Another Day Sick

I can't believe how much of a relapse I had today! I was feeling a bit better yesterday, even eating real food again. Last night, I got barely any sleep because my stomach was in a state of constant turmoil. Then the diarrhea returned this morning. And the constant state of nausea. I couldn't stomach the thought of any food. I managed 3 Saltines at around noon, and some plain sticky white rice a few hours later, but that's all I've eaten today. On top of the nausea, I now have post-nasal drip, some sinus pressure, sneezing, and coughing. And when I cough, my lower right ribs hurt. Oh yeah, and my ears hurt. I stayed home from work today (yesterday was a holiday). Fortunately, Brian stayed home today as well and helped out.

We brought Margaret to see her pediatrician because she's been wheezing pretty badly and had quite a bit of chest congestion. Plus she was screaming her head off this morning. It turns out that she has pretty bad ear infections in both ears and the doctor mentioned bronchiolitis again. I'm a bit puzzled by the latter, since I was under the impression from our last visit that he felt she had asthma and not bronchiolitis. But he says her symptoms point to that, and there's really nothing they can do for it. We'll continue with Pulmicort and Albuterol nebulizer treatments, but that's about all that's available for treatment for symptoms of bronchiolitis. It's basically a waiting game. He did prescribe amoxicillin for her ear infections, though.

I'll definitely be home again tomorrow. Besides how I feel, I want to give the antibiotics a chance to get into Margaret's system before she goes back to daycare. I was surprised when I called to give my boss an update this afternoon and she seemed understanding about me taking time off right now. I guess it's because I told her I was staying home for Margaret and downplayed my own illness. I told her the doctor cleared Margaret to return to school on Thursday and she actually said we'll see how it goes.

Of course, it also sucks that I have to pay for daycare all this week, even though she won't be there the bulk of this week. I'm very fortunate that I have so much earned sick time accumulated, because I could be in quite the financial bind due to an illness like this so early in the year.