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Seriously

Tomorrow, I’m sure, M will wake up a new girl. Isn’t it great that after 10 days of illness I still have some optimism left?

We still don’t have a name for what she has, besides “a virus”, but we know that she does NOT have: strep, pnuemonia, tb, an ear infection or menegitis. That’s great. But seriously, this SUCKS. We did make a trip to the ER on Friday night (our first for M), where the doc confirmed what our PCP and his PA have been saying all along..”a virus”. The chest xray came back fine, her blood/oxy level was 99%, so that was good. No concerns about the amount she’s sleeping or drinking or not drinking. Her fever is gone, but a rash has appeared, and it keeps changing colors-from red to purple and back again.

She’s been awake an average of only 4-6 hours a day. She’s sleeping peacefully (thank God), but is so sad and pathetic when she’s awake it breaks my heart. Today she starting eating a little more–applesauce, a popsicle, and cheerios. Yesterday she seemed a little more “peppy”, today she was just out of it.

When she finally does wake up a new girl, I will REVEL in it.

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STILL sick

Here I am, once again, posting about the fact that M is STILL SICK. She slept for 17 hours last night, woke up, drank about 16 oz of juice/milk, laid around for awhile, had horrible, up to her shoulder diarreha, and was asleep three hours later.

In consulting with the doc, we’ve stopped her current antibiotic and will be starting a new one tomorrow. I’m to keep pushing fluids any way she will take them. I’m actually using the medicine dropper–she takes motrin and what not willingly in it, so I’m putting pedialyte in it and tricking her into taking a few mLs at a time. THIS SUCKS.

Had a weird conversation with a friend I’ve been keeping posted about the situation today. She was relaying a conversation she had with a mutual friend. Said mutual friend said something to the effect of how it’s hard with children who are adopted because you don’t know the medical history, etc. Which I found odd. M is sick with some sort of infection, yes. But it’s not a mystery disease. It’s very likely some sort of cold/flu type thing that all kids get, adopted or not. She’s 14 months old and weighs 24lbs. Of course it’s going to knock her on her butt. And, BTW, we do have a medical history. I’ve got a pretty good background on Z as well, and guess what? He gets colds too! If she were being raise by J and G there is nothing that they know that we don’t know that could possibly effect her treatment in any way, shape or form.

I guess its more weird that other people even think about M as adopted and that how we parent/her medical care is at all effected because she’s adopted…..only because it’s really not on the fore front of my mind these days.

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New Look!

So I’ve upgraded to Beta Blogger, whatever that is. Why am I geeked?? I now have LABELS!! I can categorize to my heart’s content!! So what am I doing as the babe continues to sleep?? Categorizing my archives. I’m sooo geeked. Geeked being the operative word.

Still working on getting the ticker and few tweeks up and running. But I have labels! labels! labels!
And, this template/sidebar is MUCH easier to use. Call it the dumbing down of America if you will, but I won’t miss cutting and pasting in actual HTML.

Anyway, enjoy the budding blog catalog to your left…I am.