We left Orem on Friday the 18th to head down to Las Vegas to spend the next day at the craftons. Our plan was to spend the 19th, Kaylee's birthday, at their place and finish the drive to California on Sunday the 20th, Audrey's birthday, so that grandma could spend time with Audrey. Sounded like great plans to me. Yeah, that's not what happened.
On the 18th Audrey seemed just a little ill. She had a bit of a fever and was coughing a bit. Poor baby. But we had plans and figured she would be okay with a little NyQuil. My thoughts? "Knock the little, sick thing out and all will be well on the drive." All seemed to be well. She slept a large part of the way down....but it was not restful sleep. She was coughing and moaning. And it seemed to get worse and worse and worse. At about Cedar City we had the thought of just finishing the drive that night....mind you it was about 7 o'clock which would have meant another 7 hours to grandmas. Getting us there at about 1 am pacific time. Patrick called the Crafton's up and was telling them our plans all in an effort to not get there kids sick right before Christmas. Brice and Lindsey insisted we stay the night.....which I am very grateful for since I would not have made it.
When we got to the crafton's we pretty much hunkered down in Kaylee's room to keep the kids away from one another. (FYI we did not get them sick) The next morning we left as soon as we could and met Mom and Katherine on the strip and finished the drive to Thousand Oaks together. The drive was exactly like the day before Audrey in and out of sleep only comforted by her blanket, pinks and watching UP on my phone.
At about Victorville....2 hours away from Thousand Oaks. We stopped for a "nature calls" break. At this moment Patrick thought it would be funny to joke about audrey finishing the drive with "Grandma" and "Tia." Audrey thought it would be a wonderful idea and was upset when we tried to put her back into our car. Remember what happened in this earlier post and this post? I decided I didn't want to deal with that (a.k.a. Vomit) so we switched the car seat and Audrey traveled the rest of the drive with them.
But the poor thing kept getting worse and worse and worse. So about 30 minutes after we finished the drive we popped over to the Insta-care, begged them to see Audrey, (seriously the front desk person was trying to turn us away. First it was about our insurance. thankfully it was on a PPP? plan or something that they accept. And then it was that "well, this is family practice and the doctor is not a pediatrician." She went back to confirm that the doctor would not see her. Really Lady your going to turn down service to a very sick little girl? YOU HAVE NO SOUL. okay, that was a little harsh but I was annoyed about it. Thankfully the doctor decided to see her. Thank you wonderful doctor.) and found out that it was croup couch, HERE is some information about the cough, and that her ear looked red.....but that she didn't think it would flare up but gave us some antibiotics just in case. I was sort of freaking out about the idea of croup cough. I had it when I was little and my mom had to rush me off to the emergency room. I was afraid that we would be having a repeat of my childhood. The doctor told us to look for some signs that would indicate that we would have to rush her to the ER, including audrey grabbing her throat, gasping for breath and her lips turning blue. Those are things that you want to hear a doctor say. "There is a high chance this could happen, so watch her and take her to the emergency room ASAP. The shot that needs to be administered can only be done in the emergency room." Since it's a virus there was nothing she could give audrey that would help. Couch medicine wouldn't help. However mom and grandma kept insisting we give her cough medicine when I told them it would not work. And would give her cough medicine behind my back. ah, grandparents.
Wouldn't you know it, the ear infection flared up the next day. So on Sunday night, after an entire day of me watching Audrey like a hawk, we spent about an hour and a half calling different pharmacies in the area trying to find a 24 hour. Mom eventually called the hospital and asked if they knew of one. Turns out the only 24 hour pharmacy was in Woodland Hills 20 miles away. So Katherine and I jumped in the car drove 20 minutes, waited an hour and drove back.
The cough remained for a few more days and so did the infection. She was still really bad that night so in loo of moving Audrey off the couch and into her bed upstairs. We pulled out an air mattress and I slept next to her in the living room.
She woke up every hour or so. It was not a fun night.
Isn't life just grand?
I feel I have wasted enough of your time. I'll be telling you more about Christmas in my next post.
Because we still have to cover.
- Everyone....and I mean everyone, getting sick
- Disneyland
- and Christmas eve and day...which includes Katherine making an appearance in the emergency room.
1 comment:
I am so sorry. Sounds like quite an adventure. I hope the good times were great.
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