Update on Addison

Thank you all so much for your prayers during the night. I am so thankful that people, some who I don't even know, are lifting us up.

After I blogged last night I went to check on Addison and she was still wide awake, wheezy and just generally uncomfortable. I decided to google Amoxicillin and see if there were any side effects- and there were! (Just for the record, if you know me, then you know that Marc pretty much banned me from googling any kind of illness. But he was in bed sick, so I got away with it!) So they side effects included a rash, insomnia, no wet diapers and other nasty things. Addison had what I thought were 3-4 of the symptoms so I knew I could not rest. I called our out of hours service and was told to take her to the hospital to be seen, at 12:40am. Lovely. We were both wide awake anyway, so I loaded her up in the car- even though we only live a few hundred yards from the hospital. I was not about to walk up there in dark with my baby at that time of night, or morning. (I prayed the whole way up there and out loud in the car park! Ha!)

I was not impressed with the doctor at all. She was very strange. She told me to stop the antibiotics, that her chest was all clear and her eczema was really bad. She said there are no allergic reactions to Amoxicillin and there was nothing she could do for us. Alrighty then. We got home around 1:30am and she was finally asleep around 2am. I could not sleep much and kept thinking that this information did not sit well with me. This morning I phoned our doctor and explained the situation and just asked if it was okay to stop her medicine like that. She told me to come in at 11am, so that's where I've been!

The Lord worked it out that we got in to see the same doctor who prescribed her the medicine last Monday, so I didn't have to go into all the history of the week! He agreed her skin was looking worse, but was not sure it was related to the medicine. She has some type of rash on top of the eczema so it was hard to tell. He listened to her chest and neither lung is cleared up, contrary to what the doctor last night told me! He was kind of shocked that I was told her lungs were all clear and to stop the medicine. Thank you Lord that you gave me the wisdom to get her back in to the doctor!! So, we are now on new medicine and new lotions. The new antibiotic is a double whammy he said, it's good for chest infection and skin problems. So, I'm praying she is feeling better soon! (Is it wrong to say that I'm ready for school to start again next week?)

Oh, and you can pray for me and Addison to avoid the tummy bug. The people on both sides of us last night in the hospital waiting room were puking into a bucket while we waited. I think one guy was just drunk, but the other one was in cold sweats and all. Lovely.

TGIF.
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