Saturday, May 31, 2008

The Eyes (and Ears) Have It

Well, Katherine turned seven months old not too long ago.  With another month of life comes yet another illness.  We took her to urgent care Saturday to discover that the allergies and cold she started having Friday spilled over and has caused infections in each ear and likely each eye.

The ear infections were because of sinus drainage, but the eyes may also be infected because of the kind of discharge that is happening with them.  It's very possible that when her nose was running she rubbed her face with her hands and then rubbed her eyes, spreading the bad stuff too.  I'm a little skeptical that her eyes are actually infected, but we have antibiotic drops just in case.

Friday night into Saturday she was pretty miserable and whined and moaned a good part of Saturday.  We're hoping that with the antibiotics she'll start to feel back to normal soon.

By the way, at the urgent care clinic today she weighed 13 pounds, 8 ounces!

I have pictures and video coming, but I'll take care of that stuff when illness things pass a little bit.

Smiles,
Michael