Ear Infection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ear Infection. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloween Party and ToT

Our weekend of Halloween festivities started off at Morgan's preschool party.  Unfortunately, Rylee woke up with a fever that day so she couldn't attend as planned.  Thankfully Grandma and Grandpa showed up to save the day!  Instead Tenley and I met Paul at Morgan's school.  They start off the party by doing a parade in the downstairs of the church (her classroom is upstairs) and then take a class photo.





Then we head back upstairs to eat and then play games and do crafts.  This year it was a pizza party with chips and cheese puffs. Yum!


Morgan's BFF


After the pizza party, the kids got their dessert of cookies and juice and started on their crafts.  Afterwards they all played Bingo and got their treat bags. I'm so glad Paul and I have flexibility with our work schedules that we don't have to miss these moments.



That following Sunday was ToT in our neighborhood.  It was miserable.  The weather was awful thanks to Hurricane Sandy and my girls were not feeling it.  Turns out the reason two of them weren't feeling it and were a general whiny mess was because they had Hand, Foot and Mouth.  On Friday, Rylee woke up with a fever and Tenley started to get one that afternoon.  After 24 hours it went away but man were they still crabby.  I thought Tenley was getting teeth since she was drooling a ton.  Fast forward to Monday and they both had rashes all over.  We took them to Akron Childrens since it was impossible to get them in anywhere else.  My kids have never had Hand, Foot and Mouth before so I didn't know anything about it.  The doctor did tell us that the rash comes at the end of the illness which meant that it was basically over.  While Tenley was being examined they noticed her left ear was infected so thankfully we caught that and got some antibiotics.  Knowing all of that now, you can imagine how fun ToT-ing was for everyone.




It's a miracle I got them all to look at the camera that day!


Tenley was very confused by Rylee's wig.  She kept giving her the eyeball.


This is what happens when I tell Rylee to get closer.  I meant to her sisters, not my camera.

Paul took Tenley around to our immediate neighbors so they could see her in costume and then brought her back.  It was too cold and she was just not happy.  Mackenzie ended up coming over and joining Mo and Ry since there wasn't much ToT happening in her neighborhood.  I stayed at home with T while the rest of them headed out. They weren't gone that long and when they came back they were soaked. They were just happy that they got candy and continued eating it by the fistfuls.  Better them, then me.




Friday, April 22, 2011

4/22/11: The Middle



I'm calling this the middle because the end better involve Morgan feeling better.  I rarely if ever have to take Morgan to the doctor. I honestly can't even remember the last time she was there for something other than a well visit.  Unfortunately we had to make a trip today and I knew it last night.  I apparently passed on some dominant trait/gene where any kind of illness attacks the eyes. For instance I had mono pretty bad as a teenager and it took a long time for anyone to figure out what I had. Why, you ask? Well, instead of getting an incredibly sore throat like regular people (mine didn't hurt at all) my eyes almost swelled shut. Nice, huh?  Somehow Morgan has picked up the same thing.  Last time she had her one and only ear infection (like 2 years ago) her eyes had horrible drainage and got super puffy and red.  Last night I noticed the drainage from her nose had turned green. Warning sign #1.  Warning sign #2 happened when her eyes started to get all goopy.  I was fairly certain she had an ear infection because the day before last she was complaining that her ear hurt.  

Morgan was not a happy camper about going to the doctor.  She wouldn't get weighed, she wouldn't let the doctor look at her throat or mouth.  Another clue I knew she did not feel good because she is usually a little chatter box wanting to do everything. As soon as the doctor looked in her ears she told me they were infected. Both of them and pretty bad.  So we got an RX for amoxicillin (trying to give it to  her is a whole other story..) and headed on our way.  We head back to check up on her ears in 2 weeks since there was a lot of fluid built up.  She's so sad to look at right now. My poor little baby. :(