another trip to the doctor...

okay, i'm sure some of my friends who read this might be wondering why I haven't been calling, returning calls or even emailing.... this is why...

last week i took charlotte in for her 4 month check up and brought the girls with me because they STILL have a cough (mind you, they have had a cough since August...yes, August). Our ped. has offered many diagnosis (whats plural for that?) like allergies (so we got new carpet all through the house), asthma, bronchitis, the weather.....on and on.... needless to say, they STILL have the damn cough, but this time they had a fever too. So, back to the ped appointment last week. Dr. C listened to their lungs once again and gave the girls a breathing treatment once again and diagnosed them with PNUEMONIA.... So we filled our medicine cabinet with more breathing treatment meds, a inhalant steroid and an antibiotic.... seems to be helping, but the cough is still here...stay tuned

back to Charlotte...

She received 4 vaccinations on tues and cold symptoms aren't uncommon, but they aren't suppose to hang around longer than 24 hours. Char has had a fever since Tues (100-102), a runny nose and a gnarly chough. being the "experienced" mom I think I am, I've given her Tylenol and just hoped it was another cold and would linger for a few days.... well, Saturday night a new symptom made its appearance, wheezing.... so, being the responsible and experienced mom I think I am, I called the on-call Dr. and she instructed me to take Char into the ER because she thought she might have pnuemonia.... at this point, I felt so helpless and so frustrated that my 3 little angels have been so sick this winter. So, Dave and I take her into the ER and the attending ER Dr, who reminded me of Turtle (from The Northshore) proceeded to tell me he and his wife were never going to have sex again because they didn't want anymore kids and dropped the "SH$@" bomb to Dave (you just don't do that to Dave, in uniform, when you don't know him) ... diagnosed Char with a cold and sent us home....

So here we are to today, Char still had a fever of 102 and has been coughing up her lungs and just wasn't her happy self, I called the ped office.... Thank heaven we are "in" with the Peds. (The girls ped. was Dave's ped through his childhood). They told me to come in right away and I didn't even have to wait in the FULL waiting room. The latest diagnosis for Char is Bronchilitis...worse than bronchitis - 'better' than pnuemonia. She will be on anitbiotics, steriod syrup AND breathing treatments.... Ugh.

So, my days now consists of breathing treatments for ALL 3 girls every 3-4 hours, antibiotics, steriods, blow out diapers, bottles, spit up, crying and dancing princesses.....PLUS a husband! and we all know a husband requires more attention than all above...

I just hope that after my girls are better I NEVER have to see a breathing treatment again...

so, I apologize for not calling, returning calls or emailing...