Sick Again

Miss Elizabeth is sick. Again. Thank you daycare germs! She went to school Monday and Tuesday but came home acting like she had a cold. I had to go out of town for work Wednesday, so when she woke up with a fever, her Daddy stayed home with her. She seemed to be getting worse and she was wheezing so he took her to Dr. D on Thursday and we found out she has RSV. It's a respiratory virus that causes the smallest airways in the lungs to narrow. Although older kids and adults can get it, it manifests merely as cold symptoms, while babies under two get the fun airway narrowing. We have to give E a nebulizer treatment every 3 hours, which seems to help. And she's on a combination of tylenol and motrin to keep her fever down. She's not feeling up to eating and green blanket and paci are permanent fixtures this week.

Here's a pretty picture of Mommy and Elizabeth with the nebulizer. At first she absolutely hated it, but now she's such a good patient girl.

That's it, E! A martini will make you feel better!

Hopefully she'll be better by the end of next week so we can enjoy all of our Christmas festivities with our family!