Sunday afternoon was just like any other lazy day. We had just come in from the pool where Addison and Claire both had a blast and really, FINALLY, started swimming. Claire has gotten into this new habit of stealing Addison's shoes that are haphazardly laying around and sticking them on her hands. It really peeves Addison and she always uses her Mommy Voice, "Cwaire, do NOT do that Aaannyyymore!", which consists of lots of clipped tones and words. As John and I were enthralled in the Man Vs Food marathon that was on the Travel Channel, we hear they thud. The one that let's us know that Claire has taken a spill. John looks at me and says, "I don't understand how she just falls randomly." After a few seconds, Addison looks at us, who has been watching the whole thing unfold, and says, "Uh OH! Cwaire have blood!" We immediately jump up, John gets to her first. And sure enough, blood is coming out of her lip at an alarming pace. We get over to the sink and start to clean it up, and John is asking, "did she bit through it? what about her teeth?" And about that time, blood starts coming out of her nose and I start my investigation on whether it's broken or not. We get the bleeding stopped and decide that she does, indeed, need to be checked out "just in case". Which, I hate doing, simply because it's a $35 co pay down the drain. Normally, they just check you out, say, "Oh she's fine! Just keep doing what you are doing!" and then I'm $35 poorer. But, I was worried her nose was possibly broken or she was going to need stitches, so we went to Urgent Care. Her nose was in fact, NOT broken and the doctor would do stitches for the fact that it's inside the lip, but it looked really bad.
So, that was our Sunday evening. Monday goes off without a hitch, with me going to Huntsville to get my car serviced and Tuesday morning is no different, with Addison crawling into my bed around 6:30 as John is on his way out the door. Claire wakes up around 7:30 and I get up with her. Addison sleeps until about 8:45, which she NEVER does. When she woke up, she was BURNING UP. Like, she'd been sleeping wrapped in a heating blanket all night. I give her a few minutes, to cool down, thinking it was just warm under my covers and she tends to radiate heat anyway. I take her temp. It's 104. I take it a few minutes later and it's 103.5. At this point, I decided to just give her some Tylenol and see what that does to her fever. Over the next few hours it brings it down to around 101.5 and after her nap it's 103.5. So I load the kiddos up and take them to Urgent Care again. They recognize us, and I assure them that it's the other child this time. The lady takes A's temp and it says 99.6. I said No Way. She takes it again. 99.5. I just decide that she doesn't know how to take a temperature.
So, they do a strep test and it's negative, but all signs point to strep, so that's what we are treating. Strep Throat. Great.
After one dose of medicine, she was already feeling better and after the second dose, she is pretty much back to normal, just a not as hungry version of herself. Which, has been kind of awful, she is still contagious until tomorrow afternoon. So, we can't go anywhere. Boo.
Anyway, here is a picture of her with chocolate on her face and a video of her dancing and singing to Lady GaGa, who is her very favorite.
Addison Sings Lady GaGa from
Rachel McPhillips on
Vimeo.
Hope You Enjoy!
