In the last two weeks I have been to the Doctor 7 times and filled 9 prescriptions for our family! It has been a little crazy for all of us.
It all started with pink eye, Lexi, my little two year old, showed up with that on a Sunday of course. Do kids ever get sick during your pediatricians normal business hours? After that Hunter, my 7 month old baby, got pink eye too, that’s what happens when your have a two year old who likes to “help” with the baby.
Then it was an ear infection for Hunter, and since we were there I had Lexi checked too because she was coughing and had a horrible runny nose. The InstaCare Doc (it was a weekend again) told me that my little girls ears looked perfect, so no worries for her.
Later on that week Lexi still had a horrible cough and was super cranky, so I decided to take her to our pediatrician on Thursday. He checked her out and said that she probably just had a little bug and that she was fine. I felt like a paranoid mom for taking her in again and being told for the second time that she was fine.
That night my hubby and I went out to dinner with his sister and her husband. I ended up sleeping on the bathroom floor that night, because of Food Poisoning! Friday I was still not keeping any food down and by the time my husband got off work I was in pretty bad shape. Luckily I have a great mom and mother-in-law who helped me out with the kids that day. Travis, my hubby, came home from work and took me in to the Doctor. After they pumped me with 3 IV bags I started to feel better.
That night Lexi was coughing, throwing up and had a fever of 103.2. We called the ER and they told us to give her Tylenol and Motrin to get her fever down. We gave he the medicine and her fever slowly dropped and she fell asleep. We considered waking her up and taking her to the ER, but we figured that she needed to get a little sleep. I also was still recovering and needed a little sleep too.
The next morning Lexi was playing and seemed better, but her cough was still there and her fever kept creeping up. By six that night I wanted to take her to the Kids Care InstaCare. Granted she had been seen by a doctor twice already this week and her last visit was two days ago. My husband said that if it would give me peace of mind it was worth taking her in. So, there we are sitting in the waiting room at the Kids Care watching our little Lexi climb all over the chairs, color, and scream “I want to play!”. I don’t think any of the parents in the waiting room, with their sick kids, could figure out why we had brought this girl to the doctor. Finally, we were called back to see the doctor. She looks at Lexi and says that she looks pretty good. Then she listens to her lungs and keeps listening for a long time. The next thing we know she is ordering chest X-rays for Lexi and we are discovering that she has pneumonia. YAY, for Mothers Intuition! We were so glad we took her in! She was started on a bunch of medications and an inhaler.
It has been ten days and our little Lexi is doing great and getting back to her old self again. To all the Mommy’s out there: ALWAYS go with your gut, because a mother really does know best!
