So our week started Sunday morning with Jillian waking up having a hard time breathing. See Saturday night she decided that swallowing some bath water was her best plan... it backfired on her Sunday when she was super lethargic and struggling to breath. I stayed home with her while mom and Brent went to Church.
Monday morning she was doing better. We did a few nebs during the day. Working hard in PT and talking in speech made her start to cough more, but overall she had a much better day then Sunday.
Tuesday we still did a few nebs during the day but her day was ok. She a was a little off in speech but still did fine.
Wednesday I had to work all day because there was parent/teacher conferences. Brent came to the daycare after work to work on a computer. He and Jillian hung out until I was done working and then we went over to Pizza Ranch for dinner. Jillian was a little crabby but she was out of her routine. I looked at her ear during dinner and it looked like she had dried blood in her ear. I figured I would look at it better at home.
The drive from Pizza Ranch to our house (about a half hour) was a VERY long drive home. She varied between, screaming, coughing and choking. We got home and she was still really crabby. I looked at her ear and it looked like a large chunk of ear wax. Brent got a warm wet washcloth and we got the big chunk to come off. Behind the big chunk all you could see was white puss. You could not even see into the ear at all. We still had drops from when she got her ear tubes put in but they were not going to work because 1. you could not even get the drops in her ears because of all of the wax and puss 2. the container of ear drops formed a hard crust on the top of it and you could not get any drops out.
She was in so much pain when I put her to bed that I ended up giving her some Tylenol so she could get some relief from the pain so she could sleep. That is super rare. This is the same child who pops teethe and we dont really notice because she just deals with the pain.
This morning her ears still looked really yucky. I was able to get her an afternoon dr appointment.
We went in. Her temp was normal. Her one ear had so much build up again on the outside that they could not look at it. The other one they looked at and it was full of puss and junk. They cleaned up the outside of the one ear so they could look at it and it was full of puss too. They were not able to see either of the ear drums because the ears were so infected. They said that giving her ear drops was not doing to work because you could not get them in her ear. It was decided that the best choice would be to give her antibiotics in her tube to help her.
So here is to hoping the meds help her and her ears clear up. Ear issues just add to some of the things that she struggles with (balance, speech, ect.) but during this all she has been such a trooper!
Pictures of this week:
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| She gave George a neb too |
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| Taking a neb with George |
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| Falling asleep while taking a neb |
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