On the Upswing

I am happy to report that we are doing MUCH better at our house! Skyler took his last dose of antibiotic this afternoon and seems to be mostly back to his normal self. He still has an occasional nasty cough, but has been in much better spirits and is sleeping much better (thank goodness)! Today he actually ate some real food, too; definitely a good thing. He is, once again, crawling around like a mad man, but still isn't trying to walk like he was right before he got sick. I know he can walk but finds it easier to just sit down and crawl so he still does that most of the time. Anyway, I am grateful that despite how rough it was, it was short lived.

Tired of Sickness

Our family has all been through the "yucky's" the last several weeks. Kylene has had a bad cough for almost a month, which finally turned into the congestion and runny nose. Then Spencer, Kyle and I got it about two weeks ago. My cough is still deep and in my chest (can you bruise your uterus?--my stomach muscles and/or uterus hurt SO bad, I think I may have, if it's even possible!).

Spencer, poor boy, his cough and congestion turned into a sinus and ear infection. Ten days ago we put him on an antibiotic called Augmentin, which has Amoxicillin in it. Well, this morning, which should have been his last day on the antibiotic, he woke up with a rash on his face and really red ears that he wouldn't stop rubbing. I didn't think much of it since he has had a mild fever as well and I know that can be normal. But, as the day wore on (I kept him home from church fearing people would not be especially excited to see a rash baby in the row next to them), the rash spread to his entire body and kept getting worse. Finally, when his ears were really swollen and his legs were looking a purple-bluish hue, I thought this had to be more than just an allergic reaction to something, so we took him into Urgent Care. (Why do these things always seem to happen on weekends?) Of course, it is just a bad case of hives and it looks like he is allergic to penicillin. (This is hard for me to believe, but I guess I better come to terms with it.) So, we've got him on lots of Benadryl and hope it won't last the four to five days it can. He really is quite the sight, as you can see from these pictures (even though they don't really do it justice). Thankfully, he's acting mostly normal and is not contagious, although the lady with her two kids who is next to me in the checkout line at the grocery store won't know that!

I just hope this is the last of the "yucky's" in our house for a long time. It is getting old.