Flu and Influenza Has Hit

Well we figured that this would happen to our little peanut sooner or later, the fall of her first sickness, that is. Of course it fell upon us to soon!!! She hit her first birthday and then by the end of the week, Whamoo!!! We noticed on Friday that she had started to have a bit of a runny nose and then as the night wore on, it was pretty apparent after two waking spells that she was going to be sick. Saturday it progressed pretty fast and we noticed she was pretty laboured in her breathing. We made the decision at that point to take her into Emerg at Children's Hospital. What an experience that was, the emergency room was like a morgue, people lying all around in the hopspital, masks and sickness everywhere. This H1N1 really has the world spinning. Anyway the staff was excellent, even though you could tell they were sadly being run off their feet. Addison was admitted hastily and seen by a pediatrician resident and sadly diagnosed with Flu/Influenza. She was given the Tamiflu medication for treatment and we were told to observe her over the next 5 days for any signs of the sickness getting worse; increased fever or lung wheeziness, which could mean that the sickness was not viral but bacterial. The first few days were horrible and I had myself convinced that she was developping pneumonia, I am such the worry wart. She did have a very rough few days.

As the week drew on, it appeared that she may be getting in the clear but then that quickly changed again come Wednesday. Addy's lungs were beginning to sound wheezy and she became very upset when we tried to settle her down for any type of sleep, Addy is normally such a calm, even tempered little girl. A trip to the after hours clinic confirmed our suspicions it was bacterial and she was developping fluid in her lungs and on her ear. So a perscription for anitbiotics and an inhaler for her lungs and away we went.

So it has been a few days now on the new meds and Addy seems to be coming back to herself more and more. She still has a nasty cough, but the wheeziness has disipated and she has that little light back in her eyes. She is finally eating again and has an appetite so all good signs. Even though so sick, she tried to give me a little smile each day, the smile now has life in it, with a little giggle behind it to boot. So she has faired through the first sickness well so far, and though horrible, at least is building up some sort of immune system for it too!! She is such a tough cookie, she impresses me more and more each day. Can you imagine if I had returned to work last week and this had occurred????? I am pretty sure it would have been a worse scene than it was with me home?

Sadly with all of this going on, Addy was unable to partake in her first (really second but we don't count last year) Hallowe'en Trick or Treating, but we dressed her up nonetheless and took some token shots. A visit from Tante Mo and Uncle Scott in their costumes was a little frightening at first but she came around.

Today she stood by and observed Greg and I prep our Jack O'Lanterns and decorate the front entrance for our Trick or Treaters. We got her out for a pic with the pumpkins, but sadly she slept through our 5 Trick or Treaters that visited the house!!! Yep only 5! So needless to say Greg and I have a sore belly after all the candy we have partaken in. All in all it was good Hallowe'en. Our little pumpkin is better and best of all she is home with us! Happy Hauting everyone.