For the past 3 days, Garrett has been sick! Sunday night he had been asleep for about two hours when he woke up just screaming! I hate it when he does this cause he's still asleep but he just screams!! I tried feeding him with no luck, I tried bouncing him around with no luck, and tried rocking him back to sleep with no luck. Finally, about an hour later, he drifted back off to sleep....
Monday morning I noticed that his right eye is extremely goopy and kind of reddish. I thought "Great, just what he needs, a case of pink eye!" I took him to his doctor later that afternoon, and sure enough he has pink eye! Poor little guy! No wonder he fussed the night before-his eye was probably hurting him....After his appointment, I went and got him some eye drops (oh ya, that's a fun task trying to get it in his eye!) I have to give him 1 drop 4 times a day.
After John got home from work, I needed VERY badly to get out of the house so I went to Wal-Mart and got some groceries. I was gone for about an hour and I guess Garrett just screamed the whole entire time I was gone! He had just finished a bottle and John was burping him when all of a sudden John hears Garrett rumble and...BLEH!! He had thrown up everywhere! On John, on the couch, on himself....you name it, throw up was on it!
After we had gotten it cleaned up, Garrett starts in on his "fussy-time". Only this time he screamed for about 2 hours before falling asleep...Around 11pm he starts his screaming again and I try everything again to get him back to sleep....NOTHING WORKED!!! He fell asleep around 3am and stayed asleep til about 5am! John gave him a blessing and still nothing! Except his pink eye did go away after about a day. Which I'm grateful for because his doctor said that it would last up to 3-4 days.
Tuesday I had slipped into the 7th circle of hell!! If pink eye wasn't bad enough, he has gotten a bad case of a runny/stuffy nose, teething, sneezing and a cough! And I'm guessing an ear infection too, due to the fact that he keeps tugging at his ears! After John got home from scouts (which I thought would never happen), I went to Broulims and cleared out their baby section! I got teething tablets, oraljel, baby motrin medicine and some vapor rub.
Last night was the same scenerio for bedtime. He fell asleep around 9:30pm. I really thought that he would sleep through the night since we overdosed him with medicine (not really!) Well, I thought wrong! He was up again around 1am! But, he fell back asleep about 20 min later and slept until 5:30am. After John changed him, he fell back asleep until about 8:15am. I'm really crossing my fingers hard that today he will be better!
Needless to say that it's been a long couple of days....and nights!
Monday morning I noticed that his right eye is extremely goopy and kind of reddish. I thought "Great, just what he needs, a case of pink eye!" I took him to his doctor later that afternoon, and sure enough he has pink eye! Poor little guy! No wonder he fussed the night before-his eye was probably hurting him....After his appointment, I went and got him some eye drops (oh ya, that's a fun task trying to get it in his eye!) I have to give him 1 drop 4 times a day.
After John got home from work, I needed VERY badly to get out of the house so I went to Wal-Mart and got some groceries. I was gone for about an hour and I guess Garrett just screamed the whole entire time I was gone! He had just finished a bottle and John was burping him when all of a sudden John hears Garrett rumble and...BLEH!! He had thrown up everywhere! On John, on the couch, on himself....you name it, throw up was on it!
After we had gotten it cleaned up, Garrett starts in on his "fussy-time". Only this time he screamed for about 2 hours before falling asleep...Around 11pm he starts his screaming again and I try everything again to get him back to sleep....NOTHING WORKED!!! He fell asleep around 3am and stayed asleep til about 5am! John gave him a blessing and still nothing! Except his pink eye did go away after about a day. Which I'm grateful for because his doctor said that it would last up to 3-4 days.
Tuesday I had slipped into the 7th circle of hell!! If pink eye wasn't bad enough, he has gotten a bad case of a runny/stuffy nose, teething, sneezing and a cough! And I'm guessing an ear infection too, due to the fact that he keeps tugging at his ears! After John got home from scouts (which I thought would never happen), I went to Broulims and cleared out their baby section! I got teething tablets, oraljel, baby motrin medicine and some vapor rub.
Last night was the same scenerio for bedtime. He fell asleep around 9:30pm. I really thought that he would sleep through the night since we overdosed him with medicine (not really!) Well, I thought wrong! He was up again around 1am! But, he fell back asleep about 20 min later and slept until 5:30am. After John changed him, he fell back asleep until about 8:15am. I'm really crossing my fingers hard that today he will be better!
Needless to say that it's been a long couple of days....and nights!
6 comments:
Oh Taunya I'm so sorry. Sick kids are the worst. You just feel so helpless. If you need a break CALL ME!! I'll watch him or you can leave him with John and have some girl time with me. =) Mark is on night's this week so I'm free any night if you want. Good luck!
Oh my heck Taunya! Hell is a good word for what you're going through. I'm so sorry. That is not fun. Hopefully it passes soon for your sake and Garrett's.
Taunya I am so sorry. That is horrible. Pink eye is the worst and those stupid drops are a pain. I hope that little Garrett gets feeling better. I am so sorry. I wish I was there so I could relieve you and give you a break to get some needed rest. Just reading your blog I want to give you a big hug and let you cry on my shoulder. Sorry. Hope everyone gets better soon.
They are always the worst at night, which makes it bad for everyone. Get some lavender essential oil and put one drop in each ear. I promise the ear infection will go away and it will help calm him. You can do it in the morning and in the evening. You can also put a warm wet cloth over his ear to ease the pain. Get some lavender and keep it, you will use it a ton, I promise.
Tauns, breast milk cures pink eye in a matter of minutes. FYI for any future pink eyes. (Of course you would have to find someone willing to give you some breast milk) I'm serious! I had pink eye in Ecuador and that's what they used to cure it. Hopefully he gets better soon.
There is nothing worse than a sick baby and not really being sure why. Hope he gets feeling better soon.
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