Savannah's Weblog

Pink eye symptoms go away really quickly after you start the eye drops. The night we started the drops, she developed a fever. By the fourth day, Tuesday, I took her to the doctor. Breathing was fine, but what I thought was a passing earache Saturday night was a slight ear infection. She's been coughing a while too.

She has been fairly cooped up since Saturday. She had to skip Sunday and Wednesday church services. I feel sorry for her. After the same amount of time with my headaches a few weeks ago, I got really depressed. She does not seem depressed, but she threw a terrible, screaming tantrum yesterday. It ended when she ran to her room and shut her door. So I told her she's lost her door for a week. (Although I have yet to get the other pin out.) She had been warned last time. She cried, "No, don't cut my door off!"

I resolved to take them out to day. We pulled thick hats down over their ears and wrapped them up. It was about 50 degrees out but windy, and coughing/ear infections and wind sounds like a scary combination to me.

She still gets feverish toward evening, but it's low grade. She went to bed nicely tonight and has been for a while. I told her if she feels all right in the morning we'd go for ice cream (and I didn't tell her yet but I have a merchandise credit at Gymboree.) As long as we're outdoors very little and we're not at the mall a long time walking and walking, I think we'll be ok with it.

Her tantrum made me feel like we were enemies. I felt fairly calm through most of the exchange, and although we seemed to move on afterwards being nice to each other, I felt a grudge coming on. It has passed. Today was cheerful even though she woke up at 4:20 coughing and couldn't get back to sleep.

I just realized I have to go to bed right now.

Posted by Georgia at 10:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

After we said our good mornings today, I told Savannah that if she didn't let me give her the eye drops, she probably wouldn't be able to go to church tomorrow. She leaned her head back and held her eyes open beautifully!

The end of a long, sickly day is not a good time to administer eye drops for the first time.

Posted by Georgia at 10:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

She's quite uncomfortable but asleep right now. She'd said her eyes hurt. She has said that before after too much rubbing, so I just told her not to rub. When I had to clean her eyes out a little later, I thought the "allergy" she had was a cold and that it had gone to her eyes.

A few minutes later she said her eyes were itchy. I thought ah-oh. I had pink eye once. It's more gross than anything else. My eyes turned bright blue, which was strange since they're mostly green.

She doesn't mind going to the doctor. She wants the pretzel and sticker. Later, she tried to pay with her "card," a $35 gift card from Disney. Junk mail to us but such a treasure to her. I like to treat her to something after the doctor. Last time we did a milkshake. This time it was Starbucks for marble poundcake after dinner. At Starbucks, the guy played along and ran the card through the register.

She did not take the eye drops very well. It was a struggle. She's not yet at an age where explaining things works. I don't expect that to work for another 4 years. At one point I held up the eye drops and said that getting this medicine was the whole reason we went to the doctor.

I may have gotten some medicine in her eye(s). I'm not sure. At bedtime, she wiped at her eyes enough she actually asked for more eye medicine! We prayed that God would make her better. She had prayed earlier in the day that her nose, which she had wiped pretty hard with her sweater, would feel better. It did. She said that God had done His job.

Posted by Georgia at 8:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)