Friday, September 26, 2008

Just one of those days

Yesterday was one of those days that just went completely different that I thought when we woke up. My dad is in town a couple of days and this was his last full day with us. (He left before noon this morning).
Riley had coughed a lot the night before so I thought I'd run her to the doctor. I had a doctor appointment in the morning and right after mine I ran her to hers. Turns out she has pneumonia. Riley just kinda gets sick easier than most people, she gets a little tiny virus and it just takes over her body. So they wanted us to go directly to the hospital to get IV antibiotics...they needed to aggressively attack it. But first, I had to get Cade to pre-school. So I ran home, picked him up, ran him to school, and let dad stay behind and put Brooke down for her nap. I took Riley up to the hospital we got the IV (torture), spent a couple of hours getting the drip and doing some other tests...they left it in so if she had to go back today they wouldn't have to re-poke her. On the way home, I got rammed (from behind) at a red light by a lady who "speak-y no englisse" and had to wait for an interpreter to get there...I mean it was just an awful day. Today at the doctor they said she was doing better and could switch to oral antibiotics, breathing treatments, mucinex and Robitussin...sheesh. They have scheduled an upper GI for her on Monday. Poor thing. She refers to this incident as her "surgery" and her IV (that is all wrapped up so it doesn't come out) as "her cast".


4 comments:

Unknown said...

Poor Riley! Your dad got here safe and sound and was just telling us all about your awful day. I feel bad for you and Riley, she has had a rough way to go with illnesses and having sick kids is tough. Hang in there and keep us posted! Lori

Somebody's Nobody said...

Oh my goodness Jen---that WAS a terrible day. I hope she is feeling better though. Sometimes I think it is worse on the mom than the child. Sad to hold your little girl down until they poke her. Poor little girl. I'm glad Wade was there to help you. Hope you're doing okay.

Pearl said...

Hey Jenny, Sorry to hear of your stinky day! : ( I hope everything gets better. Poor Riley!!!

Anonymous said...

nice couch!