Our Little One

We have a very sick little girl in the house tonight.  First, I should back up to the weekend before Christmas.  Vivian had been coughing and just not acting right.  I had a feeling she had an ear infection and wanted to take her in to the doctor on that Saturday morning.  (I love that our pediatrician has both Saturday and Sunday hours!)  We ultimately decided not to take her in and went about our day.  Bad idea.  That evening, she developed a fever and our only option at that point was the ER where sure enough, they diagnosed an ear infection.  Next time, I'm trusting my intuition.

Even though her cough stuck around, we thought she was doing okay.  But then her coughing and phlegm (nice, huh?) started to ramp up again this week and yesterday when I picked her up from daycare, she was burning up with a fever.  They said she was not herself all day.  We could hear that she was getting rattly and wheezy in the chest too.  I took her in to the doctor this morning and got the dreaded news that she has RSV.  She also has bad ear infections in BOTH ears.  The one in the right ear is so bad that the nurse practioner barely had the scope in Viv's ear before saying, "Wow, that's really bad."  Always makes a mom feel good when she hears that about her baby.  :(  She also told me that we're probably one infection away from being referred to an ENT for possible tubes.  More great news.

So, the poor little thing is now doing Albuterol nebulizer treatments (gee, who does that sound like??) and is on a stronger course of antibiotics.  We have a recheck on Monday for the RSV and a recheck in 2 weeks for the ears.  I can't lie though, she was super sleepy all day and it was so nice just to hold and cuddle her.  I just wish she weren't so sick.