Amidy's 1st Time to be Sick

Look at my eyes you can tell I don't feel good!

I usually love bath time!

Will you stop taking my picture? I don't feel good.

Finally I got somewhat a smile! Daddy was squirting me with my ducky!

So this week has been a busy one. Monday Austin has guitar. Tuesday Austin has baseball pitching lessons. Wednesday is church. Thursday Austin has after school band practice. Friday Doc and I were planning on shopping. Saturday Austin takes his ACT and Sunday is the Christmas program at church, Amberleigh's 3rd Birthday Party and Austin's band concert at 2. So, back to Thursday December 10th Amidy and I had to pick brother up from after school band practice at 4 o'clock everything seemed to be going smooth until we got home. I was fixing her dinner so she was in her highchair and Austin was in the kitchen looking for something to snack on before we ate and I heard this awful cough so I looked at Austin and said "are you getting sick?" and he said "that wasn't me!" I thought to myself wow that was an awful cough for somebody so little. So I felt her head and she felt warm so I took her temperature and well it was 101. She had no red cheeks or ears no weak looking eyes. This came on so fast! I looked at the clock and it was of coarse after 5! I tried anyway to call Dr. Khouri (our pediatrician) but it was after hours so I had to page the on call physician which happened to be Dr. Hull. (who I don't really care for.) Dr. Hull called me back and he said Tylenol and yellow triaminic. Which of coarse, I was already giving her Tylenol but yellow triaminic we didn't have. So I called Doc who is in class and I told him after class I need him to pick some yellow triaminic up. Long story short....Yellow Triaminic has been discontinued about a year and a half ago!!! Wait to go Dr. Hull! So I told Doc we would wait until the morning and see Dr. Khouri and we did. They tested her for RSV, flu and pneumonia and all of them came back negative. Good news! So he did a chest x-ray and she had some bronchial congestion and a mild case of the croup! So Amidy was put on a liquid steroid (Orapred) and Amoxil. The liquid steroid Amidy threw up the first time she was given it and the second time she gagged so I called Dr. Khouri back and he swapped her to the dissolving Orapred tablets. Amidy doesn't like them either but at least if the tablet is on her tongue and she is trying to push it out with her tongue she is helping it dissolve and she doesn't even know it! At least Amidy made it almost to 9 months before she got sick. She is doing much better now. Here is the funny thing...Dr. Khouri and his nurses when I told them that Dr. Hull was on call they said "Let me guess Dr. Hull recommended yellow triaminic!" I said "Yes, how did you know?" He tells everyone to use yellow triaminic and tylenol.