So Sick

This month we experienced Taylor's first major illness. She had a cough for about 3 weeks and it just got worse and worse. She coughed to the point is was painful and she also started wheezing so much that I worried about her ability to breath at night. She started on amoxicillin and 7 days later developed a horrible allergic reaction. She was covered head to toe in irritating hives (which she learned how to scratch). She was so miserable she didn't even want to take a bottle.... and this kid never turns down a bottle! She also tested positive for RSV that morning at the doctor's office. The rash progressed throughout the day, and by that evening we had to take her to urgent care as her face and lips were swelling to the point we didn't feel comfortable letting her go any longer. After 2 loooong hours at urgent care, a shot of epi, steroids, and lots of antihistamines, she was finally looking a bit better. She also got a chest x-ray which showed some pneumonia. How do babies get chest x-rays? Good question. Basically they put Taylor on a saddle, put her arms up in the air, and then enclosed a plastic tube tightly around her body. I still remember her little panicked face looking at me as she screamed. I don't blame her, it looked like a terrifying experience for my cold, naked, wheezing, rash-covered baby. She was so sick, and it was such a scary experience for us! The rash cleared within 4 days and the cough FINALLY abated at the end of that week. Whew! It's such an awful feeling when your baby is so sick and there's just nothing you can do to make it go away! I feel fortunate that she eventually got better on her own and didn't have to be admitted.