*ignore the picture quality, they were taken with my blackberry!
So I will start with the healthy doctor's appointment this week - Miss Lola. She had her 2 Year Well Check on Wednesday and checked out, well...very well! She weighed in at 26.9 lbs (75 percentile) and was 35 inches long (76 percentile)! Nurse Practitioner Teri said that she couldn't believe Lola was already 2 and was proud of her progression! Our goal for this summer is to have the binky gone and to be potty trained 100%!
No for my sicky baby - Mr. Kyan. I started off this week with a phone call from the nurse at his school saying that she thought he might have pink eye, but since we didn't really see any goop or grossness in the morning before school, maybe it was just irritated, so she sent him back to class. I then got a email that afternoon from Kyan's preschool teacher (I adore her) and she said that she didn't think Kyan's eye was irritated, like they first thought. She asked us to keep an eye on it and if it got worse, he wouldn't be able to go to school tomorrow, but if there was no goop - then go right ahead and send him. So we put in drops every couple of hours Monday night in hopes that they eye would be better by morning.
Tuesday rolls around and Kyan woke up with a few an eye booger, not goop, but since I had sub plans ready to go, I figured they would be watching him close at school, better just stay home. By mid-morning I was kicking myself, I thought I had wasted a day. His eyes were as clear as our AZ skies usually are (what is up with all of this rain lately?) and he was acting just fine. Oh well, guess I would just enjoy time with my kiddos and a day off. I wish. Right after lunch, it seems like he took a turn for the worst, his cough went from that of your average everyday cold kinda cough, to really, really dry. It hurt me to listen to him. So I called the pediatrician's office and they got me in at 4:30 that afternoon, where she diagnosed him with croup. Croup? Don't know too many 5 year old's that get that, but ok. So he started taking his medicine that night.
Wednesday he still was in no shape to go to school, so I stayed home again. His cough seemed ok, in fact, I was hoping that he was going to be able to return to school the next day. He played games, watched movies, just kinda kicked it around the house. The only problem that I had with him was naptime, where I tried to get him to lay down for a nap. He fought it hard, harder than I have seem him fight one in a long time. Must have been the medicine. That is the only thing that I can chalk it up to, that and not feeling well. Anywho - we didn't nap, but we did make it to Lola's doctor's appointment on time and in a good mood (see her post above!). We went home that night and debated whether to send Kyan to school or not the next day. For the most part, we thought that he was ready to go. So we decided we would see how his night was (which he has slept through the sick nights very well so far, so we didn't see why this one would be different) and make the decision in the morning. The only trouble with that was, Chad leaves way earlier than I do with the kids, so how were we going to do this?
Wednesday night/Thursday morning was THE WORST NIGHT EVER! Kyan coughed and was up for probably 3/4 of the night. At 12:30am, Chad turned on his TV to try and distract him, he wasn't sleeping anyway, so no use in trying to make him sleep. I gave him a popsicle, Chad took him outside, NOTHING WAS WORKING!!! He just coughed, and coughed, and coughed...
We looked up croup online to see if there was anything else we could do. There was nothing, just help him through the coughing and wait it out. That was when I wished it was me and not him, nothing is worse than seeing your own child struggle.
Needless to say, Chad ended up staying home with him yesterday, where Kyan continued to cough. I called the pediatrician once again, after 3 days on a steroid, a cough like that should NOT be happening. So back to the pediatrician's office we went. Because of Kyan's cold for over 2 weeks, they determined that he no longer had a cold, but rather a sinus infection. Sinus infections are treated with Augmentin, so that is what they wanted him to now take. But, the doctor was concerned with the chronic cough, so he listened rather long to his lungs. I could tell by his face that something was wrong. Sure enough, Kyan had a crackle in his left lung towards the bottom. Pneumonia, or at least the start of it. Because they treat sinus infections and pneumonia with the same medicine, he said he was going to call it a sinus infection and wasn't going to order an x-ray, as there was no point in putting Kyan through radiation if they didn't have to, he was already going to get the same medicine that he would be getting if in fact he had it. So, we left the doctor's office feeling a little better, with stronger medicine to fight off whatever is in his little body and is making him so sick!
Kyan was able to get a little bit of sleep last night, thanks to the pharmacist and a recommendation of his! He takes his medicines like a champ and is not coughing as much today as he has been the past couple of days, but his poor little body is so sore. Hopefully, after this weekend, he will be good as new and back at school playing with his friends!
