Friday, July 6th early evening she was running a high temp, so I gave her some tylenol in hopes it would come down. I gave her another dose around 1am after checking her temp again & it had creeped up instead of down. Then Saturday morning when I checked again... it was even higher & she was burning up! I wasn't sure what was going on so I made the decision to run her down to the ER just to be on the safe side.
She was the absolute perfect ER patient. All the nurses & doctor were impressed with her. She was a big girl the whole time & after a full work over, including a urine test, everything came back good & the doctor said she probably just had a viral infection & just to continue tylenol & motrine every 4 hours until her temp came down.
My poor love bug. I felt completely helpless not being able to fix her immediately.
I know some might say I overreacted by rushing her down to the ER, but hey... better safe then sorry in my opinion. I felt much better after taking her to get her checked out.
What a weekend that was though. It just so happened that I had to work all weekend from home & that proved to be a challenge, but I got as much finished as I could & was satisfied with that.
The worst part came that following Tuesday morning, July 10th. Fred had gotten up earlier to leave the house to take some cattle to the stockyards & not to long after he shut the door behind him... Kayla awoke & was crying, which is not like her at all. She usually takes a little while to completely wake up & typically she's in a pretty good mood. But not this morning, at all.My poor love bug's eyes were completely swollen shut with goop. It was so sad. She just cried & cried... I took her temp & it was high so I knew it was time for a dr visit for sure. I called my dad to come down to the house to hold her for a few minutes so that I could at least make the phone call to the dr office to get her an appointment. Poor thing, she just wanted her mommy & nobody else... not even her papa. Luckily they were able to get her an appointment... except the only spot they had available wasn't until 4:30pm that day!
Kayla & I made the most of it though, we played dr & I held warm wash cloths on her little swollen eyes until I could get them un-gooped & she could see again. They stayed swollen most of the day, but the more time passed the better she got thankfully. By the time 4:30pm rolled around she was up & playing more & in better spirits.
They did some tests at the dr office & well... she had the flu! Can you believe that? What made my blood start to boil was when they said the ER should have caught this when I took her there. If only they would have swabbed her throat & nose & ran a few other tests we would have caught this earlier & could've given her medication to make her better much faster. Unfortunately since she had probably had the flu since Friday, there wasn't any medicine to give her for it & we would just have to ride it out for a few more days. Ugh my poor sweet baby!
Despite having the flu, Kayla was in a good mood. She had a few days of only wanting mommy to hold her, but besides that she was great!
I enjoyed every minute of being at home, holding her the entire day when she was sick. I felt needed & that was truly an excellant feeling. I just wish we could have figured everything out much sooner & helped her get better faster.
I have to say, being a mommy is the best, most rewarding job in the entire world! Totally priceless in my opinion.
