Well, now that the first post is behind me I figured it's time for post #2! Thanks for reading my last one, which would have been my first one. I hope you enjoyed it! As you can tell I LOVE using ---> !!!!!! those little guys! It makes me happy, like I have a personal cheerleader at the end of everything I say! hehe Anyways, today has been good so far. Woke up this morning to what I thought was a loud crack of thunder, but my husband, Chad, claims to have not heard anything. As I have leaned recently, he doesn't have the best hearing in the world so I can't really rely on him for noises! Either way today has turned out to be a rather rainy/drizzly day. I never used to like the rain, had bad memories that were associated with rain. But I have grown over the years and have come to appreciate and "soak up" the rain. The rain reminds me of a pause button sometimes. Like I said before I am a stay-at-home mom and my days can get super busy with cleaning, cooking, taking care of my sweet girl, blogging, etc. this list could go on forever really. If you are a SAHM too, you understand! So today when I saw the rain falling down so softly and being welcomed by my dying plants, I decided to "pause" and slow down my day. I had a couple cups of reheated day old coffee, not as bad as you would think, made a quick turkey sandwich and sat down on the couch. My daughter ordered me to take my clothes off and promptly threw pajamma's at me! She knows what's up when it rains! We snuggled up on the couch under a fleece blanket and watched an episode of Caillou for a bit before nap time. My poor girl isn't feeling quite well today, she's been battling an ear infection for the past 7 weeks! YIKES! Well she is a trooper with it all, not really complaining, just super cuddly. I definitely won't be complaining about that because she's not a cuddler at all. So I love it! This isn't her first run in with ear infections. when she was 8 months old she got her first one that never went away. She had it from Dec 10- March 5 2010. Don't freak out people, I had her in the pediatricians office every week until they FINALLY referred us to and ENT. She was in and out of that office until she wouldn't respond to a heavy steroid medicine AND she had a 15-20% hearing loss in her ears. They decided it was time for tubes! Praise God for that one. My girl wasn't sick from March 5 2010 to November 18 2011. I'd say we had a great run. Friday, November was her last check-up and was clearing 100% to having clean clear ears with the tubes out. They fall out on their own as her ear tube mature and grow! Man was I a happy momma! Then Sunday came around and she spiked a fever to 102!! My first thought was, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!" Over 1.5 years with no sickness of any kind and 2 days after getting a clean bill of health she gets sick?! Well we watched her for a few days until her fever got as high as I can stand seeing it. It spiked even higher to 104.9. Off the the ER at 11:30pm Monday night. After some meds and a chest x-ray, doctors confirmed psneumonia in her left lung, BUT clear beautifully healthy ear! Tuesday was a check-up at pediatricians office and her ears were still good! I called the ENT and they definitely wanted to check her over too. I thought awesome, no problem because she's good there. Boy was I wrong :( (insert crying here) She was the highest rating of fluid on her left ear. Antibiotics were ordered. Now let's fast forward to today...The last 7 weeks have been horrible on her ears, but other than that just by looking at her you couldn't tell she was sick :) Today we saw the ENT after having been on antibiotics for the last 7 weeks without a break and guess what.......FLUID ON EARS!!! >:( (insert super defeated angry face here). I do love our ENT though, he ordered another 2 weeks of anitibiotics AND this is the best part....he's agreed to put in some NEW tubes!!!! HURRAY!!!! She goes in next Friday January 20 to have T-tubes placed in her ears. Praising God way more on this one!! HE definitely answered my prayers! The T-tubes stay in much much longer. They stay for 3-5 years. I am looking forward to years of a healthy super hyper happy child :)
If you are evening in the Wilmington NC area and need and ENT, I HIGHLY recommend Dr. Botros at Dr. Pollock and Dr. Botros office. He is a phenomenal ENT specialist.
Well, nap time is winding down and my little one will be up and wanting to play...I appreciate you reading my post today! I hope you enjoyed it. As you can tell by today's blog I am detailed in my posts. You never know when someone is going through the same thing and the details help. I love details, it helps me!
My goal is to post at least once a day...since it is still early in my day, who knows what's in store for the rest of the day! Until then, happy reading!
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