Bleh

I have quite a bit of things to talk about, so I'm going to keep this limited.  Otherwise, it will be all over the place and you'll wonder if I need to be locked away in a padded room.  I'll be posting more by weeks end to include topics such as the Super Bowl, our 8 Month post and why I've been MIA.

But now, I'm going to catch you up on the infectious disease known as my daughter.  After a solid week of breathing treatments and a spreadsheet of medicines, we seem to have everything under control.  Our happy baby was back and she was sleeping and eating like a champ.

Mom came to visit this past weekend and we had a nice time.  Sunday, the baby woke up from a nap and she had gunk all over her eye.  It was basically gunked shut.  Yes, gunked is a word.  Because I said so.  So we got a warm rag and ungunked (yes, also a word) her eye.  It wasn't red or swollen... so I didn't think much about it.

If she had gunk on Monday, I didn't notice.  But yesterday when she woke up from her afternoon nap, her eye was gunked closed again AND it was red and swollen.  She wasn't acting sick, but she didn't eat all her dinner.  After we put her in bed, I googled "pink eye" and with all my years of medical training, I declared that she had pink eye.

We did decide to go to the doctor today to allow the doc to concur with me.  And I figured, since we're here, let's check her ears and make sure they are healed after her double infection.  Well, lo and behold, her ears were just as bad looking as they were almost 2 weeks ago.  And this is after a big time dose of antibiotics.

So we are on MORE antibiotics for her ears.  As for the eye, she thinks it's because of the ears and not pink eye, but we've got drops just in case.  We have a follow-up appointment next Thursday.  If her ears aren't better then, we are being sent to the ENT.

And since we are now at the doctor so much, they know who we are.  We don't even have to give our name.  In fact, they keep trying to get me to leave her with them because she's so cute.  It's not gonna happen, but at this point, I think the doctor's office may have less germs than daycare.