Health

Today I am grateful for good health. I realized today that we have really taken for granted that we are both generally healthy and we were blessed with a healthy baby.

Bella slept 6 1/2 hours last night and I was very excited this morning when she woke up for the first time since 10:30 last night. She was a little cranky when she woke up but I fed her, she fussed for a while and went back to sleep. At 8:30 I woke up and she was still sleeping (very late for her), but I didn't think anything of it. She ate and then just fussed and fussed. After being awake for 10 mins. she started to drift off to sleep, so i tried to put her in her crib and she would just wake up screaming. I held her until I had to leave for an eye appointment. When I left I thought that she wasn't feeling great (she's had a little runny nose for a couple of days). Frank held her and she just slept for another 3 hours until I got home. When I got home she still didn't want to eat. I decided to take her temperature and it was 100.4 in her armpit. I turned to trusty Google (I should know not to Google health issues), everything said to take the baby under 3 months with that temperature to the dr. So I called and she said to get her to the E.R. immediately. I consider myself a fairly calm mother, so I tried to talk the dr. out of it. I didn't want to go there and just have them think I was over reacting. She insisted I go, so I did.

Anyway, the point of this post, while we were there I was thinking how lucky we were that we didn't have to be in the hospital al the time. It about killed Frank to see her have to have tests done, I can't imagine if we had to deal with that all the time.

Long story longer, they couldn't find anything wrong. They sent us home with tylenol and Motrin and said to come back tomorrow if it's not better. When we left her fever was 102.5. We gave her a shower tonight, which she loved and actually quit her crying. Then she pooped and has now fallen asleep for the first time all day. I think she's feeling better now.

On a side note, I went to get contacts today, but I have white blood cell "pockets" on my cornea. BLECH. I have to take steroid drops for the next 2 maybe 3 weeks. I had pink eye about 2 months ago, and this is left over from that I guess. So no contacts for now.