Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

It's a quiet holiday at the Pleimann house. We were going to Dave's aunts house for the holiday but....

Monday Abby came home from daycare a little under the weather.

By Tuesday morning it was obvious something wasn't right. Thankfully I was furloughed and we stayed home together. Abby was really clingy, running a low fever and a very snotty nose.

This is Tuesday morning.

Wednesday morning she seemed to feel a little better but after her morning nap her fever jumped to 105.1! It was scary. We had to wait almost two hours to hear back from the doctors office, apparently all of his patients were sick Wednesday. We upped her Tylenol dosage and within an hour her fever was back down to 102.5. She was having a hard time sleeping in her crib because she was so congested so I let her take her afternoon nap laying on my stomach. Abby woke up starving, but she wouldn't eat much. We quickly realized we had another problem. Her fingers and lips were turning purple. So we plugged the space heater in her room, bundled her up and gave her another dose of Tylenol. Dave called the nurse back she said if she didn't have red circles on her body (a sign of meningitis) she was just sweating out the fever. About 40 minutes later her color was back and she was herself again... or at least the cranky sick version of herself.

She stayed up until 9pm last night, which is very unusual for Abby. She slept through the night, until 5a. She's been more active today, but still pretty sick. She went down for her morning nap, only to wake up 15 minutes later coughing. Then she was exhausted, and couldn't sleep. She then screamed while I held for for the next 1.5 hours. Her fever hasn't been as high as yesterday, but most of the day she didn't seem much better.

This is her in between the screaming/fussing....

Dave is out picking up our Thanksgiving dinner from his Aunt Mary Kay's house right now and dropping off the desserts. Not the ideal way to spend the holiday but it could have been much worse. Hopefully it's coming to an end and by next week she'll be back to normal.

Happy Thanksgiving