Savannah's Weblog

Pink eye symptoms go away really quickly after you start the eye drops. The night we started the drops, she developed a fever. By the fourth day, Tuesday, I took her to the doctor. Breathing was fine, but what I thought was a passing earache Saturday night was a slight ear infection. She's been coughing a while too.

She has been fairly cooped up since Saturday. She had to skip Sunday and Wednesday church services. I feel sorry for her. After the same amount of time with my headaches a few weeks ago, I got really depressed. She does not seem depressed, but she threw a terrible, screaming tantrum yesterday. It ended when she ran to her room and shut her door. So I told her she's lost her door for a week. (Although I have yet to get the other pin out.) She had been warned last time. She cried, "No, don't cut my door off!"

I resolved to take them out to day. We pulled thick hats down over their ears and wrapped them up. It was about 50 degrees out but windy, and coughing/ear infections and wind sounds like a scary combination to me.

She still gets feverish toward evening, but it's low grade. She went to bed nicely tonight and has been for a while. I told her if she feels all right in the morning we'd go for ice cream (and I didn't tell her yet but I have a merchandise credit at Gymboree.) As long as we're outdoors very little and we're not at the mall a long time walking and walking, I think we'll be ok with it.

Her tantrum made me feel like we were enemies. I felt fairly calm through most of the exchange, and although we seemed to move on afterwards being nice to each other, I felt a grudge coming on. It has passed. Today was cheerful even though she woke up at 4:20 coughing and couldn't get back to sleep.

I just realized I have to go to bed right now.