Poor Baby

Poor little Autumn is sick.

For the Last three weeks Autumn has been pretty sick. She sleeps all day long...she sleeps all night long. She has had a really bad cough, on and off fevers, an ear infection, diarrhea and a little bit of vomiting. She was put on an antibiotic for 10 days...this did nothing. I took her back to the Doctors where they gave her a stronger antibiotic for 10 days...still no improvment. Logan took her to the Doctor on Friday of last week and they told him she looks great and is fine. She still has all of the sympotms listed above. I took her back the doctor today for the 4th time this month where she had to undergo a lot...

First they did all the normal things: took her weight (17.6 lbs) her Temp (101.5) and checked her ears (still an infection in the left ear) and her breathing (weezy).

After doing these things the doctor decided he wanted her to be checked for the Flu, to do a check for the flu they take a swab from up her nose...she cried a lot. The flu was negative. She then had to have a Pku test run. To do this they pricked her foot and squeezed her bloode into a little tube...she really cried hard on this one. We don't have the results back on this on. He also wanted to have her lungs x-rayed. This was probably the worst part of the appointment as the pictures show...
In this one Logan and I are looking througha window at her...you can't really see her well but it was a sad sight. Here is the close up...It breaks my heart just looking at the picture. She was so sad.
Binki didn't help.
But being in her Daddy's arms made things a bit better. Her x-ray photos showed that she had a little something in her lungs...they aren't sure if it is bronchitis or perhaps even pnemonia. I really hope it isn't either. To finish off our Doctors appointment they sent us to the hospital to do some lab work where they can test her snot to see if she had bronchitis or pnemonia. We will get the results hopefully tomorrow. They put her on one more antibiotic that is pretty strong.

This is the hard part of being a parent. Watching your kids suffer is so so hard. I want to just make things better for her, it is so sad to see her so sick. She is so tired and looks so miserable all the time. She never wants to cuddle and for the last three days she has been really cuddly, always wants me to hold her always wants to be cuddling. That is the only thing that is good about her being sick, she'll actually cuddle with me.

It's Autumn's first Christmas and I really hope she is better in Time for it.