Posts Tagged "health"

The house of sick

Posted by Michelle on Jan 26, 2009 in Life | 4 comments

Ah, it was bound to happen. Despite being fully vaccinated and breastfed, The Little Empress has fallen ill with some sort of virus. Unfettered by whatever virus she has caught, TLE has gone about her business, ever the intrepid explorer. The only clue we had to the fact that she was sick was that she was just a little more irritable than usual and her poop was… well, not as it should be. And has been, well, not as it should have been for about four days now, joined by slight sniffles and sneezing. A few sneezes haven’t slowed her down one bit, though. She’s still crawling all over the place, climbing over things and is intent on learning to walk, darnit. A little cold will NOT stop this child! She laughs in the face of fevers and colds. She also would like it to be known that she haaaaaaates that suctioning bulb and would much rather blow snot bubbles all night.

Since her poopie issues have continued, off we went to the doctor who said she had a cold and a bacterial ear infection from the congestion. Great. That went a long way to explaining why she was so sensitive to being laid down to sleep and would wake up screaming. Luckily, wrapping her would lull her to a comfortable sleep… though it has meant that I’ve been spending at least part of the night either rocking her in her wrap… or sleeping upright with TLE in the wrap.

Did I mention I’m sick too? Ugh. I have a pretty I am so exhausted right now. Despite having the sickies, TLE isn’t sleeping any more than she usually does which means that I’m SOL for getting more rest myself. I bought some DayQuil but remembered to call my doctor to see if it was okay to take. It’s not. So here I am, sniffling, congested and pretty miserable, hoping that my coughing doesn’t wake TLE. Ughx2.  Now I know that I am too much of a wimp to take care of TLE and be sick at the same time.