Its no surprise that the winter cold/flu season has infected our house. Its been a roller coaster few weeks that started with Karl getting the stomach flu right when he was supposed to leave for a conference in Las Vegas. It was so bad that he ended up cancelling the whole trip to stay home in bed. It took 3 full days for him to recover but now he is back to normal and feeling fine. For me its been an on-and-off cold/cough for a few weeks. The week after Karl had the flu I felt the worst for a day or two but I seem to have kicked it now.
For Ally, she had been fighting a cold for a few weeks just like me and it made her so crabby and tired. It finally got the best of her with a cough that kept her up most of the night for 2 nights. We tried elevating her matress, vapor rub, humidifier, etc... but nothing was working. I decided to take her to the doctor just to be sure it wasn't bronchitis because a cough has never really been one of her key symptoms before. Turns out her chest and lungs were fine but both ears were infected. Got her on antibiotics and all was improving (including her mood finally) until last week Monday when she spiked a 102 fever that would not go away. Karl was out of town and I stayed home with her on Tuesday but still couldn't get her fever down. She was happy as could be and acting totally fine so I called the doctor for advice in the afternoon. He decided to switch her antibiotic to a stronger one to see if that would help and sure enough, gave her a dose of the new stuff with some Tylenol and she was back down to a normal temp by bedtime.
We know that we are very lucky to rarely have any health issues to deal with. Unfortunately having a little one in day care means that when she brings it home, we all get it and most of the time its worse for us than for her. I have also learned through this that when Ally acts out of control crabby that she has an ear infection!
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