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Oct. 31st, 2004 03:48 pm
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For those of you who spent time here in the last few days, you will be happy to know that Elizabeth is suffering from a head cold which caused an ear and throat infection, leading to the vomiting and general misery of the past few days. If you can fight off a cold, you're not catching anything from her.

Elizabeth has had a fever off and on for a few days now. Babies this age get fevers for many reasons, including something as innocuous as a new tooth, so I didn't worry about it. She was acting pretty normal, overall.

Last night, she spiked a fever at one o'clock and woke up. The little sticky underarm thermometer read 38.7, and it's usually off the real temperature by about .5 of a degree. I began to get worried.

My little girl, who normally sleeps the night through with maybe twenty minutes in the night when she's up, was up from one a.m. until four. Most of that time, she was screaming and burning up. We dosed her up with Infant Motrin and walked the floor with her, but none of us got nearly enough sleep. When she woke up this morning, her fever read 39.1, and I called the doctor immediately.

My doctor, luckily, has an on-call service on the weekends. (The medical clinic we go to was the one Romanow cited as the best example of a multi-service family medicine setup in the country.) Well, we went in to see the doctor this afternoon, and she diagnosed an ear infection. Hence, strawberry-flavoured Amoxicillin is now taking up residence in our fridge. She loves the stuff. One teaspoon at a time has her asking for more. I just hope it starts to do its job before bedtime.

Anyhow, I'm knackered, Piet's knackered, the baby's currently quite energetic, and we're all looking forward to more sleep tonight. I'm going to spend an hour or so tonight preparing for the (quite likely) necessity of being away tomorrow.

And through all this, mostly while she was being cuddly and listless this morning in front of the T.V., I wrote another thousand words. If only I could get up as much energy for my report card comments. . .

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Date: 2004-10-31 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] r-caton.livejournal.com
Aww. Hope things clear up soon. I remember taking pink penicillin whan I was at primary school...used to make me heave IIRC....
But I hope you all get some rest soon!

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Date: 2004-10-31 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com
We're working on it. Elizabeth should be feeling much better very, very soon - antibiotics tend to take care of the painful parts of the infection within two or three doses. If she wakes up at one again tonight, I'm going to give her another dose then. And of course, lots of Motrin. I'm a firm believer in infant Motrin.

I'm definitely taking tomorrow off, though.

And now for sitting by the door, writing two words in between each trick-or-treater. . .

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Date: 2004-11-01 02:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sassy-fae.livejournal.com
Did you get many trick or treaters? I hit an all-time high here with about 25 :)

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Date: 2004-11-01 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com
We got enough to get rid of two big ninety-piece bags of candy, and as Piet points out, I'm stingy. At least half of them only got one thing from me before I realized how many leftovers we were going to have if I didn't double up. On the plus side, I got a thousand words written while I was sitting by the door, and they're actually not bad. A bit of tweaking will make them good.

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Date: 2004-11-01 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lousy-timing.livejournal.com
Bother- a recovering husband and a sick baby. The only thing worse than that is being ill yourself at the same time. On top of that, you have all that work due for school. You have my sympathies, and I hope Piet and your wee one feel better soon.

When they do, schedule some alone time for you. =)

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Date: 2004-11-01 01:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com
Actually, I'm taking tomorrow off to get some sleep and some of the marking done that I didn't do today. I'll have to go in for half an hour before school to get set up for the supply, but then I can come home and go back to bed.

Thanks. I'm looking forward to reading your writing!

Oh, Piet says Riddocksdawn is open, so you can join anytime. I'm at about 17 000 words, now. :)

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Date: 2004-11-01 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sassy-fae.livejournal.com
Poor Elizabeth. I hope the antibiotics kick in promptly and you all get more rest tomorrow.

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Date: 2004-11-01 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com
Well, we got more rest last night than the night before - but that's not saying much. She's also decided to hate being separated from her parents for an entire night. We're going through the "cry it out" thing all over again.

With any luck it'll be better tonight.

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Date: 2004-11-01 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anidada.livejournal.com
Ugh. Poor little boo. I hope she gets better soon.

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Date: 2004-11-01 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] velvetpage.livejournal.com
Thanks. Twenty-four hours of Amoxicillin should do the trick, at least enough to make a return to "cry it out" seem less like torture of the innocent.

We went through one entire bottle of Infant Motrin in one week. Arggh.

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