Poor sick baby :( February 24, 2009

I received a phone call at 4:45 from Ariyana’s school saying that she was running a fever of 103.2 including the bump up degree (they add a degree to the temperature if they don’t take it rectally and they don’t take it rectally). I told them I would be there shortly and just make her comfortable as they can. When I got there to pick her up, her teacher told me that she was fine all day and then this afternoon she felt really hot and was kind of clingy. I asked how she ate today (because the last few days she has not been eating as much as usual). Saturday she didn’t eat lunch or all her dinner, Sunday she hardly ate lunch or dinner and Monday her teacher said she barely ate lunch. Her teacher said she didn’t eat very much today either but she did eat a sausage biscuit for breakfast.

She fell asleep on the way to get Zach which she never does, but I just let her sleep because she is sick. She slept in the car for like 45 minutes because we didn’t get home til 7:00. When we got home, we gave her some tylenol and then fed her some dinner. She was eating dinner and all of a sudden she started throwing up. And it was a lot of throw up, it just kept coming. I mean her lunch came back up too, it was so sad because she was getting upset and I know it didn’t feel well. After that, she didn’t want anymore dinner and I don’t blame her at all. I knew she needed some liquids though, so I tried to get her to drink some pedialyte…..she wouldn’t though, nor would she drink any of her milk. She wouldn’t even let me put the cup on her high chair, she would pick it up and hand it to me and whine til I took it off. I did give her cheerios though and she ate them so at least she got something in her little belly. After that, she went to bed at her normal time which is 8pm without a fight. I was worried since she took a 45 minute nap at 6:15 that she wouldn’t go to bed but she did………….she is such a great baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I feel so bad that she is sick.

Doctor here we come October 13, 2008

After all our drama over the weekend with the throwing up and coughing, we decided that Ariyana needed to go to the doctor to make sure she didn’t have anything serious (our niece has a minor case of pneumonia and was around Ariyana).  I was off work today because it was Columbus Day and had an eye doctor appointment in Dahlonega (45 minutes away) at 11am.  So Zach was going to call the doctor when they opened and see what time they could see her.  I told him to try for the afternoon so I would be back in time to take her.

He dropped her off at daycare and on his way to work, he called the doctor’s to see when they could see her.  This was around 8am and they told him they had an opening at 8:15 and he said I will take it.  He turned around and went backc to the daycare, picked up Ariyana, and headed to the doctor’s.  When they got there they went right into the examination room and saw the doctor.  He checked her breathing, ears, nose and throat and decided that she just had a bad cold and lots of congestion.  He said he didn’t see any signs of it being pneumonia and as for the throwing up, he said it was probably a little bit of a stomach virus.  He said it wasn’t contagious and she was okay to go back to daycare.  He said give her Triaminic and Little Nose nasal drops to help with the congestion, and Infant Tylenol for the fever and aching. He also said not to force her to eat but to make sure she had plenty of water, formula, and pedialyte to keep her hydrated.

She went back to daycare and was okay the rest of the day.  When I picked her up, they said she was not herself.  They said she just wanted to be held and that she slept a lot.  The doctor said she might want to sleep a lot and to let her so that was kind of good.  She was the same way when we got home, very clingy and didn’t really want to play.  She did, however, go right to sleep when we put her to bed.