Ellie has not been keeping her food down this week - mostly because her cough makes her vomit. She has felt warm all week but no fever. She has been very irritable. Her vital signs including temperature, heart rate and rate of breathing were all normal. Still though, with the thought of it being something more serious, we had to go through our normal protocol of calling 15 people including Atlanta, pediatrician, another nurse, the pharmacist for a new inhaler to break things up in her lungs. But then...she sounded better by noon.
She does not have pneumonia - she has what appears to be allergies or a small cold with an inability to keep food down. This morning we prepared her medicines including some Tylenol for comfort and are attempting to feed her an ounce an hour for a few hours. She's already thrown up once today before 9:00 a.m. and in her vomit were all the pretty colors of her medicines. You only have about 5 seconds to try to empty her stomach into a syrienge before it comes up out of her mouth.
The biggest indicator that she's got something like a cold or allergies is her sister.
Julia was so cranky yesterday it was one of those days you HOPE something is wrong! So this morning she woke up with a really warm face and said she felt bad. She then took her job of keeping an eye on Ellie very seriously. So it's a low key day around here for us girls!
Here was Ellie's cocktail this morning. First a bottle of fresh milk to slowly go in her tummy. Then from left to right: a dieruetic that makes her lips and tongue so very dry, Tylenol, a pulmonary hypertension drug, another ph drug, another dieuretic that is supposed to help you retain potassium and then prevacid to try to keep her from throwing up.
Julia just came to sit in my lap and she is feeling so warm all over! Let's see if it stays contained to just the girls.
