When it rains sick, it pours sick I guess...

Oh sigh...what an interesting 36ish hours it's been in the Schmidt house...

Looongggg stories short...ish...

Hadley went in to the doctor Friday b/c I didn't like the way she was coughing but more so b/c her matted eyes and super runny nose wasn't letting up. She'd been sleeping swaddled (as posted earlier) and in her carseat for several days at this point. A looongggg visit later (1.75 hours, to be exact) including a nebulizer treatment revealed that nothing made her better so she likely just had a bad virus. Fine. Same visit with Morgan (I asked her to check her ears - she's always got terrible wax and last time the terrible wax was hiding a TERRIBLE ear infection) revealed clear ears (after a little wax removal, shocker) and fine even though she had slightly matted eyes too in the morning and a bit of a cough.

Saturday - Hadley's eyes magically stopped being gross. She was still super snotty and icky but stable (no new, worse/better symptoms). Morgan was also stable (same symptoms, next day).

Sunday - Hadley stays on the mend with her eyes but her boogers won't quit and she's coughing more. Morgan was coughing the same and eyes were about the same.

Monday - Sent the girls to daycare even though it was questionable if we should. Mary said she'd call if need be (Adam was on call since I needed to be at my schools for meetings and seeing kids I've missed a ton b/c of trainings, a seminar, and a few assemblies) and after a call at lunch, it seemed things were ok - girlies with colds. I picked them up from daycare and Hadley was a snotty mess just as I expected and Morgan was happy but warm. As soon as we got home I checked her temp and sure enough, fever. We decided that Adam would stay home tomorrow pending how the night and morning went since I had to get my other school in on Tuesday along with an exit IEP meeting.

Tuesday - Morgan still had her fever despite having meds. Hadley was still a hot mess so we kept both girls home and since Hadley's cough was getting scary, the doctor was able to get them in at 8:30am before regular patent hours at 9. Diagnoses -
Hadley - Right ear infection and albuterol/nebulizer breathing treatments
Morgan - Right lung looked bad, chest x-ray, and boom. Pneumonia. :(

Both girls were put on ammoxicilin which seemed odd for Morgan's dx, but we went with it, along with Hadley's breathing treatments.

Wednesday - I stayed home with the girls today since Adam had an all-day work thing (he's still gone now and likely won't get home until the wee hours...Hmm). Anyway, Hadley was definitely on the mend today since she had lots of smiles (although was pretty fussy later in the day darn short naps). Morgan was feeling better since she wasn't sleeping as much as on Monday but boy oh boy, that poor kid and her cough. She even threw up when she was trying to take a nap b/c she coughed and gagged so hard. It took almost an hour of coughing before she stopped at bedtime tonight but I'm pretty sure she was so tired she was coughing in her sleep. I'm thisclose to taking her in again tomorrow b/c the only thing that is better is that she doesn't have a fever (although that started to come back mid-afternoon too and I got it early with ibuprofen).

I'm not sure what tomorrow will bring. We'll see what the night brings and how she's doing tomorrow morning. Since she didn't nap today (thank you stupid cough), she's exhausted. I'm worried about sending her back to daycare too early b/c she's going to play play play and not rest enough. I am terrified she's going to end up in the hospital even though we're a long way from that.

I'm exhausted so off to bed I go. It will be at least an hour before Adam gets home and I'm too tired to wait up. Please say a prayer for the girls if you have a second...