After our trip into the doctor's office yesterday, Miles' left eye swelled up and he kept complaining of it hurting, so I called the doctor back and they wanted me to take him into the ER because they feared cellulitis (bacterial infection). We took him into urgent care last night around 5 since his fever had escalated to 106+ and his eye was swelling up.....now we were really nervous. (We have been made more scared by all the things that could possibly be wrong with Miles rather than what has actually been wrong.) They did blood work and found that his white blood cell count was fine, and that it was probably just a virus. The doctor there was pretty convinced that he had the flu and said that in 30% of the cases, kids test negative for the flu even though they really have it. They did give him an antibiotic in his i.v. just in case though. We got our prescription for Tamiflu and went home. Miles' fever got pretty high throughout the night again and at one point he wandered around delirious, wanting all the lights on, but he made it and today although he is completely wiped out, he seems better with a temp down around 100. The medication seems to have really helped even with just a few doses. I guess the doc was right about the flu.
Juggling the two kids has been a huge struggle especially with Chris working yesterday. The baby could get very sick if she gets what Miles had, so we have tried as hard as we could to keep her away, but at this point it is just a waiting game to see if any of us will get it, including Avery. Hopefully Miles is the only unlucky one, but we will just have to deal with whatever comes our way. Chris was a great daddy last night and stayed up with Miles on the couch all night long (so I could have the baby in the bedroom to be able to feed her at night). Despite not getting any sleep, it is a beautiful day here today and the sun and fresh air of having the windows open is good for all of us, but it will be a while before we have the kids together again. It still may be a long, tough weekend and unfortunately we have had to cancel all the plans we had made. At least Miles won't miss Halloween or Trick or Treating.
Juggling the two kids has been a huge struggle especially with Chris working yesterday. The baby could get very sick if she gets what Miles had, so we have tried as hard as we could to keep her away, but at this point it is just a waiting game to see if any of us will get it, including Avery. Hopefully Miles is the only unlucky one, but we will just have to deal with whatever comes our way. Chris was a great daddy last night and stayed up with Miles on the couch all night long (so I could have the baby in the bedroom to be able to feed her at night). Despite not getting any sleep, it is a beautiful day here today and the sun and fresh air of having the windows open is good for all of us, but it will be a while before we have the kids together again. It still may be a long, tough weekend and unfortunately we have had to cancel all the plans we had made. At least Miles won't miss Halloween or Trick or Treating.
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