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Monday, October 15, 2007
Well, after a long, stress-filled weekend (not Sven's idea of the Ideal 40th Birthday Celebration) Georgia woke up once again, with a fever. I called the pediatrician this morning and we had an appointment about an hour later. Everyone had been telling me not to worry, it was just a cold, maybe a flu bug, it'd eventually go away...and Me, being Me...couldn't let it be and just wanted to hear what a doctor had to say. Heck, if the emergency doctor had bothered to LOOK at her on Friday, he might have seen the ear infection before it had gotten too bad!
Anyway. FIL took us to the ped's (we left Dean at home with MIL) and the doctor checked G out. She cried and cried (but she'd been whining all night, pathetic crying for "mo-o-o-mmmeeeeeeeee" " da-a-a-a-dddddeeeeeeeeeeee") and only calmed down when he had finished - which was after looking at her ears and throat. This is what happened:
Doctor checks heart and back, says: she still has a low-grade fever
checks left ear and says: well that looks fabulous!
checks right ear and says: NOTHING
checks her throat and says: ear infection in her right ear, swollen tonsils, red aggravated throat...
He then mentioned that there is a lot of disagreement on how to treat an ear infection on only one side...whether or not to prescribe antibiotics or not and that I should do the following: treat her as we have been with ibuprofen or tylenol, nose drops, cough medicine for today. IF she wakes up tomorrow morning and is still running a fever (anything 38 - shoot! I forgot, 38 something and above) then I need to start her on antibiotics.
The last thing he mentioned, was to make her an onion wrap for her ear. He said this could solve the problem without having to start antibiotics. Unfortunately, when we tried to do the wrap this evening, she got so worked up that she vomited her entire dinner (which wasn't much) and covered her warm source (a stuffed bear with cherry pit tummy) in vomit. So after cleaning her (sven) and the bed and sheets (me), I tried sauteeing the onions in butter (Andrea's suggestion) so that we could put them warm on her ear instead of having to use a warm bear or hot water bottle. By the time she had calmed down enough to try and apply it, it had cooled down. So I gave up. Besides which, she was lying in Sven's arms, right ear (the infected ear) down so I couldn't get the onions to it anyway.
Really would have liked to avoid antibiotics. But mostly, I just want my baby to get well again.
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