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August 19, 2007
Kind of a rough end
to our summer days...
So we spent the last week out to my husband's family camp on the lake and it was a nice time despite some crappy weather here and there. Devon usually celebrates her birthday out there and this year it was spent inside, but turned out nice anyway. She's turning the BIG 15 on Tuesday...and of course at this age the only gift that matters is cold hard cash and that is what she got!
Poor Hannah on the other hand is quite ill and spent the day at the hospital getting rehydrated and medications for pain. Her symptoms started about 10 days ago and just progressively got worse until I finally got her in to see the doctor on Friday, not her regular, but the covering doc, which, I'm not to taken with. Anyhow, on Friday she didn't think too much was wrong with her, a virus, usual diagnosis, "nothing we can do but let it run it's course." Ok, I know that, but this seemed a little different to me. SO, she did a strep culture of her throat and said she would call Sat am if it was positive and if I didn't hear from her then not to worry. Ok, so Sat comes, Hannah is feeling even worse than on Friday, I wait til noon, no call from the doctor so, Ok, nothing is wrong, strep wise anyhow, but I still wasn't convinced. In the meantime I'm trying everything I can think of to make her feel better, salt water gargles, teaspoons of honey and lemon and tylenol, but to no avail. The poor kid couldn't swallow, she couldn't get comfortable and then yesterday all she did was sleep, which I thought was good...
To make a long story short, I decided to call the doctor again this morning as she was even worse than the day before and she said to take her in to the hospital and get some labs done. The ER nurse immediately suspected strep because of the foul odor and her voice being all distorted, she did another culture, positive. Then I asked about Mono because of her sudden sleepiness, sure enough, positive. The doctor seemed a bit surprised by all this and kept saying, "Well, she is worse than when I saw her on Friday." Course, I chalked it up to the nurse knowing more then her and getting a better culture, but anyhoo, they kept her all day to rehydrate her as she was bone dry and had some ketones in her urine. So 9 hours later we are home and she's passed out on the couch, but feeling much better, but a little bummed she missed the county fair and her big sister didn't.
I told her maybe we'll catch another fair around the county before the end of the season, she beamed from ear to ear...
Posted by tracey at August 19, 2007 07:43 PM
Comments
WOW! How can a little one get MONO?! Holy cripes...poor baby..I hope she's feeling better!
Posted by: Randi at August 23, 2007 08:48 AM