Has this ever happened to you?

I know when everybody wakes up in the morning, they usually have a routine. Well, when I shower, I start from the top and go to the bottom. Wash my hair, then my face, then I lather up a wash cloth and finish up the rest. This morning I found myself holding the wash cloth and thinking "did I already wash myself?". I seemed to have just forgot. Like I just been swept in some time rift of about a minute and a half. Huh. Then I kind of remembered lathering up the wash cloth with soap. See, the cloth is soap free now. Ergo, I must have washed. Good, enough for me. I'm done.

Anyone?

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Done with Doctors

As in I'm sick of them. After 5 trips to Averly's doctor in a week and a half and numerous shots, drugs, and the verdict seems to be she didn't need all that shit in the first place. So the pulmonary specialist at OU Children's asked us a ton of questions from diet to sleep habits. He checked vitals, reflexes, and listened to her breathing. He reviewed the results from her xrays. "Well, I don't want to run tests on a healthy baby." What? "She's fine. She seems to be thriving" But what about all this shit we've been giving her and worrying about? "When a child is in daycare, she'll get 8 to 9 upper respiratory infections a year." What? Thats it? "You can give her antibiotics that may or may not work. Could be viral, could be bacterial. She can inhale some of her formula while she's eating cuz she's so young. That can cause fluid in her lungs. I can do a bronchoscopy and one of her airways may be weak and we can yadda yadda yadda but she'll just outgrow it anyway. And we can't diagnose asthma until she's three which she will more than likely have." Seriously? That's it? "Yes, one of you can quit your job and stay home with her or just have a sick kid several times a year." Huh. "I want to see her again in two months with a clear chest xray." Ok. Have a nice day. So we a left a little pissed off. Yes, we're happy she's healthy and all. But all that shit we her go through before was for nothing. I felt like the guy was basically like "why are you here wasting my time". Sorry dude, we didn't make the appointment. We decided we're not taking Averly back to the doctor unless she's had a fever of 103 or more for two days. Seriously, I'm done with doctors.

Update on Averly

Well, we got good news and bad. Not out of the woods. Man, this is exhausting. Had Averly's third doctor appointment this morning. A followup. We noticed she had more trouble breathing the past 24 hours or so. Coughing sounded more productive though. Its so much. They checked he oxygen level. Got up to around 96% which is still low even when you're sick. So they did another xray. She doesn't like that table. I don't blame her. The good news: the bacterial pneumonia isn't as concentrated as it was. It has spread out a little and loosened up in her lungs. The bad news: she's not getting rid of it. They suggest another shot of antibiotic. One shot, meaning two, one in each leg. Poor girl has been stuck about eight times this week. Now she'll know why daddy doesn't like needles either. They prescribe her two more oral antibiotics and an inhaled steroid (flovent) twice a day to easy the swelling in the lungs to see if that will help her clear it out. So, let's see what our baby girl is on now..... rotate ibuprofen and tylenol every four hours to help with pain and keep the fever from returning, albuterol nebulizer every four to six hours to help keep the pneumonia broken up, an oral steroid once a day for five days, two antibiotics once a day for 10 days, and flovent inhaler twice a day. It sucks, you find yourself getting angry but no place to direct it. Lack of sleep doesn't help either. She's lost about a half a pound because when she eats, she starts to cough and won't finish. Averly also has an ear infection on top of that. That has the doctor worried since she's pumped full of antibiotics and steroids and she still gets an infection??? So, Monday we have yet another visit to our doctor to see how things have progressed. They are hopefully going to be able to do some blood work then. Tuesday is when we see the pediatric pulmonologist to do a bronchial test at Children's. That's where we are now. Averly still smiles and plays, but she still isn't comfortable wheezing and coughing everywhere. I hate it.

"No Steamboat for You!" Party

For all the people whose friends got to go but they didn't. We can still party. Just watch.

Bloggin' Straight from the iPhone

So, we'll see how this works. Not able to post pics just yet. They said it will be able to in an upcoming version. Hope it's soon. This is pretty cool. Have fun now.

Mobile Blogging from here.

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