Monday, March 17, 2008

Day 2 of the 2nd Visit

Well it is day two of our second visit with Madison and there has been no change from the first day!! We called the doctor because this morning when she woke up she had a fever and she keeps pulling at her ears. The doctor finally arrived around 2 pm just after we finally got her to sleep for a nap. Of course she did not like him checking her out and screamed and yelled during the whole time. The doctor wrote her a prescription for some ear drops and said that she would need to get two drops in each ear once a day for 7 days. This is easier said that done! I have to physically hold her down while Meredith tries to get the drops in her ears. The doctor also said for us to keep giving her Tylenol 1 dropper every 6 hours for 3 days only. Well since we brought the Tylenol with us we were able to read the label on it and the dose is every 4 hours which we are doing because of her constant fever. It is now 4 pm and we just finally got her back to sleep for a nap. It seemed that nothing works right now and the only one she wants to hold her is me(Wayne). Meredith did get a couple of pictures taken while she was asleep but haven't downloaded them to the computer yet because of having to deal with her. Will post them in a later post. On another note we finally met the other family today who is using our same adoption agency and whose daughter is a week younger than Madison. They seem to be really nice people.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wayne, alternate between that and Motrin- there should be Children's Motrin and give her 1/2 a tsp. It works faster the the other stuff b/c it has ibuprofen, but also can make them a little sleepy. Our Ped has always told us to alternate and they have been her age when they got them. It works like a charm. Make sure any bottles are given as close to a sit up position as you can. If she has a passy that makes her chances of having ear infections higher. Good job at calling the doctor. Anytime there is a fever just lightly touch the ears on each side and see if she winces in the future, if she does or your soon to be little guy does, then chances are they have one!

Feel free to email me if you guys have any questions or need help. Since we have 4 I am almost like an expert! LOL
KCotton@sc.rr.com