After all that consistent blogging a couple weeks ago (4 whole days of it) I know you must be wondering what's been going on around here. Well, I've had sick kids. Again. Boo. We are mostly better now. It was fevers, runny noses, weepy eyes, coughing, and laying around watching movies - nothing out of the ordinary.
Then it hit Sophie. She was miserable and clingy. I pulled out my maitai carrier and carried her around those few days. At night she wasn't being able to sleep. Which meant Kurt and I weren't able to sleep. Fast forward a couple days to the night before Kurt is leaving on a work trip at 5am and will be gone for a week. Of course Sophie was fine most of the day and didn't start crying and tugging on her ear and waking up from 5 minutes of sleeping until 10pm. Instacare was closed. The on-call doctor at our doctor's office wasn't answering. Tylenol and ibuprofen weren't helping. Home remedies weren't helping. So she and I headed to the emergency room. I knew it was an ear ache. I knew they wouldn't be able to do anything for us. But I was desperate.
Hello Numbing Ear Drops. Where have you been all through my children's lives? Fabulous!! Sophie had a full 9 hours of sleep and I had enough to make it through the day.
The next day she was still miserable, but we had the drops and filled a couple prescriptions. Then her ear drum burst. It's not really a good thing, but I'm secretly happy it happened - the pain and pressure was relieved, she started perking up right away and was running around with her posse by the end of the day.
The other kids were sick too, but no one needed to go to the doctor. Kurt came home. Life's good again.
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We're going through the same fever, coughing, runny nose bit here. I hate that when one kid gets sick you know the next is going to be sick in a day or two. For us that means we've got sickos for about a week, doubly hard for you! Glad they're feeling mostly better.
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