We took Josie to our follow up neurologist appointment this week. Who knew our neighbor was a pediatric neurologist and his office would be so efficiently run that we'd get a call from his office to make the apointment after talking with him in the street? Really made it bad that we were 20 minutes late (lots of excuses lined up). What a nice change from chasing around the doctors that our pediatrican had recommended. He prounced Josie healed. Said there was no reason to do a followup CT and re-affirmed what the doctors at the hospital had said, that it was super tiny. That kids probably walk around unwittingly with those types of skull fractures all the time. What a relief, now to move on to nusing a couple sick kids.
Josie started a 102 degree fever on the Sunday we left for NJ. It came and went all week, ranging from 101-a high of 103.5 today. She and Eddie have summer colds and while we have Eddie on his usual cold-induced regimen of albuterol and pulmicort, Josie was the one who kept us both up last night. They've both been pushing their limits and been in pretty bad moods, one of our best indicators that they are ill, as they are usually pretty even-keeled. After a night of no sleep, we decided to see the pediatrican. As she listened to Josie's lungs and again to her lungs and again, then said she'd check her ears and throat and then we'd talk, I knew something was up.
She's got walking pneumonia in her right lung and an ear infection in her left ear. Poor Josie. I had the doctor check out Eddie just to be sure as he's been doing his share of the coughing around here. She said his lungs sounded fine, not perfect, but fine and his ears looked great. Even Den is in on the sickness--and he has to board a flight next week...
So we're laying low this weekend...
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