Sick...again

When DM was born, he had sepsis and a lung infection. He spent his first 16 hours of life under an O2 hood and the first 7 days hooked up to antibiotics (not long in the scheme of things, or even as long as my friend's preemie, but an eternity for us).

At 4 1/2 months old, he came down with the flu that turned into a minor case of Pneumonia. We had to give him breathing medicine but otherwise he didn't need to be hospitalized. Just monitored at home.

About 10 days ago, on our way home from GenCon, we noticed crusting in his Right eye. On Tuesday (a week ago) James took him to the doc. The doc said he had conjunctivitus, told us it was most likely viral but prescribed some antibiotic eye drops just in case.

We waited until Thursday, when it became clear it wasn't clearing up on its own, to start the drops.

On Monday I noticed his nose was running like a faucet. He was having some issues breathing, like just general conjestion issues, but as far as we could tell, hadn't spiked a fever. James opted to miss his first class today to watch DM rather then sending him to Daycare for the morning (DM was slotted to go for 90 minutes this morning and then 5 hours this afternoon).

It was a good thing. After taking a nap, James noticed the baby was burning up. Two tempture checks later (one under the arm and one rectal) he discovered the baby had a 102 degree fever. Jams picked me up from work at 3 and we went to the doc.

The doc pronounced him sick with sinusitius and an upper respitory infection. She told us to moderate his fever with Motron and give him antibiotics. She thinks that the infection of his eye might have spread or he might just have caught something (his two cousins are sick as well, with a similar thing, but he hasn't directally interacted with them since June).

Now he is back to being heavly feverish and lethargic. So I'm starting to worry. She said to keep an eye on both those things. I just gave him a dose of Motron and we are going to retake his temp in about 30 min. The lethargic, while normally a bad sign, is hard to tell at the moment. It is way passed his bed time so he could be lethargic because he is tired and sleeping, or because of the fever or because of something else or because of all three. >_< He did get enough energy to protest me sucking out his nose but not a whole lot more then that.

I hope it will be okay. I elevated his bed, and even though he only spends a portion of the night there, I hope it will help. We are about to go sit in a steamy bathroom while James showers.

More updates as needed.

Life Updates

The baby continues his quest to moving on his own. He squirms mostly. But boy, that little boy talks up a racket.

He did really amazingly well at GenCon and slept through the Dealer hall. This is the boy that we had to walk around Romero's Macoroni Grill because it was too overstimulating. I guess it was the low hum of the noise rather then the sharp noise in resturants.

The baby also starts Day Care on Tuesday. I'm torn about it. In someways I feel like I can't be a good mother because I can't stay home and make sure I'm watching him. On the other hand, it is a homebased Daycare and I'm working to make sure we have things in our life. Plus Daycare isn't a terrible thing.

In other news, I'm pretty sure my birthday is going to pass with a whimper. I don't know how I feel about that. My birthday is always a terrible day, and this year it is on a Tuesday. My mom is going to be out of town. My sister, myself (almost definataly), and James will be working. That weekend we go to MI on a trip I'm not 100% sure we can afford but it's for a Bat Mitzvah. I have three friends whose birthdays are this weekend. School starts Monday. My birthday gets lost in the shuffle, just like every year.

Last year I made a big deal out of my birthday. I had a party. 7 people came out of 2 dozen or so that I invited. I got a handful of happy birthdays from people on Facebook, but not nearly the number expected for 200 'friends'. I got maybe 10.

I just want to be remember on my birthday you know. Lately I just feel like I'm defined not as myself but as David-Michael's Mom or our friend with the baby. I want a day about me. But I guess I'm not going to get it. Not this year.

Random Updates

I haven't really updated in a while.

Things are progression well with the baby. He now sits, on his own. He won't sit for very long and won't sit if there isn't anything to do but he can do. He is trying to pull up to sitting but hasn't quite got it yet.

He has also started to talk up a storm. Man, he really does take after me.

He has been slightly neglacted over the past few days, not in a terrible way, but our attentions have been elsewhere. See, it's time for GenCon and both James and I have LOTS of things to prep for it. So we've had to do the prep whenever we can.

However, he is getting 4 hours of dad time a day this weekend, and that's JUST with daddy. He is getting at least 4 hours of Mommy time too.

Got to finish up. We'll be back on Sunday.