Tuesday 31 May 2011

A Morning Tea With Little Friends - Then Sick, A Quick Trip to Kidz First at Middlemore

We got invited for morning tea at Jo's place on 17 April, the day after we got back from Rotorua.  It was fun.  I got to catch up with the girls, Jo, Sharon and Sam, and Lilli had morning tea with her little mates Maia, George and Amber Fern.



Another place where my little climber should not be going!!


On 19 May I took Lilli to the doctor because she has had this recurring irritation around her genital area.  It comes and goes and hasn't been too major but she has been getting the odd spot that looks a bit yucky.  The doctor said it was nothing major and to come back if it worsened. 

Of course the next day her 2nd of the back molars came through!  Poor girl.

Over the weekend she seemed pretty good, played with Graham and Fiona when they were up on Sunday and fed the chooks and gave them a pat on Monday afternoon (23rd).  When we got home she said to me 'Mummy I need to blow my nose.'  Ohhh, how good is that?!  Then later she said to me 'there's a knock on the door.  It's Toot and Annie.'  Hahaha.  Funny little girl.  :)

Then on 24th she had a fever of 39.5 degrees and was really unwell so I took her in to the doctors again. where we saw that her spots had worsened considerably so he prescribed Augmentin (which I am allergic to) and I said as much to him but he didn't think it would be a worry.

Well, of course it made poor Lilli vomit madly as well and of course being antibiotics they gave her the runs as well.  So the next day I took her back to the doctors AGAIN and was told that the spots looked better so to stop antibiotics and see how she goes - AGAIN.

Then on 28th I took her back again because she still had no appetite and terrible diarrhoea, plus she was sweating profusely at night.  When I would go in and check on her she would be absolutely drenched in sweat.  A couple of nights she actually woke up because she was so sweaty and she woke up to vomit one night as well.  Poor little girl.  The doctor said that test results had shown she had a staph growth (the spots on her bottom) and so he put her onto another antibiotic to see if that would help clear it all up.  Meantime during all this we are still growling our naughty kitten, Tommy.  We obviously call him the 'bloody cat' alot because she said to me 'Get the bloody cat out of the couch.  It's hiding under the couch!'.  Hahaha.  Even when she's crook she still tries so hard to have fun and be well.  Also it just shows how fast wee ones go from feeling terrible to being ok to back to being really ill.

She was doing ok on the antibiotics and keeping them down but then on 30th May she started vomiting again and still had the diarrhoea.  Here's my poor sick girl lying on the couch after she had starting vomiting again.  One of the few times that Tommy would just cuddle and not attack!  :)


The next day she couldn't keep anything down at all and was going poos about every 20 minutes and it was like water. She started showing signs of dehydration and was really lethargic so I got Nana to come around and take up to the doctors again.

Here she is lying on the seat in the doctor's waiting room.  She wanted her sunnies from the car and wore them until we went in to see the doctor. 


I pretty much knew what they were going to say but of course got a bit upset when I heard it anyway (pregnancy hormones didn't help) - the doctor wanted me to take Lilli into Kidz First at Middlemore Hospital. So we went home and packed bags just in case we had to stay and took off for Middlemore.


It seemed to take forever to get there so I imagine it will be worse when I'm in labour!! Anyway when we got there Lilli had a drink while we were in the carpark and kept it down. Then while we were there she drank some milk and kept it down and she started showing signs of getting better! Phew! They kept us in for a few hours and she didn't vomit once but of course as soon as we left she brought everything back up again!!

We still went home and were told to keep an eye on her. The doctor at the hospital thinks that in all the visits we did to the doctors for the staph poor Lilli picked up gastroenteritis! The vomiting should stop within 24 hours and the diarrhoea should stop in 7 days. Otherwise we are to go back to our GP again. Poor thing though she always gets everything at once, the staph, the gastro, the tooth, and then I got a cold on Sunday and she has caught that from me so through all this she has to deal with a blocked but runny nose, sore throat, and terrible flem.  Let's hope that she comes right now...

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