Winter Sickness

We have had quite the week around here. It started last Friday with a little coughing (from Macy, of course). She was fine...we went over to visit a good friend from high school and her daughter Macey and had a great time with no issues. Then on Saturday we made the trek out to Madison to visit Sean, Michelle, and Coen and again had a great time. Both kids were sniffling, but it was fine. Sunday we spent at home with a little coughing, but nothing alarming. Then Monday came. At about 11:40 I got a call from daycare saying, "I think your baby is sick." Apparently they noticed that she wasn't feeling well, and she had been sleeping on the floor for an hour. Now considering the child won't nap at home sometimes, this was a little disturbing to me. I went to get her, and she looked AWFUL. She had a 101 fever, and she didn't even want to pick her head up off of my shoulder. We went home, took some Motrin, and she slept all afternoon. That night at bedtime, she kept waking up in these raging fits of cough that were pretty scary to me. I called the pediatrician at 10:45, and he said that there wasn't much I could do for her because of her age and that it was typical of what has been going around. He didn't think she needed to be seen because, again, there wasn't much to do for her. So I got about three hours of sleep that night and Dan's dad stayed home with Macy on Tuesday morning. She seemed to be feeling OK, and then after her nap I noticed goo coming from her ears. Remembering what the ENT had said about tubes, I figured that this meant ear infection. I called the clinic, and they didn't have any appointments left for that night. They scheduled us for Wednesday morning at 9:00. I stayed home, took her in expecting them to prescribe ear drops and be done. Apparently she has a REALLY bad sinus infection, which caused the cough, fever, double ear infection, and pink eye (again). So we left the doctor with a prescription for 10 days worth of an antibiotic, ear drops, and eye drops. Then the doctor proceeded to tell me that since she had just gotten over a sinus infection after Christmas that we need to monitor how she does between now and the end of March because her adenoids could be causing these sinus infections. She could also have a clogged tear duct causing all the instances of pink eye. So I was told that we might have to make another trip to the ENT and to a pediatric ophthalmologist in the near future if things keep coming up. It was quite the ordeal and we left with quite the morning and evening chores to do for the next 10 days.