Happy belated New Year!
We celebrated the coming of the new year thankfully asleep. I know it doesn't sound very exciting, but for us 3 Whickers it sure was!
As you may recall Katherine had an ear infection when we went down to Tucson for Christmas. On top of that she was also teething and had a bad diaper rash from the medicine. When we got back we took her in to get checked out and found her ears where still infected even though she'd finished her medicine that day. We were given another drug to try as the first two obviously did not work. Those few days were horrible. She was up and down all night long with a fever ranging from 101 - 103 and then breaking completely through out the night. We took shifts out in the living room with her as she'd wake up every half hour to hour and need to be comforted back to sleep. We had her dressed in a very light footie p.j. We had the fan going as she burn up with fever then it would break and we'd need to turn off the fan and cover her up with a blanket. I usually stayed with her until about 1am and then Nathan would take over (having gone to bed around 7 or 8pm).
After a few days we took her back again as she had fevers up to 103. They said that medicine wasn't having an affect on the infection either, so told us to stop using it and to try this 4th kind! They also decided to have her blood work done and do a urine test to make sure there was nothing else going on. Although everything came back normal, it scared the beejesus out of us as they ordered the tests and then wanted to see her again the next morning. They said the drugs should be working by that night and she should start feeling a lot better.
The next day we thought she was doing better as she wasn't as fussy and her appetite had picked back up even though her sleeping was still a nightmare. We were wrong. Nathan called me at work to say her fever was up to 104! He was getting her into a luke warm bath at the time trying to get her fever down. I left work and on the way home found out where to take her. It was New Years Eve so our doc's office was closed. We took her to the Children's Emergency Room at John C. Lincoln. Her fever had come down to 101.5 and the doc said her ears didn't look infected (no puss) but were red with fluid behind them. She said she thought she had a virus on top of the ear infections causing the fevers but she should be a lot better by Friday and to take her into our doc's if she wasn't or if things got worse. That evening she seemed to be doing much better - maybe that last high fever burned the bug out of her. That night was amazing as she slept in her own bed and us in ours. We were all asleep by 9pm. I woke up at 11:54 and told Nathan 6 minutes till 2009. We were asleep again before it came.
Her fever did not return and she's been sleeping her 11-12 hours again - yea! We're still a bit concerned as she keeps sticking her finger in her ears (only does that when they hurt). We're taking her in again when she's done with her medicine to have her checked. Say a prayer she's better.
2 comments:
Wow, nearly identical experience with Asher and his double ear infection (minus the ER visit)...3 weeks of little sleep, 3 different antibiotics, 103 temps...just like with Katherine, his appetite is back, little to no fever, he's happier and sleeping better, but he still pushes on his one ear. I'm not sure what to make of it. We should talk and compare. :) Glad you are finally getting some rest!
So glad she's doing better and you're all sleeping again! I'll definitely pray that she's better. Love you.
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