Addison battled with what we thought was a cold beginning around mid to late January. We took her to the see Dr. Ramsey on Friday, January 14th and she noted that Addison had a cold and to give her Tylenol/Advil in alternating doses every three hours and it would run its course. She ran a fever for a couple of days an was fever free by Monday and returned to school on Tuesday, January 18th. Things continued to seem routine in our house except that we continued to pass cold-like symptoms around. On Saturday, January 22nd, we went to my friend, Stephanie's, baby shower in Coppell and then hit the DFW malls before heading home. That evening when we were leaving Ft. Worth, Addison seemed a bit hot and as a matter of fact had a fever by the time we got home that night. We missed church again that Sunday due the fever and she continued to have a fever on Monday coupled with a very, very runny nose and the desire to constantly be held. In addition, she began to pull on her ears. We went back to Dr. Ramsey on Tuesday, January 25th and this time found she did have an ear infection in her right ear as well as Bronchiolitis. This required that she begin taking 2 antibiotics: 1 tsp. of Amoxicillin twice daily as well as Albuterol Sulfate breathing treatments every 3-4 hours.
She loves the Amoxicillin but did not have great affection for the breathing treatments. They require that she wear a mask that looks similar to an oxygen mask and inhale the steroid treatment for 10 minutes. This is a difficult challenge on multiple levels 1) she is only 9 months old and does not stay in any one place for 10 minutes which required we 'restrain' her 2) she has no desire to have a foreign object covering her face. To simplify, there are no pictures/videos of this process because it took everyone to do the treatment/entertainment and no one was free for pictures. We enjoyed the help of Lisa and Grammy in the afternoons when they would sing and read to Addison during her treatment. This made a difficult process a little less stressful. We are glad that is behind us and we have our healthy, happy girl back. I must stay she did laugh and play even while she was sick; she has the sweetest spirit!
We are the proud new owner of a nebulizer compressor complete with a fish mask. I bet you can't guess who picked the mask?!?
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Those breathing treatments are AWFUL! I've had to do them with both of my kids and neither of them liked it. Hope she's feeling better now.
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