What a fun day it was on Tuesday. I woke up with mastitis (I always get it the first couple of months after I have a baby) and felt like crap. I was debating if I should get on the antibiotics or just tough it out. But I was so achy that even my hair roots hurt. My fever got to 101.5 and I had chills all day. I decided that I needed the drugs...so I called the doctor after lunch and got an order called in. But I wouldn't be able to pick it up until after Jarel got home from work. I wasn't about to drag 5 kids to the pharmacy.
As this was going on, Hailey started coughing last night and this morning it was a nasty cough. Great...sick kids with a brand new baby...not a good combo. Her cough became worse and she was making noises when she would breathe. I became worried and wanted to make sure she was getting enough oxygen. So about 4:00 I called Jarel to see when he would be home and he said not for a long time. I wanted to take Hailey in, but didn't want to take the other kids with me. So I called my Mom, and at this point I had had enough and it all came on and I started to cry...I guess when you cry on the phone to your Mom, she drops everything and comes on over!!! I will be ever grateful to her for giving up her afternoon to come up watch the kids while I took Hailey to the instacare and then to Harmons to get my meds.
At instacare, Hailey was diagnosed with croup. They gave her a steroid to help open up her airway. That helped so much and she wasn't making the "strider" noises anymore while breathing. The doctor said it would last about 3-5 days. It is a viral infection and just to treat the symptoms (fever, sore throat) with Tylenol or Motrin and to put a humidifier in her room at night. It was a very fast visit to the instacare (we were the only ones there). After we ran to Harmons to get my medication (oh, before I went to instacare...I was able to find some meds from the previous mastitis I had with Hailey, that were still good so I took one of those) and I had to get some milk while I was there...no milk in the house doesn't go well with kids that like to drink milk.
We got home and the rest of the night we just didn't do much. I'm so glad my Mom was willing and able to come over at the last minute. Jarel didn't make it home until 8:30 that night...so if I had to wait for him to get home, wouldn't have been pretty. Hailey slept through the night on Tuesday which was very nice. My meds didn't kick in until Wednesday night...as I finally started to feel better. I just keep praying that Braxton won't get it. He has a slight fever 99.8 and a stuffy nose...and I hope it only goes this far with him. We have been using sanitizer but there is only so much you can do with sick toddlers in the house that drool on everything, snot noses galore. You try your best to protect Braxton and hope it is good enough! It was a rough day...but we survived and are feeling so much better! Now round 2 of the cough begins...with Tyler starting a cough last night :(
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