Woke up this morning to kiddo's eye swollen shut and her cranky and grumpy. Didn't eat breakfast, spent the morning carrying her and singing, playing silly games, trying to keep her occupied and happy. Was able to get an appointment with the doc who diagnosed her with two ear infections and occipital cellulitis-an infection in the tissue around her eye.
sigh.
Nearly 3 hours, 2 shot of super-duper antibiotics, 4 severe melt-downs and a warning if the swelling didn't go down overnight we'd have to go to the hospital for stronger stuff we left the doc's office. I love that woman, I really do. The same health problem affects me every couple years (the last time was the day after I gave birth to kiddo-gotta love the newborn pics, looks like I ran into a door). I've seen at least 8 different doctors and no one could tell me what was causing it or why it happened. Kiddo's doc checked her over and then explained everything using a nose/ear/throat chart. Its always nice to get answers.
By supper the swelling was going down and kiddo was starting to perk up. Hopefully she'll sleep well tonight and be better tomorrow. And now we have an explanation for the hives that broke out last week-I knew it couldn't have been from food, she hadn't had anything new!
I love solving mysteries. :D
With all the chaos I ended up grabbing a Snickers along with a Diet Coke (aka brunch). Supper at least was kinda clean: roast chicken (but not organic, range-fed-sorry folks, I don't have the finances for the super healthy chicken), steamed green peas and salad (but with Sweet and Sour dressing {sugar and god knows what else}). Not a perfect Whole30 day but...
Tomorrow is another day, tra-lah tra-lah.
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