Wednesday,
Faith goes to O.T. so she gets out of school at lunch time (as it takes
30-45minutes to drive there one way and it lasts for an hour).
Anyway, we got home Wednesday evening and she fell asleep. I figured
she'd wake up in a couple of hours, which she did....but a couple of
hours later she fell back asleep (which is not at all normal). I
thought maybe she was just worn out/growing/teething....well,
no idea really but she acted like herself when she was awake and didn't
have any fever. It probably was a blessing that she fell asleep
through that whole night because it tornadoed (pretty sure that's a real
word if you live in Oklahoma), and flooded. I mean, it flooded to the
point that Thursday schools around us were cancelled. Ours wasn't and
we live 1/2 a mile from the school house so kids get to go to school.
Apparently from P-K to 12th grade there were 25students in the whole
school. Several teachers called in 'cause they couldn't get out.
When your school is a teacher per grade, that's TONS of teachers for a
school.
One of the teachers said...I really hate to ask you
this, but could you take her back home with you because we just don't
have the resources to help her today. That wasn't a problem. I'd
planned on keeping her home, anyway 'cause all the sleeping made me
think maybe she had a sinus thing or something. Then she started
getting a fever. My best guestimate is it ranged from 102-103 (I kinda
was able to take it once under her arm with her squirming like a crazy
person and it read 102.2). Giving her medicine is almost impossible for
me now. So, I hide it in her drinks but if there's not enough of her
drink in there she still won't take it. She is now strong enough that if
she doesn't want to take medicine I can not make her. Fairly sure,
pound-for-pound she is like the strongest kid I've ever met.
I
kept her home Friday as well, and Saturday morning we she had went
several hours without any fever and I thought she may be "on the mend".
Nope. She got worse. Didn't want to eat much of anything on Friday,
but still drank the milk I gave her. Saturday I couldn't get her to
drink much and she wasn't eating anything at all. i was trying to hold
out until Monday to take her to her PCP because once when Angelus was
18ish months old I took him to the ER after a period of him screaming in
my ear roughly 8-9hours. The ER doctor told me that I shouldn't ever
bring a kid into the ER for an ear infection (I'd no idea he had an ear
infection at that time, I'd only had one my whole life---when I was 12,
and he hadn't ever had one at all at that point).
Sunday
morning around 5:30a.m. she wakes from a 2ish hour nap. Most of her
sleeping seemed to be in 2-3hour increments. At this time her entire
mouth was swollen and she was chewing on her tongue. It freaked me out.
So....lots of sleeping, not eating, not really drinking
anything, fever for several days, and wouldn't take medication to help
reduce the fever....then a whole mouth swollen, and chewing on her
tongue. And (probably) the biggest factor of all, she is unable to tell
me what exactly hurts, what she feels like...what she needs for me to
do for her.
To the ER it was at that point.
It could be an
ear infection, strep, sinus infection of some kind, or maybe even
something more drastic. I had/have no way of knowing. Got her to the
ER and to my surprise everyone was very kind, compassionate, and I
didn't get "reprimanded" for bringing my child in. The doctor checked
her out, no ear infections. Yay! Faith's throat was red, swollen and
irritated. She thought it was strep (but can't say for sure 'cause a
throat culture sure wasn't happening). The doctor asked me how Faith
does with med's. I told her, "bad". Faith does VERY, very bad with
med's. We got a one time injection for her. It was a big shot, that
hurt her. That I'm sure of because as the day went on she couldn't walk
on the leg where she got the shot quite right.
She's walking on it
fine now. Faith did fantastic with the shot, as it only took me and
two nurses to hold her down to give her the injection. It's usually me
and 4 (sometimes more) nurses to give them to her. We had to wait
another 20min. to make sure she had no adverse reaction to the shot.
For the first ten, she clung to me and just screamed and cried....in all
of that I could've swore I heard her whisper a little "thank you" in my
ear. Like she knew it hurt, but I was doing it to help her be well and
not be in pain any longer. Ten minutes after that, she was fast
asleep...and on home we came.
