Friday, December 26, 2008

For Christmas: Bronchitis and A Tooth

The title of this blog basically sums up our last few days...as earlier reported Monday Olivia came home from daycare with a 104 degree fever. The rest of the week we noticed that she was becoming more and more congested, the fever was clearly the early stages of a yucky cold. Wednesday a.k.a Christmas Eve the cough started, we hosted Christmas Eve dinner here with my parents. Olivia was a champ despite feeling like crapola, she opened some presents, ate about 4 rolls and went to bed around 8pm.

She was up at 11pm, coughing her tiny little face off, it was heartbreaking, we gave her a nebulizer treatment and she was coughing and struggling to breath until she fell back to sleep in the bed with me at 1am. She was up again at 4:45am. Brad took over at 5:45 and by 6am she was asleep, and awake again at 8:30am, a rough rough night for all. My parents arrived Christmas Morning at 8am, and were here when Olivia and I came down the stairs for the first time, her first glance at the tree. Here she is, her first glance of the tree and all the presents.



Olivia was a trooper, she opened presents, played like a rock star and mooched food off of every one's plates. She went down for a nap around 1pm, I napped, Brad rode the bike and then when she woke up we went over to my parents for Christmas Dinner. Olivia was NOT interested in dinner and threw her oranges all over the place. So now we can add "throwing" to the hitting and no phase, what a trio.

We took her back to the Doctor today, another negative test for RSV, but she came home diagnosed with Bronchitis. She is now doing breathing treatments several times a day and is on antibiotics, we are hoping she can kick the cough in the next few days, but her Doctor said he expected a slow recovery, that it would likely take her a good 2 weeks to kick it. Not what we wanted to hear, we are hoping she feels better long before then. We are happy to report that the breathing treatment goes much smoother when she is in front of the TV watching her crazy Nursery Rhymes.


Brad and I need to pick our Avery's Glider this weekend so we can order it, and we were hoping to go to dinner and a movie, but with Olivia feeling like garbage we will likely put that on hold until she is feeling better. Last night we watched What Happens in Vegas with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, HILARIOUS, exactly what we both needed, a light cute comedy. And tonight we are watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, too much camera time for the Twigs and Berries if you ask me...WOOF.

Brad's parents are planning to come up for a few days starting on the 31st or 1st. We are planning on spending NYE with our neighbors, low key, but lots of fun, the best way to ring in the new year, with great friends.

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