The Ick That Never Ends.

Unfortunately, as is the case here lately, Brooklyn has been quite sick. It started about three weeks ago, when she got pink eye and a sinus infection. She was on antibiotics for a week, and didn't really get better. She went back to the doctor, and they said the infection had moved to an upper respiratory infection. She got a new prescription.


I thought that would be the end of it, but that night she spiked a high fever and had several seizures associated with that. Then the next day her fever went even higher, to 103.7. Since this was with tylenol and antibiotics, I felt it was best to have her rechecked, so we went back to the pediatrician, who admitted her to the hospital for IV antibiotics. However, through a course of unfortunate events, the physicians at the hospital felt like she probably had a virus, so they declined on giving her the antibiotics and sent her back home.


After she went home though, they called me and said that one of her tests came back positive for a bacterial infection in her intestines, and placed her on an antibiotic.


After another week of coughing, fever, snot... and the like, I took her back to the pediatrician yesterday because she still wasn't any better. (Three Sundays in a row!) Brooklyn demonstrated this for her doctor by coughing up slime multiple times. The pediatrician said that the infection was definitely bacterial... in her sinuses and lungs. So she put her on steroids and antibiotics and is referring her to yet another specialist to see if we can keep her from getting these nasty infections that won't go away.


So now the poor girl is on six different medicines and we have our fingers crossed that she will get better soon! Because come Sunday... I'd really like to skip the weekly visit to the peds office and go to church... with a well baby. Please and thank you.