All that hand washing is for naught - another 10 days of amoxicillin has moved into our house.
There has been an alarming trend of Addison being with a Grandma and then getting sick.
Last December we went to pick up Gramma Kathy from the airport for her Christmas visit and poor little lady came down with one of the nastiest rashes I have ever seen. February 2009, we were visiting Gramma Kathy and Addie came down with a cold, a fever and another rash from hell. What an enjoyable flight home.
This past August we spent a few days playing with Papa and Grandma Johnson in Chicago and Addie came home covered in snot and coughing like an emphysema patient. A week later she spent the weekend with Grandma Patty, while we played in New Haven, and came home sounding even worse than her visit with Grandma Johnson, not to mention she had a raised blotchy rash all over. Ooops, turns out she had walking pneumonia.
We dropped her off this Saturday for some quality Grandma Patty time (translate: we had a neighborhood party to attend that had TONS of "grown up juice"). When we picked her up on Sunday morning her nose was practically cemented shut with boogers. She was hacking up a lung, her eyes were glassy and her cheeks were red.
Today our wonderful, adorable doctor (who I wish was my friend and that we went out for wine together) confirmed that, once again, Miss Thang was sick. Ear infection. Yucky throat. Mucusy cold. Ten days of amoxicillin prescribed and a referral to an ENT doctor.
Nope, they don't want to shove tubes in her ears. They would like to rip her tonsils out. Sweet little girl has "kissing tonsils" or almost kissing tonsils. I guess her tonsils are on their way to first base, but just a little shy of making it. Those stinking tonsils cause horrid snoring, occasionally raspy breathing and apparently exacerbate her colds.
While she has inherited my amazing coordination and grace, it seems she has inherited her Dad's lymphatic tissue. Turns out sweet husband of mine had killer tonsils as a child - big enough that they made it hard to understand what he was saying (how hard is it, I ask you, to understand GO!TAR!HEELS!). His were yanked out.
And soon we'll find out if hers will be too.
4 comments:
Oh dear, so sorry she's sick! My oldest just had her tonsils out (they were HUGE) and I wish we had done it sooner (she's 8). She couldn't believe how much easier it is for her to breathe and even swallow. She does claim that it was her worst day ever, though. Poor kids!
Keep breathing Jess! They do this sort of surgery all the time. Poor Miss Addie! Give her a big hug and kiss from me!!
Poor baby! And Miss D.'s doctor said, "she's got the biggest tonsils I've ever seen." Yep, we had 'em yanked!
Oh, poor thing! That is a bad run she's on. It's the same over here, but no tonsil talk yet. At least you can wait until after the holidays to have them removed! Hang in there. It's tough when they are sick.
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