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Brady’s fever finally broke this morning.  She was at 98.4 soon after waking and right before bed.  She seemed to be feeling much better today which was such a relief.  I monitored her temp throughout the day and I only ended up giving her more Tylenol at bedtime because of her teeth and hoping it’d help her sleep better.  She’s also back in her fleece footy pj’s and maybe that’s what caused her to get up early last night (being in too thin pjs)?  She’s still not liking the amoxicillin any more.  I have no idea what to do about this.  Her dose is 6ml (a lot) and half of it ends up down her neck and on her clothes.  I’ve tried reading and singing and honestly, she takes it best when she’s pissed off and crying.  I’m open to suggestions here…

I somehow ended up worrying unnecessarily that meningio toxemia or sepsis or something was going to come into play.  Well even the nurse practitioner’s diagnosis of possible roseola didn’t end up panning out (thankfully).  Brady still has some random freckling but I in no way would call it a rash.  Even though the NP didn’t say I needed to schedule a follow up to look at her ears again after she was done with the antibiotics (she did last time, so I’m assuming this time she forgot after consulting with other mums), I went ahead and scheduled it today.  I just want to be absolutely sure the ear infection is gone and there isn’t some random other illness at play.  Casey and I have been toying with an idea about her ear infection(s).  Is it possible that the dogs could have caused it?  Ear infections are caused by a virus which usually makes a baby present other symptoms.  In Brady’s case, we only knew because of the fever (we were chalking the fussiness up to her teeth – which the molars are making their way through the gums according to the NP).  You might say that dog’s have cleaner mouths than humans.  And you might say that our dog’s can’t even reach their bum to lick.  Well, they can’t reach their own bum, they can reach each others.  And Stoli has some pretty rotten gingivitis (she needs a cleaning) or something brewing and then Dude and his ears and who else knows what he makes friends with that’s on him too?  Ugh!  Let’s just put it this way, when they examined Dude’s tail last year to inspect the bite mark Stoli had left in it, they found ear bacteria…Just makes one wonder…  So anyways, Brady’s doing better and I did a few random errands today.  I still haven’t made it to the grocery store yet but she’s out of juice so maybe tomorrow’ll be the day.

I’m sure most of you have heard about the plane crash in Austin too.  This was not near us.  Well, not near near.  It’s near the Babies R’ Us we go to, but that’s like 15 miles away.  The whole thing is just a mess and hopefully traffic has calmed down by now so Casey can take the route home that goes by the site, thus avoiding the deer going the alternate route (the one he takes to work).

Brady woke up at 5 this morning burning up.  I thought it was just because her door was shut (as it always is) and that she was in fleece pjs (which she has been in 99% of the time this winter) so I started feeding her but she was so hot that she was making me hot.  I got out the thermometer and tested it three times and her temp was running between 102.6 and 102.8 each time.  We were out of Tylenol but gave her some Motrin and she fell back asleep for another couple of hours.  When she woke up at 7 her temp was still 101 but she was acting normal and playing and laughing and talking and eating.  I called the pediatrician’s office at 8:30 and spoke to the nurse who told me I could alternate Motrin and Tylenol and since she was still eating and behaving normally that we should stay at home.  They do want to see her in the office in three days if she still has the fever and no other symptoms to rule out a UTI.  At 9:45 I tried laying her down for a nap to no avail, she started crying right away.  Since I was still tired, her and I went back to bed and took a 3 hour nap.  I woke up before she did and had I not gotten out of bed she probably would have kept sleeping.  I checked her temp again and this time it was 103.8.  We had slept through when her next dose of Motrin was due so we gave her that and then put her in a lukewarm bath to bring her temp down faster.  Casey went to Walgreens before leaving for walk and got Brady some Motrin so she’s had a dose of that too and so far her temp has been staying down.  She’s holding steady at 99ish right now. Hopefully it stays that way!  It should be an interesting night.