IN HOSPITAL / NEW YEAR!

Firstly i would like to say a HUGE Happy New Year to everyone, i hope you had a really great night & that 2007 brings luck, health & happiness to everybody.

So as the title states "in hospital" & thats where Charlii & i spent the day yesterday, for our last day of 2006.

Charlii is teething really badly at the moment( 2 teeth are coming through at the front) so she has been a bit grizzly with that...understandably! Her cheeks have little rosy rings on them & the drool is uncontrolable. Sorry to say that isn't the only problem....

We have been dealing with that quite well but the last few days the screams seem to be getting louder, longer & more severe, she hasn't been drinking her bottle properly & she has a cough & a runny nose.

I went off to the chemist & bought some Baby Panadol & some Baby Demazin for her cold & flu & gave her that for 2 days. The Demazin made her get tummy ache to i immediately stopped giving that to her, only if she was desperate i would give her some. She began to start throwing up the Panadol as soon as i gave it to her but although she was throwing up the panadol i couldn't give her anymore as it was already in her system so it was hard for her to get some relief. Maybe she doesn't like the flavour?

So yesterday after 3 sleepless nights i decided to take her to the doctor, not thinking that as it was New Years Eve nothing would be open!

I rang my sister to get some advice (she always knows what to do) & she explained to me that because everyone around her had a sore throat & a cold & that she had a temperature of 38.6oC i better take her to the hospital to get checked out, just to be sure.

Off we went (followed by mum & dad) to our local hospital where she was checked out. They took her temperature, heart rate, checked her ears, throat & everything else. They then gave her some differen't panadol to what i am giving her (she took it all) & she ended up drinking half her bottle & going to sleep. While she was asleep they wanted to test her urine so they put a little wee bag on & we waited until the nurses could test it. The results came back normal so after quite a few hours of worry they put it down to a Virus & sent us home. They didn't give me any antibiotics to give her they just said to keep giving her panadol.

It was so hard though, she just looks so sad & keeps crying all the time & there is nothing that i can do! I want to help her but cuddles & kisses is all that i can give. I can tell you now a mother's love is unconditional, i have never felt such pain & love for anyone before. All i wanted to do was to take the pain away from her. It was so hard for Clint as well as he was at work all day so he couldn't give his princess a cuddle. He sure made up for it when he got home though, he was so happy that she was alright.

After another sleepless night last night she seems to be a little better today, still sleeping a bit which is a good sign & her temperature has dropped. She is still extremely lethargic & doesn't want to play at all but i have got a couple of smiles out of her so hopefully she is at the end of the sickness.

If things don't start getting better by tomorrow i will take her to see a doctor but i think she will be fine. Bit scary for a minute though.

So i am going to go & give her lots of TLC & give her lots of cuddles to make her better.