Dr. Mom

We made it 8 months but it couldn't last forever. Maddox is officially sick for the first time. We started noticing that he was developing a little cough on Friday and it has progressively gotten worse. I called the doctor's office on Saturday and they said to just wait a couple of days to see if he got better or worse. Unfortunately, his cough got worse and he continued to have a fever. Plus, he hasn't been sleeping at night and his appetite hasn't been very good which is not like him at all. I decided to go ahead and call them back this afternoon to have him seen and to have his ears looked at because he was SUPER fussy all day today and that just isn't like him. He was seen by the P.A. and she said that his breathing sounded fine and he didn't have a fever at the moment but his throat was super red and one of his ears was on the verge of getting an infection!! So she sent us home with a RX for some antibiotics and said that if he was still running a fever on Thursday to call them back. Hopefully though, the RX will get him to feeling better quickly!! All of you parents out there know that having a sick baby is no fun at all!!

Unfortunately, Collin is also sick right now!! He went to the doctor this afternoon and they told him that he has something viral!! So they sent him on his way with some cough syrup and told him to run the humidifier and use saline nose spray. Hopefully, the virus will run its course quickly and he will get to feeling better soon too.

I will have to admit that I am better at being Dr. Mom than Dr. Wife. For some reason it is easier for me to handle taking care of a sick child than a sick adult. I think it is partly because when I am sick I just like to be left alone to deal with it and when someone else doesn't like to be dealt with that way I just don't know what to do.

I really do hope that both of them get to feeling better soon though. And I hope that somehow I can make it through all of this without getting sick. So far I am feeling ok but I guess only time will tell.