So as I mentioned Abby was sick in the last post, fever and slight runny nose. I thought, "oh, just another common cold virus, she's in daycare, she's bound to get these things." Well I was right, it was a virus, just not the virus I had though. Sunday morning, she was still off her game. Still had fevers, irritable, and clingy. I tried feeding her that morning, and she just would not have any of it. Then I noticed that she was drooling, she never drools. While she was screaming, I took a peak in her mouth. It looked horrible, white, pussy, blisters. NOT GOOD. So, off we went to the Urgent Care. Lucky for us, her pediatrician office has urgent care hours on Sunday. The Doctor looked in her ears, they looked slightly suspicious, but not enough to warrant all her symptoms, then she looked in her throat, her face looked horrified. She quickly determined that was the source of infection. A rapid strep was done, which was negative. Strep throat is pretty uncommon in kids less than 2, but I actually would've preferred that to the actual diagnosis. Her white blood cell count was elevated, and since she did not have any rash, she thought it may be bacterial and put her on antibiotics, and was told to continue to give small frequent feeding of anything she would take. So we went back home. She continued to not eat or drink, and then it happened....she got the rash. Tiny little blister filled bumps began to erupt on her butt, her hands, her feet, and her face. There it was....Hand, Foot, Mouth disease. Poor thing, she was miserable until Tuesday. She has since recovered, and is back to her normal self, shoveling food into her mouth, pulling her car out from it's "parking space" by the fireplace to walk, and smiling. I missed my smiling baby those couple days. So, she got better, but spent the week at home to not spread it at daycare. We talked to her daycare, and they stated that there had been a case of Hand, Foot, Mouth that previous Friday, so yup, that's where she got it. I'm sure it won't be the only thing she catches from there. Some of you may say, "did you stop the antibiotics?" Antibiotics do not do anything against viruses. No, we did not, because lucky Abby, also has a raging ear infection evident at her 9 month check up on Wednesday, so she will continue her antibiotics. Other than that, she was a healthy, happy 9 month old.
So as Abby was getting better, I noticed a tiny red bump on the sole of my foot on Monday. "Oh, great I thought, I have it too." Well, I did not have a sore throat or fever, so I shook it off and thought, well maybe it's just a little Athletes foot or something. Tuesday day rolls around, and now I have a scratchy throat. It just escalated from there. I never got a fever, but I felt fatigued, my throat looked atrocious, and then the rash came. The literature states that adults who get the disease tend to get it milder, guess I was one of the "rare" ones who got a "worst case scenario. " Lucky me. Wednesday night consisted of me crying the whole night because my hands and feet were intensely itchy. Nothing helped but shoving my hands into ice cold water to numb the pain. Thursday morning, Andrew told me to go into Urgent Care to get "something." I'm sure he did not appreciate my crying the whole night, even though I was on the couch. But being the stellar husband he is, worked from home that day and took care of Abby. I went to the Doctor and came back with Hydroxyzine for the itching and a steroid burst. I took the steroid and 2 pills of Hydroxyzine to knock me out. I slept for 3 hours. I woke up with tolerable itching, and was on the mend. So as of today, I am better, no itching, my hands and feet are just sore. So beside looking like I have leprosy, I am back to normal. It was a rough couple days, and I do not wish this disease on anyone.
Thanks to this disease, Andrew's family decided not to visit this weekend. We were looking forward to them coming and catching up, but I cannot blame them in the least. It was rough having one kid with this. I couldn't imagine if both their kids caught it. I would also feel horrible, knowing they caught the disease from our house. So, we will have to plan another time for them to visit. Maybe when it is warm, and we can take the kids somewhere, like the Children's museum or the Zoo. Until then, I will work on decontaminating our house. I am also not sure how Andrew has not caught this, maybe he had it as a child or maybe he's just lucky. Either way, I hope he does not get it.
So, I got word this week that my next clinical site is in Sandstone, MN. I was excited to hear that I got a site and quickly Google mapped where Sandstone, MN is. I found it. I also had to enlarge the map 3 times to even see where Minneapolis was. Oh joy, my commute to this clinical site will be 1.5 hours each way. It's 87 miles from my house. Joy. Apparently someone in the Georgetown clinical placement office can not do their job very well. Lets just say, I am less than pleased. Here is to hoping this clinical site is AWESOME, and the commute will be worth it.
Its snowing.....I hate snow, when its supposed to be spring. I'm over it. Bring on the 60 degree weather, so I can take Abby outside and let her little toes touch the soft green grass. I have a feeling I may have to wait awhile longer as their is another snowstorm expected for Monday.
9 1/2 months, I think that is pretty gosh darn good, that is for breastfeeding. Recently Abby has discovered her teeth can bite. She bit me a couple times in the past, but the past couple days she has decided that she needs her little vampire fangs to extract milk. I do not know why she thinks this, but I'm done. It hurts. I thought that I may miss it, I may loose that bond with her, but as I was bottle feeding her today it dawned on me that we will always have that bond. She's my daughter, and we will never loose that mother/daughter bond. My mom and I have it, and she hasn't breastfed me in 28 years. Andrew and Abby have a bond and he does not have boobs. So, yes, I am done. Besides I'm pretty sure she like bananas, peaches, and any other food we give her now better anyways.
So, that has been our awful week. Here's to a better weekend. I leave for DC on Thursday for school. It will be my first time traveling alone. To say I'm nervous is an understatement. Maybe I should have paid more attention to what Andrew was doing when we traveled instead of just following, but if unaccompanied minors can do it, I'm sure this 28 year old can as well. Besides, it can't be any worse than this week. Happy St. Patty's Day!!
Changing her diaper and putting her clothes back on it probably the worst thing you can do to her. So she gets to go sans pants a lot.
Just chillin' in the laundry.
Felling much better!
Big Smiles :)
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