5 on a Friday: The MINNIE IS SO SICK Edition

 1. I JUST WANT MINNIE TO STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL, but that might not happen because she is getting MORE SICK, not less. My anxiety is high to incredibly high, as you might imagine, especially since my baseline is pretty high. So far, she is drinking great and eating OK, and her breathing is all right (but not, like great)— so not going in ASAP or anything. BUT ALSO YOU GUYS! Her pneumonia is NOT RESPONDING to antibiotics yet.

2. Her cough was so awful from 4am Thursday on that I messaged her pediatrician at like 5:30 while I was working out directly under her room and listening to her cough and getting more and more anxious. The amazing nurse practitioner who works with the kids’ doc messaged me back super early and said she’d double book her end of day and squeeze Minnie in. We were supposed to follow up THIS MORNIG, but I didn’t want to wait.

3. Dorothy does not have strep but clearly DOES have some kind of virus of doom and was home from school again Thursday and plans to be home today, too. Her fever ebbed midday yesterday, but she still felt like a puddle of yuck— although she rallied enough to play Minecraft on her iPad with a friend in the late afternoon. 

4. Minnie got ANOTHER chest X-ray, and her left lung looks WORSE, even though she is 7/10 doses into her cefdinir script and 3/5 into the azithromycin. She also SOUNDED bad, which is a first. Since Thanksgiving, she has had a pediatrician, an urgent care MD, and 2 physician assistants listen carefully to her breathing, and today was the first time that the sound was concerning. Sooooo, she got a nebulizer treatment and a machine to take home, a fresh flu and RSV swab just in case, an appointment for this morning to follow up (with Dorothy who might as well get swabbed for all of the things and also has a gross cough), and a super painful injection of rocephin.

5. She cannot shake the FEVERS, you guys. She wakes up fever free and then like clockwork is up to around 100 by lunch. WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHY CAN’T SHE GET BETTER? She coughs like a 1990s pack-a-day smoker and has been since BEFORE THANKSGIVING. 

But, listen, the average Bluey episode is about the length of a nebulizer treatment, so that’s super handy.

Also! I gave everyone a silly mug and candy (except Harry who got Oreos) for the first night of Hanukkah, and it was a big hit. (Our first night dinner plans were scrapped for Culver’s on the way home from the pediatrician’s office, but whatevs).

BONUS: Minnie woke up in the middle of the night and slept with us— I brought her humidifier (AIR FRYER) into our room, and my hair and skin look AMAZING this morning.