When I called the doctor on Friday, they said that if he started to sound like he was wheezing that we should try to bring him in. When Mitchell woke up this morning, he was most definitely wheezing :( I called right away, but they couldn't squeeze him in until 11:45 (which was a little stressful because I had a baby shower at our house at 2pm!) My sister, Kelli, is in town this weekend (hence the picture above) and has been a lifesaver the last couple of days. She watched Mitchell all morning while Jacob ran errands and helped me get the house and food ready for the shower.
We were only at the doctors for maybe 30 minutes. Based on his quick exam, it was pretty obvious that Mitchell has an ear infection in both ears AND RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus). Ugh!!! He gave us a prescription for amoxicillin. The kind we got is an orange flavored liquid that Mitchell tries his hardest to spit out!
Although every kid is sure to hate his parents at some point in his life - I think we may have reached that point early in Mitchell's life. Between the saline spray up the nose, constant nose sucking and shoving amoxicillin down his mouth - I'm pretty sure he thinks we were put on earth to torture him.
And to top things off - we can't send him to daycare this week (or atleast the first few days)....which was his last week anyway, since Jacob's paternity leave starts next week. Obviously, I wish he wouldn't have gotten sick at all....but if he had to get sick, it would've just been tooooo convenient for him to get sick when Jacob already planned to be home!
We were only at the doctors for maybe 30 minutes. Based on his quick exam, it was pretty obvious that Mitchell has an ear infection in both ears AND RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus). Ugh!!! He gave us a prescription for amoxicillin. The kind we got is an orange flavored liquid that Mitchell tries his hardest to spit out!
Although every kid is sure to hate his parents at some point in his life - I think we may have reached that point early in Mitchell's life. Between the saline spray up the nose, constant nose sucking and shoving amoxicillin down his mouth - I'm pretty sure he thinks we were put on earth to torture him.
And to top things off - we can't send him to daycare this week (or atleast the first few days)....which was his last week anyway, since Jacob's paternity leave starts next week. Obviously, I wish he wouldn't have gotten sick at all....but if he had to get sick, it would've just been tooooo convenient for him to get sick when Jacob already planned to be home!
4 comments:
Oh NO! I am so sorry to hear that he has an ear infection and RSV. Hopefully the amoxicillin is helping and he will feel better soon.
Send him up with Kel. David and I will take care of him for ya!
Grandma
Oh no, Mandi! Poor little guy. I hope he gets better soon!
Yuck! Not fun...but the drugs will help and he'll be back to smiles and coos in no time!
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