This past week has been a rough one! I came home last Tuesday night to a blazing hot baby. She had a temperature of 102.3, which may not seem like much to a lot of moms out there but I just wasn't used to that! Virginia was acting a little fussy, but not overly so. I gave her some tylenol and her temp went down a bit and she slept through the night just fine. Wednesday morning her fever had gone up to 103.5. This really worried me and I took her to the doctor. He diagnosed an ear infection in her right ear and prescribed some "pink stuff" (ammoxicillin). I thought she was on the road to recovery Thursday morning, but apparently not because I ended up having to go get her from Linda's house around noon. She was just miserable. Thursday evening she stopped eating her solids and started with the vomitting. Luckily she no longer had a fever but she couldn't seem to keep anything down. Friday her daddy stayed home from work with her. Other than not eating, she seemed to be doing OK but Friday night the vomitting started again and lasted all throughout the night. Not realizing that she had developed a stomach virus in addition to the ear infection, I blamed the vomitting on the fact that I had purchased BJ's brand formula instead of her usual Similac. BJ's was out of Similac and I thought that since she'd been introduced to so many different types of food at this point that she wouldn't mind trying a different formula. But in the middle of the night when your baby is vomitting up everything you give her, and you don't realize she has a stomach bug, you tend to blame whatever is different. I was like, "This stinking cheap formula!". So being the good daddy that he is, Jim ran up to the Harris Teeter at 12:30 to buy a can of Similac so we could verify that BJ's formula was making her sick.
This brings me to Daddy's Revelation. Jim came back and he said that he knows that life has changed when he goes up to Harris Teeter at 12:30 on a Friday night and he is surrounded by people trying to get in their last beer run and he's there buying a can of formula! Yes, things have definitely changed!! :)
Anyway, it wasn't the formula. We pretty much had the same results with the Similac and so after 3 hours of sleep, I took Miss V up to the doctor again on Saturday. She diagnosed Virginia with a stomach virus, in addition to the ear infection, and said we'd pretty much just have to wait this one out. You can imagine what a fun weekend we all had! :) Saturday afternoon Virginia broke out with a spotted rash all over her torso and by Sunday it had spread to her head. She was just miserable with stomach cramps and ear pain - I felt so badly for her! Luckily she went back to sleeping Saturday night and by Sunday morning she seemed to be doing better but I realized that I wouldn't be able to take her to Linda's with this rash all over her. My mom came up to do some shopping and she was gracious enough to offer to stay home with Virginia on Monday. Thank goodness for Grandmas!
Little V is all better now and looking more like she did in the picture above (pre-sickness). She's back at Linda's and I told her she'd have a lot of "unspoiling" to do since she's pretty much been held for a week now! Thank goodness for Miss Linda too!! :)
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