Spring Break and Sick Baby...

...so not the combo I needed or was looking for! My plans for Spring Break were hijacked by yet another virus getting ahold of L. He went to daycare for THREE DAYS only to get sick - again. Sun morning he started with a fever in the morning and it never completely went away with Tylenol; in fact, it spiked up to 103.4 in the early evening. Then, his cough started getting drier and he started getting hoarser, and before we knew it, we had a barking seal in our room. My poor baby got croup! :( We did the hot steam and Tylenol consistently that night and the next day, I took him to the Dr. Thankfully, it was only upper respiratory and hadn't developed into bronchitis or pneumonia. His ear, though, for which he'd taken a course of antibiotics (which had worked in a previous instance) didn't work this time. His ear had gotten worse! So bad that the pus was actually backing up and out of his eyes. :( :( :( Sigh. I felt so bad for him: ear pain, gunk in the eyes, green boogers flushing continuously, and this cough that made him miserable. It had even made him throw up once the previous night. She prescribed a new antibiotic and ear drops for the ear and the nebulizer and oral steroids for the croup. She also prescribed some eye drops for his eyes.

Well, he's slowly getting better. He looked so pitiful, with red under eye circles, watery eyes, fever, cough, runny nose and just an overall look of illness. But little by little his energy and appetite have come back. The oral steroids didn't seem to agree with him AT ALL, so we're skipping that, especially since he hasn't had any labored breathing and the cough is better. Thankfully, though, it's been spring break and I haven't had to take time off.

Daddy has his good days and his bad days. On his good days, he starts doing more than he probably should and then feels yucky again. But he, too, is getting slowly better I think. We all have Dr appointments between tomorrow and Friday.

So grading has been hard to do. I definitely haven't caught up as much as I'd hoped, but hey, I'm working on it. I doubt I'll get to write my short short story this break, though. Maybe next week. Oh! and L has his first canine - the bottom left one. I noticed yesterday the tip had broken through. So on top of everything else, he's dealing with the pains of teething.