Wordless Wednesday

10 for Tuesday

1.  Sydney is doing better!!!  Her smiles are back, she's playing with her toys, and laughing with her Bubba.  I love love LOVE it!

2.  Sydney has her FIRST dentist appointment tomorrow!  They said they wouldn't do a cleaning, but would check her teeth, and just kind of get her introduced to being at the dentist.  Hope she does well!

3.  It's AUGUST already!!!  Can you believe it? This year is flying by.  So weird.  Seems like we just celebrated Easter.  How weird!

4.  We have SO much to do the first part of August, I feel like my head is spinning.  We have doctor appointments, a zoo trip for Austin's birthday, his birthday on the 9th, and a photo shoot on the 11th that I CANNOT wait for... so excited!! 

5.  I leave in 9 days to head to Washington with the kids.  It isn't a trip home for play though this time- I'm going home to get the downstairs ready for construction, getting things moved out and around, the upstairs set up into my dad's office, and cleaning stuff up.  We're having a contractor go in and finish the downstairs so the kids and I can have our own little apartment down there while Bry is gone.

6.  Speaking of Bry being gone, we only have 2 1/2 months left until he leaves.  It's so close, and it's really starting to weigh down on us.  We've got to make the best of the time we have left though!!  We'll be hanging onto memories until he returns home!

7.  I'll tell ya, I've started a personal blog, started reading blogs, mostly military wives, and I'm really loving it.  Bryant doesn't understand reading other peoples blogs, people that I don't really even know-- but it's comforting reading that other people really are just like me.... I don't know, I just like it.  So there.

8.  I watched the movie Food Inc. finally.  I'll tell ya, I'm disgusted.  Not that the movie was completely disgusting, parts were, but I'm horrified at how the animals are treated, how they're "grown," the conditions that they are raised in, fed, etc.  It's horrifying.  I urge you to watch it if you have not done so yet.  I think it may change your mind on the meats, chemicals, etc that we put into our body.  I might just be your next "Granola" mom/wife/friend, haha!

9.  We have Netflix.  And with Bryant's X-Box 360, we can watch "instant" on it from Netflix.  Whenever Austin wants to watch something, it's always Netflix.  His reasoning for it is, "Mom, I'm sooooooo exxcessssssed (obsessed) with Netflix!!!" 

10.  All I'm going to say, is that Albertsons is EXPENSIVE.  I usually shop at the Commissary, but had to go to Albertsons to get diapers for Sydney.  So I picked up a few odds and ends that we normally buy.... and wow.  I felt like I was back in East Wenatchee buying groceries.  EXPENSIVE.  Ouch.  I really do think that I heard my wallet groan. 

xoxo
k.

Scary day.

Sydney woke up with a 103.4 fever.  This isn't all too new for her, she runs high fevers a lot.  But I just figured after being on antibiotics for almost a month, plus having her tubes in, that we would not see this number again.  Boy was I wrong.  By afternoon, around 4:30 actually, her temp was up to 105.2.  And this is with Tylenol and Motrin in her system all day.  I jumped up so fast it probably scared her and rushed upstairs to wake Bry.  He needed to watch Austin so I could get her to the doctor. 

They gave her her next dose of tylenol, drew blood, cathed her.  Her urine and blood came back clean.  Nothing elevated to an alarming level what-so-ever.  He did look in her ears, and said that her left tube was in place, but her eardrum was red.  Could it be infected?  Or could it just be from having her tubes done and still trying to heal?  Her right ear had blood in it, I assume from tube placement.  But he could not see her tube.  I will be calling the ENT in the morning to try to get her appointment that's on the 10th to earlier in the month.  I think that with telling them what the ER doc saw they won't have a problem rushing her appointment.

We got home around 7pm from the ER.  We tried to get her to eat some, which she wouldn't.  All day.  She then layed on me while I ate since she screamed in her highchair.  She ended up falling asleep around 8pm on me, so I took her up to bed.  She did sleep all night, which I am very thankful for since I am sick as well.  We both needed our sleep. 

She is napping now- which is an improvement from yesterday.  She hate some apple jacks this morning, and a couple bites of banana.  She also drank about 6oz of water- so I'll take what I can get. 

I take her back in today so we will see what they have to say.  I will be getting in contact with her regular pediatrician tomorrow to try and get an appointment with them asap.  I almost want to ask them if I can get a referral off base for a second opinion.  I just can't shake the nagging feeling inside me that they are missing something huge.  I mean- she has been having high fevers basically since January.  It is now August 1st with no improvement.  She's had so many antibiotics in her little life than I even know what to do with- along with numerous testing and tubes placed.  All to no avail.  No child should run a 105.2 fever for no reason.  Something is there.  Something they aren't finding.  And I want it found. I want answers.  This is making my baby girl miserable, and that's NOT okay.

Anyhow, that was my day yesterday.  While I hate hate hate her being so sick, I do have to admit that I love the cuddles.  She layed on me all day yesterday, and wouldn't let me put her down.  Even when I shifted positions, she would cry.  She was just miserable. 

Anyhow, I'll keep ya'll updated.

xoxo

k.