My house should have a bio-hazard sign out front!
My six-year-old has been out of school all week because of the flu and now, my teenager was diagnosed with pneumonia today.
*sigh*
Come on, spring!!! Hurry up and get here!
What a weekend!
My freshman was asked to the junior/senior prom. Car date? That sure puts butterflies in my stomach!
My six-year-old has been spiking fevers all weekend! She shot up to 104.8! I can handle the headaches, stomachaches, and vomiting she's been having but when a fever shoots that high - scary! I was able to get her fever down from that high spike so it wasn't an ER trip for her. Poor thing. She is still pretty sick today but the fevers are within manageable range at least. I heard that there is a virus going around the school. There always is. *sigh* Now I wait to see if my other three children get the virus.
The dog pictures SD wants for her tattoo? She's still asking her dad. DH asked me again over the weekend. Seriously? With all the stuff going on at home that I am handling by myself because of dh's work schedule, what my disrespectful SD wants to tattoo on her body is the LAST thing on my list to do!
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We are being referred to a pediatric gastroenterologist and an immune specialist for my ten-year-old daughter. She gets sick every few weeks - fevers, chills, vomiting, dizziness that lasts almost a week and then she has body aches all the time (in different places, not the same spot). It's been going on since Fall. She got dizzy yesterday and fell, hitting her head on the bathroom cabinet. It can't be viral going on this long! Plus, she's not passing it to my other three kids so it doesn't seem to be anything contagious.
I'd prefer it be gastro-related (that does run in my side of the family with my sisters, dad, and uncle) rather than the "C" word. I'm really worried about that. These consistent illnesses just aren't normal.
I said before I'd tell more about my illness later. Well, it's later.
I was hospitalized due to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (due to bacterial vaginosis...NOT an STD which the doctors would not believe until the cultures came back proving neither myself nor my husband cheated on each other and gave each other a disease!) after an ER visit had me admitted for fear of abcess and the need for surgery. I was really sick with high fever and extreme pain. They gave me morphine in the ER for pain, then dilaudid (I think that's how it's spelled) once admitted, then Percocet as the pain went down. Apparently, the flu I thought I had with fever for four days a few weeks ago was the start of the infection raging through my reproductive organs until they were screaming at me to get to the hospital.
The drugs at the hospital made me so tired. I didn't need any type of sleep aid to get me to sleep. Unfortunately, the antibiotics (Gentamicin and Clindamycin) they had me on had such bad side effects (dizziness, nausea, ear pain and hallucinations) that I was happy to get off them after 2-1/2 days when I got sent home. I think it was the Gentamicin that did all that to me. The faces flying at me in my head were bad enough (and the evil grins some of the faces gave me were downright scary) but when the Virgin Mary statue outside my hospital window turned and looked at me several times, I rang for the nurse to get me off the medications!
I may be infertile now. I'm not sure until I see my gynecologist for further testing to see what, if any, scarring was done to my girl bits. Since we have our four kids and my husband's two children, we weren't planning on having anymore children anyway so that's not a real heartbreaker for me. I don't like the fact that my choices may have been taken away but it's not like we ever planned to have another child anyway.
I'm still on antibiotics and the pain comes and goes. I'm still healing. I think it's going to be awhile before I'm back to 100% me.
Last week, I was hospitalized for a bad infection that just knocked me on my backside. After several days of IV antibiotics (which caused nausea, equilibrium problems via my ears, and hallucinations), my white blood cell count was low enough that they could send me home with 14 days of two different antibiotics - that cause nausea and pressure in the ears. Oh how fun!
After spending another few minutes worshipping the porcelain gods with my face in their throne this morning, I am TIRED of this! This is my first post in over a week and it's making me nauseous to do it. Blah!
I have four kids to take care of and a husband on 3rd shift so it's all me this week (he took all his vacation left plus unpaid days last week because of my illness, which we couldn't afford). Being sick this long is bad news. I already missed a choir concert and two band concerts because I was tied to the IV in a hospital bed hallucinating evil horror grins, faces flying at me, and the Virgin Mary statue turning around in the garden outside my hospital window because of the antibiotics. They were knocking out the infection but causing a host of other problems which are still ongoing.
I don't want to miss anymore of my children's end of the year school activities. It's making me sad. It's making me feel frustrated. It's making me downright pissy. Not a good combo.
It's asthma season for us here in our household. On Monday, right on schedule, my daughter started her barking asthma cough. It happens every October as the seasons change (it happens every spring too). There's never a fever or anything - just that barking cough that lasts 3-4 weeks.
Since she didn't have a fever, she went to school on Monday. The barking cough made her teachers nervous (H1N1, swine flu panic) so even though she didn't have a fever, and this has happened every year for the last several years, and the nurse knows this and remembered it herself, she was sent home. I was told by the nurse (whispered to so nobody else at the school heard) that she's fighting an uphill battle, to give her a little bit of time at home to make sure a fever doesn't develop and then to bring her back to school and she'll back me up. The fact that she had NO FEVER didn't mean anything in the panic.
So 48 hours later, I took her to her pediatrician to get a note clearing her for school. Like every year at this time, and just like I thought, it was her asthma. I didn't need to visit the doc in the lab coat for me to know that but I wanted 100% assurance when I took her back into school so they couldn't try to send her home again. She'd missed enough pre-algebra! I got my note and took her back to school. They had to allow her back in and the teachers will just have to deal with their panicky nerves over her asthma cough.
When do the germs go away? I have another child home sick today. Last week, I had one child miss two days of school. This week, my son is now sick and my middle daughter woke up with half of her voice gone so I would imagine by tomorrow, she'll be home too.
Spring is fighting to get here and it is supposed to be in the 50's here this week. I hope this means the normal winter colds and flu will finally go into hiding until next flu and cold season.
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