BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

Around 5:15am I woke up from a sound sleep with the distinct feeling that I was not right.  I darted into the bathroom only to have a mother's worst fear realized. I was sick. And not just head cold sick but stomach bug sick. The kind of sick where you want to curl up and die.

I woke Dave up about 15 minutes later and informed him that I was sick. Really sick.  So we sat about figuring out the morning.  The best he could do was come home early and I was willing to take it. The only other option would have been to import my mother, from Connecticut, but we realized that by the time she arrived he'd be home. Little did we know that they were still snowed in from the storm yesterday so that idea would have been a bust from the beginning.

A little while later, Dave headed to work and I proceeded to feel like death warmed over. Or chilled over really. I was in and out of the bathroom, and the girls were pretty much fending for themselves at that point. Upon the final time that I got sick, my poor babes witnessed it.  I had shut the door but there is no lock on it, so they walked in and unfortunately had to see mama in a less than stellar bathroom moment.  Afterward I stuck a Max & Ruby DVD in the player and crashed on the couch.  The good thing about that DVD is that it will just constantly loop so I knew that they would be occupied for more than enough time. I had gated off the areas I did not want them and then passed out.

I woke up about an hour later to hear, Emma jumping on a cushionless loveseat and to see this:

We started our day by baking some brownies to go with the meal we made for our very pregnant friend Sarah and her family.

All week long Grace has had a cough. It was nothing that was overly concerning, just one of those annoying coughs that seems to come with winter.  We would give her some honey when she needed it and then she would happily return to playing or head to bed.

Last night all that changed.  I heard her coughing throughout the night, and around 4:00am she had a huge coughing fit that ended with her calling for me.  From that point on we were both pretty much awake and she was consistently coughing.  She came and snuggled with us in bed and we all tried (albeit rather unsuccessfully) to get back to sleep.

I called the girls pediatrician promptly at 8:00am and easily got a 9:30am appointment. We had breakfast, got dressed and headed to Weston.

It didn't take the doctor but a minute to discover that she had a massive ear infection!  Who knew?  Grace never mentioned that her ear hurt. The only problem that she mentioned was her cough.  I was shocked to say the least. Quickly after her ear infection diagnosis came the diagnosis of pneumonia.

We are now the proud owners of a nebulizer and she has been prescribed amoxicilin for her ear infection.  A fun new Max & Ruby DVD made everything even better!