Friday, June 02, 2006
Pray FOR Me
I realize I've been pretty non-existant lately. Not only did I start back to work full time for the summer, but Britain and I, along with my sister Michelle, spent Memorial Day in the ER. Her fever was 103 and actually INCREASED with Tylenol. It was an ordeal to say the least but 5 1/2 hours later they diagnosed her with another urinary tract infection and gave her a prescription for an anitbiotic. A big thank you, Michelle, for sacrificing your holiday when you could have been honoring the troops. Thankfully, we caught up on some old episodes of What Not To Wear. Eventually we stopped checking her temperature and just started asking Brit how high it was. She then would communicate to us by putting her hands over her head. "Soooooo high!" Britain, Matt and I were BACK in the ER the very next day, after many cool baths, doses of Tylenol and Ibuprophen, and some throwing up. Her temp was 104 and wasn't budging. They gave her Tylenol where I never want Tylenol to go again and gave her an anitbiotic booster in her leg. It seemed to do the trick and she's on her way to recovery, I think. We have an appointment with her specialist Monday when we'll know more on the specimen they took. My Grandmother said she'd pray FOR me, so I think it will all work out.
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Get well soon Britain!
I miss you too Tam! Hopefully we can hang out again soon. Have a great weekend.
It's weird they gave her Tylenol to reduce fever b/c I don't think it does. Ibuprofen does, of course.
I'll pester Hawk for his opinion tonight. As usual, he'll be evasive but I'll ask anyway.
Hope all is better today. I'll do a spell for you ;)
They would have given her IB but I had just done so two hours before (although they could have because she just yacked it up two seconds after I had dosed it out). Later they did...jammed it down her throat and I almost smacked the nurse.
I hope Britain is on the road to recovery. :)
A small child with a high fever is very scary. David was up to like 102 and we freaked out. We called our doc office and they said to keep up with the meds and perhaps a cool bath. It started to work after a bit, but it was very scary.
Oooh, I hope she's ok. That's gotta be a scary thing. Eeek.
Sorry I missed you at the shower. My manager kept changing my schedule, so I wasn't even sure if I could go by the time everything was all said and done, so I never RSVP'ed, and hence, I didn't come even though I did end up having the day off. Ugh.
So how's life anyway?
~Rachel~
Rachel,
You should have come anyway. Thats just silly. And why haven't you left there? No, I'm sure its better than DG. But really, what isn't?
Haha!! Definitely agree with you! I am trying to get out of Burlington though. Today, I'm going to utilize my day off and do some major job hunting. I saw Sue's Notary had an ad in the paper for full-time clerical work, so I'm gonna head over there, and I may stop at VOLT to get a temp thing goin'. I'm sick of this retail garbage. It's the same everywhere you go...*sigh*
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