Well, we've been AWOL for a very good reason...Marley's been quite sick. It all started Monday after Kirstin's birthday party at Little Gym (I think that was the 22nd). Marley woke up early and daddy brought her into our room while I was in the shower. When I got out of the shower she was back asleep in our bed but I felt her and she felt warm. We figured it was just because her room was warm so we laid her under our fan without any covers to cool down.
I finished getting ready and about 20 minutes later I picked her up to bring her into her own room to get ready for her day and she was still really hot so I took her temp. It was 101.7. Okay, so I called into work but I had to go over to pick some things up for the day to work on while I was at home so Brett came back for an hour or so. Right before he got home she needed a diaper change and she wasn't feeling any cooler so I took her temp again...102.5...at this point I gave her the Tylenol.
I went to work, grabbed what I needed and headed home. On my way I called the doctor and got an appointment for 10:15. Marley had a cough that had been around since before her birthday so now with the fever I decided a trip was warranted. When I got home around 9, Brett left and Marley woke up because she had a dirty diaper. I checked the temp...103.8...with Tylenol??!!...I packed her up and we headed straight to the doctor right away instead of waiting until her appointment.
They took us back pretty much as soon as we go there and decided to send us for bloodwork and a chest x-ray. They had listened to her lungs and they sounded "ok" but then they heard her cough and they wanted to make sure it wasn't pneumonia. In the meantime, to try and bring her fever down faster they gave us Motrin, well she either spit it out or threw it up but it didn't go down so then came the Tylenol suppository.
That afternoon we got a call from the doc office...no pneumonia (insert heavy sigh of relief here) but her bloodwork came back "very viral." We just had to let it run it's course...
So, thank goodness we have such wonderful family and friends. Kath came to stay with Little Miss on Tuesday and then my mom came up for Wed., Thurs. and Friday. The girl was down for the count all week! And the kicker of it is...she would be okay for the better part of the day and then start running a fever again around 5 PM. I guess it all just caught up with her by the end of the day. That lasted until last night and then today she was fever free all day!! YAY!! Back to daycare tomorrow :) Although, the cough has gotten worse so we are going to call the doc again first thing in the morning and see if we can get her seen.
Here are some pictures of the girl from today. She's feeling better I think and she seems restless. I guess that's to be expected after being cooped up all week. Sorry you can't see much of her face...her hair is getting very long.
Reading her manual...upside down...
She fell over
Finally some good dinner...she hasn't eaten a whole heck of a lot in the last week. Some meals were much better than others but all in all I think she's only had about 1/3 of her normal food intake. And when I brought her in on Monday she was half a pound lighter than the previous Tuesday when we were there for her well baby check.
And as previously mentioned...don't forget to scroll down...way down...to catch up on all the posts like I did tonight...
Not very many animals were out and about and it's early in the zoo season here in the Nation's capital so a lot of the exhibits were closed. She spent a lot of time on Daddy's shoulder today. The first animals we saw were the otters.
This is some sort of crane...I just thought the picture was pretty.
Just Happy
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
.JPG)
