Feelin’ Puny
Poor Maria, she’s really been out of it lately… During most of her 2 wks off for winter break she was feeling fine, and then the weekend before school started, she had a fever and slept all weekend. She seemed fine Monday, so I took her to school and she slept through it. Monday night/Tuesday morning (the day we were supposed to fly to San Diego), she threw up for a few hours, so I kept her home from school and cancelled our trip. Slept and coughed all day, slept and coughed all night, had some loose bowels.
This morning her eyes looked puffy, but I figured it was from being horizontal so much. Then when Sue came and I saw Maria in the light, holy moly! Her eyes were very swollen, cheeks red and swollen, a couple scratches from rubbing her eyes so much, and nose packed with dried snot. (nice, huh?). She really looked bad, so I called the doc and took her in to another pediatrician in her doctor’s practice (her doc was booked, of course). He said it’s a stomach flu bug that’s going around, all we need to do is keep her hydrated with sports drinks and yogurt drinks, avoid milk. Try bananas and rice if she’ll eat.
Hmmmm. Sounded good (benign), but when I got home from work, her eyes looked to me like they had dark circles under them, especially her left eye, which is also much redder than the other one. It kinda seems like she might be getting another bout of chalazion. I put ointment in her eyes tonight, we’ll see how they look tomorrow. She slept all day, is drinking pretty well, not eating much,. As long as she’s drinking, I’m not so worried (although she weighed either 29 1/2 lb or 30 1/2 lb today with clothes, just like Andy said, same weight that she’s been for probably at least a year, so not eating for a couple days isn’t the best).
I’m so glad we cancelled our trip, it would have been awful for Maria to travel feeling like this. If she’s not significantly better by Friday, I’m going to call the pediatrician’s office again. Poor little thing!!