Way Back When-esday: In Sickness

Dateline: November 13, 2009

Age: 18 months

Why did I pick this picture? It was the first time Jill ever had an ear infection, it was also her first febrile seizure. We have been seizure free for over a year (knock on wood), but definitely not ear infection free.  

Jill's ear infection is hopefully on the mend and the strep test came back today and was negative (woo hoo!). I even saw a glimpse of the old Jill (who by the way suddenly prefers Jillian) this morning:

So thankful we are on the mend, and definitely thankful that we are past those first few episodes with ear infections. 

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Mother's Intuition

I mentioned yesterday how poor Jilly is sick and I thought it was an ear infection, but the doctor thinks it's strep. It very well could be a combination, however, Mom M.D. was right about the ear infection after all.

Last night after the kids were in bed and Scott and I finally settled in to watch Army Wives, Jill woke up vomiting and spiked a fever of 103.1. I knew what was up and we made the debate of waiting until the morning or taking her to the ER. You see, 103 is the magic number in my mind. Anytime that Jill had a febrile seizure it was usually right after she hit 103 and then it spiked after that. The number makes me sweat, even though she hasn't had a seizure the past few times (knock on wood).  

Scott volunteered to take Jill to the ER because he wanted me to get some sleep since I would be home with the kiddos all day. Have I mentioned that I love that man? Truly, I do. 

They were at the ER pretty much all night, I think they finally got home around 5. Jill caught a quick snooze while she was there:

And after the doctor diagnosed her with an ear infection, she enjoyed a yummy popsicle:

So far this morning she has been doing much better. She's been holding down food and liquids (knock on wood!) and seems to be feeling better. She only had a slight fever first thing and I'm hoping once the antibiotics kick in we'll be over this.  We've been coloring all morning in our new coloring book, so I think we're heading in the right direction.

Thanks for all the kind words on here and Facebook! 

TGIF

It's been a crazy week over here, or at least it seems that way. The first couple of days were strictly for recovery and really weren't as bad as I thought they would have been. I actually got to see video of myself crossing the finish line and all I can say is I really need to work on my form. I think I run slightly similar to Phoebe from friends. I mean not with the hands all over the place, but yeah, it's not pretty.




Wednesday we went to Epcot to check out the Flower and Garden show. We even had a chance to go into The Seas to see the fish.



When we went back into the countries the kids were excited about all the plants that were made to look like Disney characters. Jill about lost her mind when we got to Germany and she saw this:



Now yes, this is awesome but when you are flying solo with one kid that wants to sit and stare at the tower that also sings and has glowing hair (yeah thanks Disney) and one kid that wants to stare at the trains. These two things are feet from each other and you can see the tower from the train, but miss insisted on being in front of the tower. It was a short visit to Germany needless to say.

Yesterday I braved Publix solo with the kids. I never know about grocery shopping with them because the likelihood of getting a double cart is slim. Thankfully there was one left and believe you me it got a full wipe down since I just saw an article about how 72% of carts came back positive for fecal matter. *Vomit* The kids did really well in the store and actually picked out all of our produce. They really love the produce section, I'm pretty lucky. Aaron's only request was that we get watermelon and Jill wanted apples. If she had her way she would have eaten the apple in the store right then and there.

Around the time we got home Jill really started complaining about her ear so Scott took her to the pediatrician to have her checked out and yup, she has another ear infection. The doctor said some kids are just more likely to get them and at their age their ear canals aren't big enough to flush everything out fast enough and that's why it happens. So now we're on antibiotics for another 10 days, I'm just really lucky she is good about taking medicine.

While Scott and Jill were at the pediatrician I got to have some quality time with my Aaron man. We hung out in the backyard and spent most of the time sneezing because of the orange blossoms. He's such a riot though and such a toddler. We were "racing" each other from one side of the yard to the other and he would stop halfway because he was distracted by a flower or an acorn. Too cute!



Hope all is well with you and that you have a fantastic weekend! If you have a chance, please check out Scott's St. Baldrick's page.