These last two weeks....
Date: Dec 18th, 2006 7:34:46 pm - Subscribe
Mood: frightened


 So I have been absent from work for about two weeks and today is my first day back. It's odd. My son was sick and so I was staying home to take care of him. He kept getting worse so I kept taking him to he dr, but no one could tell me anything. Finally they said he had an ear infection. But he was still getting worse with symptoms that have nothing to do with an ear infection. I took him back for the third time and they finally found whats called RSV. Its a horrid respitory virus that was so bad he had to be hospitalized for four days. It was horrible seeing my little boy with tubes and oxygen sticking everywhere. They had to do breathing treatments in the hospital, which I also have to do at home every 4 hours. Although he is better now, and can finally go back to daycare, it is still traumatic for me. Every little cough or runny nose scares me. It was very lethel and I am officially a paranoid parent.

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frost - December 18th, 2006
That sucks. I bet my mom can relate. When I was 1 years old, she said I would scream and cry non-stop due to ear infections. They had to put tubes in my ears. They only put temp's in because when I was 2 and they fell out, the ear infections started again.

She than took me in again and they put permenant tubes in my ears this time. I still would get really bad ear infections, which would result in me screaming etc.

When I started to talk my mom said I would always yell because I couldn't hear myself. At the time no one expected me to ever hear, I was declared 80% deaf.

But my hearing was never lost. Although my hearing is not the best, especially in noisy places I am very thankful I can hear. In light of thatI remember my little sister looke up to me and when she started talking she watched how I talked and ended up having the same speech inpediments I had. (I had to take special ed classes to correct my speech).

Finally when I was 12 I had my permenant tubes removed. When I was 13 after swimming one night I ruptured my eardrum and had to have them re-built. Since the re-building I have had minimal ear problems. I can only recall 1 ear infections.

To this day I am still freaked out about having my ears underwater.

Anyhow, I hope that was the worst of it.

--FrosT
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