It has been a little crazy....
Fortunately Julia is FINALLY on the road to recovery.
After talking to my pedi early Friday afternoon, I ended up taking Julia down to Children's Hospital for a bunch more tests. They did x-rays, bloodwork, and another urine culture. All that and we still did not have any real answers. The pedi switched the antibiotic that we were giving Julia. Although, Julia's strep throat culture came back negative, my pedi felt VERY strongly that the strep had settled into her body somewhere, especially since I had strep throat at about the same time her fever started.
Poor Julia hated all the tests and would start crying "all done" as soon as anyone in scrubs would walk in the room. It broke my heart to hear it....
The change in antibiotics seems to have done the trick though. Because she was feeling better on Saturday and her fever did not spike very high. By Sunday, you would have never known she was sick at all. She had no fever and was running around playing.
Getting the medicine into her is a trick in itself. I even paid EXTRA for the pharmacy to flavor the meds, but Julia was having none of it. She had always been wonderful about taking medicine up until this point. I would just hand her the little cup and she would drink it up. But now Jerrod has to put her in a big bear hug, pinning her arms to her sides. I then hold her nose shut, tilt her head back and squirt the medicine in the back of her throat. She has to swallow it if she wants to breathe. Although she still manages to spit some out. I think we are lucky if she actually swallows half of the medicine she is supposed to get.
This is also the first time in Julia's life that she has had to have antibiotics.
The whole ordeal wore me out and had me quite worried, but Julia seems no worse for wear.
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