Last weekend, Emmy started off with Emmy getting her first virus. She woke up Sunday a little warm but still seemed ok. Towards the end of the day, her fever became stronger so we were giving her Tylenol and Ibuprofen. The couple days before this she was waking up in the middle of the night again when she had been sleeping through the night pretty consistently.
On Monday, she became more and more uncomfortable with her fever consistently over 100 so Mommy took her to see the pediatrician. They took her fever and it was really high 105+. They thought it might have been an urinary tract infection so they stuck a catheter in my poor girl and held it in her until she peed. Daddy was sure glad he was at work because Mommy said she cried "bloody murder". Any time anyone walked into the room she covered up Mommy's chest. She apparently didn't stop crying until the end because she wore her self out. They were there almost two hours.
She continued with a fever that night and next morning as we alternated Tylenol and baby Motrin. She still very lethargic in the morning when the doc called us to check on her. Emmy really wasn't showing any signs of improvement and Bo was not sick so our doc suggested the emergency room. There they can run blood work, etc. on her and receive the results back right away. Mommy took her in to the ER and I stayed home with Bo.
The ER of course said right away that they probably won't be able to tell us what it is but they will be able to rule things out. First they held her down and stuck her to get blood. Emmy didn't like that at all. I think Mommy cried with her because of the torture. The worst part is the blood they finally took was clotted so they had to take more. This time they took it from her foot which I personally can't stand to watch. The results came back with a slight increase in white blood cells but nothing abnormal. Then they gave her a chest x-ray to see if anything showed there.
Eventually they just sent her home after about 4-5 hours and said to just keep taking Tylenol and Motrin to keep the fever down. She still ran a fever that night and a little on Weds morning but by the end of the day was pretty much back to her normal self.
Of course, that night Bo woke up about midnight screaming because his ear hurt. It hurt him so much that he wouldn't even let us put a finger on his ear. Even when we took his shirt off his head he screamed because it hurt. He was also running a fever but not too high but we weren't sure because he wouldn't let us take it. Mommy took Bo to the doctor Thursday and she said he had an ear infection which is odd because he still has tubes in. She suspected that he also had what Emily had. Thrs. night he woke up again in the middle of the night with a really high fever and couldn't go back to sleep.
He was so warm that Mommy and I couldn't even be next to him without sweating ourselves. He just is so uncomfortable that he won't even sleep unless he sleeps with us in our bed so that is a battle every night. It seemed to last 3 days with Emmy so hopefully today is the last day he has a fever. He is taking some antibiotic for the ear infection so he can kick that too. I guess it is that time of year again.
On a more positive note, we went to a hayride and night movie in the park of Toy Story last Saturday night. Bo was very excited to ride the tractor and watch the movie afterwards. He had a drink, popcorn, brownies, and his favorite movie under the stars. We stayed for about half the movie before we had to leave to put Emmy to bed. Here is a picture of Mommy and Bo on the tractor.
And one of Daddy and Emmy
Here are also a couple of other fun pictures from the past couple of weeks. Emmy has discovered the swing and loves it just like her brother at that age.
Bo's grammie gave him so new Mickey Halloween jammies that he was very proud to wear.
Here is Daddy's paw-paw and the great grand kids from last month visit.
