I was really envious of everyone and their spring break trips this year. Not sure why, it hasn't really bothered me in the past, but this year it was different (maybe because I had a kid on spring break?). I looked at pictures of my sister in Arizona, brother and his family in Florida, friends in warmer weather and a co-worker in Florida. I knew our family was going to have a very special trip later this year and Nick and I had an amazing trip last November, but I was still envious of people in beautiful warm weather and wished I could be somewhere other than at work... BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.
Maybe I should step back a few days... on Tuesday, March 8th my hearing started to seem a little 'plugged'. That feeling you get when you are on an airplane and everything is muffled. I thought it would go away so I waited. The hearing never got back to normal, so that Saturday I went in to the Iowa Clinic Urgent Care to make sure it wasn't an ear infection. The Dr. said it was just fluid in the ear and prescribed steroids to help with that and my really bad allergies (which allergy medicine was doing nothing for at the time). Great, I should be better in no time!
Then Tuesday came. I woke up with a really bad headache, but figured it would go away. In the meantime, Neve was saying her throat hurt and since we had already had strep two times since the beginning of the year we knew the drill. Nick took her to the doctor and sure enough--- strep for the third time in two and a half months. Nick stayed home with her that day. This will help explain my thought process later, but for now back to me and my headache. It continued. Didn't get worse, but didn't get better. All day and all night.
Everyone was back in their normal routine on Wednesday. I still had my headache, but I thought it would go away with time (such an optimist). Wednesday afternoon came. Got a call from Neve's day-care and she was running a high temp. Guess we were leaving work early and staying home the next day. Picked up Ellie early from Beyond and Bell and was ready for a girl's night of TV and cuddles (Wednesday night is bike night for Nick so I was on my own with the kiddos). No sooner had we gotten home then Ellie started having stomach issues and saying it hurt to go potty. I got some medicine in Neve and her fever was down to the 102 range. She was comfortable and I could tend to Ellie who was bawling in the bathroom because it hurt so bad. My approximate text message to Nick: "Are you coming home and can you pick up bananas and cranberry juice on your way home." My sister messaged me and I told her our house was falling apart. She told me to call and listened to me cry about the girls being sick and my headache not going away. Such a great little sister I have- because everyone wants to listen to someone cry to them when they just wanted to say 'Hi'. In the meantime, Ellie ended up falling asleep and slept all night. Nick got home and said he would stay home the next day so I could go to the doctor or rest and not have to worry about the girls (yes, he is an amazing husband, but it only gets better).
The next morning I woke up from what sleep I could get with the headache and the hearing being the same as it had been the week prior. I figured I had either developed an ear infection (since I am prone to ear issues), had strep (Neve had it so why not me) or was having a reaction to the steroids (because the package said it could cause headaches). I tried to get an appointment with my regular doctor. She was out and they didn't have any open appointments in Internal Medicine OR Family Medicine until the next day. I said I would just go to Urgent Care (because I didn't want to wait). Off to Urgent Care I went at 8AM Thursday, March 17th.
To be continued...
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