Two Little Sickies

Our week in review:

Last Sunday--Cora and I both are feeling great!

Monday--Cora starts to have a runny nose, is up for several hours during the night.

Tuesday--Cora adds a cough to her runny nose.

Wednesday--Cora adds a high fever to her runny nose and cough, won't eat, and is way more temperamental than normal. We go to walk-in hours at the doctor and find out that she has tested positive for RSV. Aggh! It's not too bad yet, they just said to watch her closely and give her Tylenol and Motrin to keep her fever down. Cora is up, again, for several hours during the night.

Thursday--Cora acts a little bit more like her normal self with the regular doses of Tylenol and Motrin. Still up at night for several hours! I start to cough and have a runny nose.

Friday--Cora still has a fever and her other symptoms, plus is a little more fussy. She is eating well. We go in for our checkup and find out she has an ear infection-- normal for RSV to cause one. The PA says to keep her full of fluids and we get some antibiotics for her ear. But the RSV doesn't seem to be getting worse. I am congested and coughing!

Saturday--Cora and I had a lazy day, at least Kevin was home to help us out so much! Both feeling about the same. Cora was up from 1-4 am, so we were too.

Sunday--Another lazy day-- I think we have watched all of our saved Curious George and Little Einsteins on our DVR multiple times. Kevin also read a lot of books with Cora, but I'm just not up to it with my cough, congestion, fever, and aches. Cora was only up for a couple of hours, so not too bad. I'm having a hard time sleeping anyway, there really aren't any good decongestant drugs you can take when you are pregnant, and I am so stuffed up!

Monday--(Today)-- Another doctor checkup. We were there for two hours! The RSV has gotten worse, it's causing her to wheeze a bit. Cora heartily protested the breathing treatment in the doctors office, we finally had to have me hold her and pin her arms down while the nurse kept the inhaler mask on her face. Her one ear infection is getting better, but she's developing another ear infection in her other ear, which is a concern because the antibiotics should have prevented that. So perhaps it's an amoxicillan-resistant ear infection. We'll have to watch it the next few days and see if it gets worse and perhaps switch to a stronger antibiotic.

The doctor said we need to continue the breathing treatments at home, so we brave the blizzard and pick up a nebulizer, which we find out we have to buy, not rent, and get the medication through the Walgreens drive-through (so nice not to have to get out in the snow again!) and make it home. Unfortunately, they couldn't fill the whole prescription, so we'll have to go back tomorrow. Good thing we'll be hitting our insurance out-of-pocket maximum this year with the new baby coming! All of this stuff is pretty pricey. We'll be doing breathing treatments three of four times a day for the next 3-4 days (we have to do them when Kevin is home because Cora is too strong for me to make her do it by myself). We have to watch and make sure Cora's breathing and ear doesn't get worse, and then stay home for another week while she's contagious, and maybe a week after that while she won't be contagious, but will be coughing up this nasty mucus from her lungs, which would probably make other parents nervous! I have a call into my doctor to see if there's anything else I can take to get better sooner and be less miserable, and my next appointment is Wednesday morning.

So, this is probably more than what you wanted to know! But we haven't updated the blog for a while, because nothing too exciting is going on, so here's what we've been up to anyway. Hopefully it will all be done and gone with for Cora and I by the end of the week, and hopefully Kevin will continue his good luck and not get sick! Lucky guy, he has quite the immune system!