Lucas woke up crying with a sore throat this morning, so off to the doctor we went only to find out that he had a double ear infection! (I think its his second ear infection he's ever had.) Add that to the pink eye he had last week and the mysterious headaches he's had off and on the past 6 weeks, a "bumpy rash" he's had for a few months that we've received different opinions about ... the boy has been consuming an ENORMOUS amount of medicine lately. Here's the list -
1. Antihistamine to hopefully stop the headaches - dr thinks its sinus related - take for 30 days!
2. Pink eye medicine for 5 days - finished yesterday
3. Amoxicilin for the ears and throat - take for 10 days and then possibly repeat to see if it helps the headaches
4. MOtrin for headaches - 3 tsp every 6 hours - he has gone through an entire bottle of motrin in 3 days (and his head never stops hurting!)
5. Sore throat spray to alleviate the pain in his throat
6. Nasonex nasal spray - for allegies, and possibly to help the headaches? I don't remember anymore what that one is for ...
7. To stop the rash - Aquaphor lotion on his bumps, change the soap to dove soap and put bleach in the bath water (not so sure about that last one...)
8. Neosporin on the cut and bruise below his eye where his sister threw a toy teapot ...
9. daily vitamin - to keep him healthy! ha ha ha ha
And to add to all the fun - he threw up this afternoon - in bed - on his clothes - and the only thing I had in my hand at the time was Marisa's raincoat. FYI - raincoats make good buckets.
It's 9:20pm - what will my night be like? Can't wait to find out...
5 comments:
Poor Lucas!!!! I will be praying for him. Sounds like our household a few weeks ago. All three of my girls were sick and I had all three of them on antibiotics and breathing treatments and then Reece was also on alternating Motrin/Tylenol for fever, Benadryl to sleep and Nasonex Nose Spray (which I have to say works great for the sinuses!!) and Regan was on alternating Motrin/Tylenol and also Benadryl so she could sleep. I had so many kids sick and so many medicines that I could not keep up. I overdosed Regan and Reece both with their antibiotics b/c I could not keep it all straight and I was even writing everything down!!! Yes, and no sleep was not fun! I will pray for you to get rest and will have the energy to take care of everything and for Lucas to have a speedy healing and the headaches are from sinuses only and the doctors can get them under control.
Love,
Kaylyn
PS - hope to see you next week! I will give you a call when we get into CA.
uggg! Caleb woke up this a.m. with the same thing! Praying for you!
Wow! Prayers for the situation. Agree with the bleach aspect - instead use peroxide - it is natural and will not cause many side affects that the chemical bleach can cause.
Tom & Joy
Yikes! Tell him to stay away from Luke...oh...too late. I've got my fingers crossed, I mean, I'm praying really hard Luke doesn't get it before we go this weekend!
See, this is what happens when you let one germ in, pretty soon they have a party going on!
I hope Lucus feels better soon:)
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