Sunday, March 2, 2008
Where is my light at the end of the tunnel??
I have not posted because Olivia and I have been sooooooooooo sick. It started out a week and a half ago with Olivia having apparently influenza (big surprise), everyone in the nation is getting the flu bug. I took her to the doctor, and they didn't give me any antibiotics or anything, just instructions to alternate Tylenol and Motrin to keep her 103.7 fever down and to sponge bathe her if she reaches 104. Nifty. This was on a Friday. By Saturday I felt sick. Chills, Fever, Sweats, headache, all of it. Of course on Saturday Daryl and I had tickets to go see the Lion King in Milwaukee. He ended up calling his mother and inviting her to go with him :( I was majorly bummed. By Sunday I realized that Olivia and I also had sinus infections. Perfect. Add to the misery. On Monday I called the doctor, they were not going to give us antibiotics for a sinus infection. By Wednesday I was crying. I hurt everywhere. Olivia seemed a bit better. I was told to take Musinex, Tylenol, and use a humidifier. I called the doctor back and insisted to be seen. They told me I had to go to urgent care. That was not happening because I did not have the energy to sit and keep Olivia happy for 3 hours amongst other very sick people only to be prescribed the wrong meds. I said schedule me for Friday, I can wait. I struggled till then with no sleep and now I keep blowing blood out of my nose with every blow. I stopped using the Muthinex. Guess what?? Olivia ended up having an ear infection, on top of everything else, and I developed Bronchitis along with my sinus infection. We got our antibiotics. We are on a very slow road to recovery. Today is only day 3 of being on the antibiotics. I feel better, but I stopped taking all the over-the-counter drugs because of my bleeding nasal passages. Olivia is doing great and will be going to school tomorrow. She missed all last week. To top off all of this, Princess, Olivia's fish died in the process. Luckily our talk with Olivia went well. She wants a red fish now. :) Wish us luck, I still feel like crap!
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Oh Lanae, what a week from hell! I'm sorry you and Olivia have been so sick, but I know how you feel. I had some kind of virus last year that felt like the flu, but when they tested me they said it wasn't. I had a really bad chest cold too and I'm prone to bronchial infections, but they just sent me home and told me to get in bed and drink fluids, blah, blah inspite of my protests that I would probably need antibiotics. Sure enough I ended up back at the doctor with a bronchial infection and I missed a whole week of work. I also had the severe body aches, fever and chills like you did. Have you ever tried plain old saline nasal spray that has no medication in it? That helps a lot when you're sinuses are dried out and congested -- it's very soothing.
I'm also sorry you had to miss Lion King -- bummer! I hope you're feeling well again soon.
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