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Tomorrow Zoe will be one year old. We had her party over the weekend (I need to take a minute to do a flickr upload.) Speaking of flickr, did you know you can now upload video there? I suspect that means it’ll be blocked by the filter at work soon but until then…

I don’t know how everything happened so fast, I remember how miserable I was that last weekend of pregnancy just wanting to have the time with her—I begged the doctor to take her early but he was kind to the OR staff and made me hold off until Monday. Oh was I sick of laying on my left side from that high blood pressure!

Saturday after her party she was exhausted and we ended up curling up on the bed while I stroked her forehead and tried to calm her down enough so she’d sleep. It reminded me of last year after the boys had left for work and daycare and she and I were snuggled up in bed together. I was weepy on Saturday evening remembering how nice that was and how much I’ve missed it (but it was a good cry.) She’s such a sweet girl. She says AJ’s name when we arrive at daycare to pick her up. Today though, she was waving at me and moving right past him to come get me. I love her so much. warm fuzzies here

I got a call at 3:15 this afternoon that Zoe had a fever of 102, was fussy today and wouldn’t drink her after-nap bottle. Since there was a chance she’d caught AJ’s strep, I called the doctor and got an appointment for 4:45. She tested negative on the quick-test but they’ll do the longer one too and see what they find out. With acetominophen, she still had a fever of 100.3 90 minutes later. Doc says her throat and ears were bright red and he was surprised the strep test came back negative. He decided to do antibiotic for the ears figuring it would cover the strep as well.

We came home, Z had some supper and her first dose of antibiotic and her first dose of fluoride (she should have been on that already—okay, they why didn’t you prescribe it sooner?) AJ went to bed hard so I let her stay up for a little bit to avoid him screaming and bothering her. Poor kid was doing head bobs in her exersaucer so I took her up, changed her and put her to bed. I really hope it’s not strep. Thank heaven Mom’s home from Florida so I don’t have to take another sick day!

Her birthday party is on Saturday so I had to call everyone and warn them. I just hope she’s feeling well enough by then that she’s not miserable!

On Thursday, AJ wasn’t feeling well when he woke up. He told me his tummy hurt. I asked if he thought he could go to school and he told me no—then he ran to the bathroom and got sick. I called in to stay home with him and he slept until about 9:30.

Around noon, he felt feverish. I couldn’t find any acetominophen, we were out (how’d that happen!) so we loaded up in the van and went to get some. When we got home he couldn’t/wouldn’t even unbuckle himself from the carseat. I had to carry him to the house. (Yep, he’s got that good ol’ Y chromosome we women all love so much!) When we got in the house, he took of his coat and shoes and sat on the bottom step and I had to carry him back up to bed. He ate two saltines and two pretzels and sipped some sprite and that’s all he had all day. I woke him up for some fever reducer about 9:30 in hopes that would keep him from spiking temp-wise overnight and making him get sick again. When I asked him if he could take the medicine, he told me he couldn’t because he already chewed them up. (He was mostly still asleep I think!)
Friday morning, he told me he thought he felt better and could go to school, but I figured since he hadn’t eaten really the day before, he’d better stay home. I told him Daddy would make him a plain english muffin when he got hungry and maybe later he could have some noodles and soup. He slept until about 10:30 for John and then it was close to lunch time so he just made soup. In the afternoon, there was a commercial for muffins on TV and AJ asked for one. John said we didn’t have any and AJ had a meltdown and told him that mommy said Daddy would make him one. (John thought he meant a regular muffin like corn, blueberry, etc.) John made him the muffin and put peanut butter on it without thinking. AJ cried and said I told him it should be plain so he wouldn’t puke. John says he told him “you’ve been good today, just go ahead and eat it” because we all know that the stomach bugs pay attention to good behavior! eye roll

I talked to both of them a few times during the day and nothing seemed to be unusual. I’d told John where the fever meds were before I left for work and when I’d last dosed AJ and when he should dose him again. When I got home, AJ was burning up and he had a rash all over his body and was itching like crazy—so much so that some of the rash was scabbed over from scratching. I asked about the rash—oh, yeah, John was going to mention that to me but he forgot—did he call the doctor? No, I didn’t know I needed to call. What about the fever? He didn’t notice he was warm. It was 4:55pm. I called the doctor immediately but of course they were on their way out for the night. I got an appointment for Saturday morning at another office and ran to get some antihistamine to help with the rash/itching and dosed him up with the fever meds too.

Saturday morning we got up and went to the doctor. We didn’t wait long at all after check in. When the nurse came in to check vitals, they decided to do a throat culture and sure enough, AJ had strep throat. Poor kid! I know how miserable I got from strep when I was a kid. We got his antibiotic script, picked it up, took it and came home and back to bed. It was a lazy weekend spent resting and relaxing with the kiddos.

Last night, I was having dizzy spells. While I was IMing with my mom I mentioned it to her and she wondered if it could have been one of my medicines—that was when I realized I hadn’t taken any of my morning pills. I suspect that was the source of the problem and so I took half a dose of one last night and back to normal this morning. I was still a bit off today, but I think I’m doing a little better tonight. My bronchitis is still pretty rough, but hopefully the antibiotics will continue to do their job and I’ll be back to healthy soon.

Well, Zoe woke up this morning with her eyes crusted shut, AJ’s got a cough and cold, I’ve got a sinus infection. I’m on an antibiotic. They gave me a script for ointment for Z’s eyes, but none of the pharmacies have it. One guy told me it was on back order a lot lately, finally CVS found out that’s because they stopped manufacturing it. So, tomorrow morning I have to call the doctor’s office and find out what they’ll call in to replace it. It’s not pink eye—but in another day or two it would be.

She’s also got a yeast infection in the diaper region. I’ve been using miconazole cream on her all weekend. They say she’ll need it for another 5 days to be sure it’s really gone. Between her two infections, I’m ooked out about touching her and do the super scrub on my hands after every change. I just hope we avoid a systemic antibiotic for her—that would only make the yeast infection worse—which is why they didn’t prescribe that now. Hopefully her cold will stay just a cold so we don’t need more antibiotic than drops or ointment for her eyes!

I am still so stuffed up and my sinuses are clogged like they haven’t been in a long time! I broke down and bought the “behind the counter” night time sniffling sneezing coughing aching stuffy head fever so you can rest generic with pseudophedrine in it—had to pull out the driver’s license so I could get it out the door! Since I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow, I at least won’t have to suffer too much longer. I’ll just add sinus infection to my list of complaints.

Zoe’s rash is a bit better but still looks a little sore. If she’s not better by tomorrow, I guess I’ll see if I can get her in to see the doctor as well. She’s got a stuffy nose on top of that and some sort of goop in her eyes. Since they aren’t red/bloodshot, I don’t think it’s pink eye, but who knows!

AJ’s also got “the cough” and has been staying on top of making sure he gets honey to keep it under control. Amazingly, it’s done really well at keeping him from staying up at night with a nasty cough. John had something last week, but he seems to be the only one who’s really healthy at this point.

I have two friends who had family members have seizures this week. D’s husband had one Monday evening and she spent the week at doctor’s appointments. It sounds like he’s got epilepsy. B’s little baby boy (not even a year yet!) had a febrile seizure on Saturday night, needed mouth to mouth and has been admitted to the hospital. I hope that both of them find out that things are controllable but I can’t imagine the stress and worry they’re both under. I hope J and JSL are all right. Hugs and prayers going out to both families this week.