This morning, we made it all the way to the front steps before Emersyn woke up in my arms. Chris and I only passed her back and forth about a dozen times so far, so it was actually surprising that she woke up that quickly. But Chris noticed that her left eye was super crusty and kind of sealed almost closed. Emersyn was totally unphased by it though and was all smiles, cuddling up to me and laughing at Chris when he kept reaching for her as she gave me big hugs. We agreed that since she wasn't touching her eye at all, showed no discomfort, had not even the slightest bit of discoloration or swelling that Chris would tell daycare so they knew to keep an eye on it - no pun intended - but that we were not concerned it was Pink Eye.
After about a 50 minute commute to work and an hour of being at my desk, I got a phone call that Emersyn's eye kept crusting over and we needed to come get her immediately. Later I found out that her eye never even came close to getting the slightest bit of crust in it again, but I just so enjoy being lied too that I wont' even go down that path right now... So, I made the 40-ish minute commute back towards home to get Emersyn while Chris called and got a doctor's appointment for her. In no time at all, Emersyn and I were at the doctor's getting her eye checked out. The whole time, Emersyn is all kinds of happy and smiley - minus the slightest fuss of being tired since it was nap time, before she feel asleep in the car on the way to the doctor's.
Luckily, we got to see her normal pediatrician, Dr. Hill, even though it was a last minute sick visit... Dr. Hill remembered seeing Emersyn for her 12 month check up, which was right after the Right Time visit to find out that Bird had a severe ear infection in each ear. Plus, Emersyn wasn't quite as nervous with Dr. Hill and all the tools being used to check her out. The doctor was surprised to hear that there was even the possibility of Pink Eye when she saw Emersyn, so you can clearly understand how un-Pink-Eye-looking her eye really was. Anyways, Dr. Hill checked Emersyn out, asked a few questions - runny nose? fever? etc. - and then remembered her ear infection from last time.
Well, come to find out, Emersyn is basically immune to amoxicillin so the medicine only toned down the ear infections before. When she stopped taking the medicine, the infection(s) flared up again and got worse. Not that you would ever guess it from the kid dancing around the exam room and singing into her microphone! The fluid was so bad in Emersyn's ears, that it had started to drain into her nose and throat... last time - or earlier this time, I guess - it had drained into her throat which is what caused the cough that we had actually taken her in for. That wasn't all that surprising to me, since everything's all connected. What was surprising, and disgusting, to me was that her nose had backed up so bad the fluid pushed out of her tear ducts. That's what the crust was this morning that was all but sealing her left eye shut. Yeah...
We got a new anitbiotic, and it's like the Super Antibiotic. Dr. Hill said that we can almost 100% expect the little yeasty diaper rash to come along though, so we have to use the medication diaper creme stuff again. And, another "side effect" is that we should be seeing some really interesting... poop. Sorry. There was no nice way of saying that Emersyn's poop will be surprising colors - mostly a maroon-ish color. So much fun. Naturally, Emersyn is totally fine and all kinds of herself. I'm still not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that my baby has the pain tolerence of a Greek god, but Emersyn is nothing shy of back to normal.
After about a 50 minute commute to work and an hour of being at my desk, I got a phone call that Emersyn's eye kept crusting over and we needed to come get her immediately. Later I found out that her eye never even came close to getting the slightest bit of crust in it again, but I just so enjoy being lied too that I wont' even go down that path right now... So, I made the 40-ish minute commute back towards home to get Emersyn while Chris called and got a doctor's appointment for her. In no time at all, Emersyn and I were at the doctor's getting her eye checked out. The whole time, Emersyn is all kinds of happy and smiley - minus the slightest fuss of being tired since it was nap time, before she feel asleep in the car on the way to the doctor's.
Luckily, we got to see her normal pediatrician, Dr. Hill, even though it was a last minute sick visit... Dr. Hill remembered seeing Emersyn for her 12 month check up, which was right after the Right Time visit to find out that Bird had a severe ear infection in each ear. Plus, Emersyn wasn't quite as nervous with Dr. Hill and all the tools being used to check her out. The doctor was surprised to hear that there was even the possibility of Pink Eye when she saw Emersyn, so you can clearly understand how un-Pink-Eye-looking her eye really was. Anyways, Dr. Hill checked Emersyn out, asked a few questions - runny nose? fever? etc. - and then remembered her ear infection from last time.
Well, come to find out, Emersyn is basically immune to amoxicillin so the medicine only toned down the ear infections before. When she stopped taking the medicine, the infection(s) flared up again and got worse. Not that you would ever guess it from the kid dancing around the exam room and singing into her microphone! The fluid was so bad in Emersyn's ears, that it had started to drain into her nose and throat... last time - or earlier this time, I guess - it had drained into her throat which is what caused the cough that we had actually taken her in for. That wasn't all that surprising to me, since everything's all connected. What was surprising, and disgusting, to me was that her nose had backed up so bad the fluid pushed out of her tear ducts. That's what the crust was this morning that was all but sealing her left eye shut. Yeah...
We got a new anitbiotic, and it's like the Super Antibiotic. Dr. Hill said that we can almost 100% expect the little yeasty diaper rash to come along though, so we have to use the medication diaper creme stuff again. And, another "side effect" is that we should be seeing some really interesting... poop. Sorry. There was no nice way of saying that Emersyn's poop will be surprising colors - mostly a maroon-ish color. So much fun. Naturally, Emersyn is totally fine and all kinds of herself. I'm still not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that my baby has the pain tolerence of a Greek god, but Emersyn is nothing shy of back to normal.
Too cute. Granted, the bottle goes to her mouth first for a minute and then Emersyn will share with the baby. She also gives TONS of kisses to her baby. Mommy just gets a laugh when she askes for kisses, but the baby - and Panda, stuffed dog, real dogs, dinosaur, ducks, Daddy... - gets kisses all the time.
On a side note - this is how Emersyn fell asleep on the ride to my parents' house. Notice that the microphone is still in her lap, where it dropped from her grasp upon falling asleep almost mid-song. Yeah, Emersyn totally rocks out and sings... sometimes with Mommy and/or Daddy, sometimes just on her own to whatever song is stuck in her head! LOL!
