Hopefully, The "Sick Bug" Is Gone...

Well, what a week of visits to the doctor. On Monday afternoon, Brody woke up from his nap with a fever of 104.1, so we headed to Children's Mercy South. He was diagnosed with a left ear infection and croup. Much to my displeasure, the doctor prescribed Amoxicillin for him. I explained that Amoxicillin didn't work for any of us, but she was insistent that that was what he needed. On Wednesday, he was still spiking temps, so I took him to KU. We didn't get to see our PCP, but we saw another attending at the Clinic. She told me that he didn't have an ear infection, just fluid on his ear and that this was viral. At this point, I am very annoyed because I didn't think this was viral and I wanted Augmentin for Brody. On Friday, Brody was still having a lot of congestion and having temps. I emailed their PCP and she called in a script for Augmentin and he is doing much better! He is still having some congestion, but is not having any temps and he is acting like the Brody we know. Brynn just finished the last of her Augmentin this weekend. I take them back next week to have our PCP take a look at their ears to make sure their infections are gone. I feel all of this could have been avoided if the Mercy doctor would have just listened to me in the first place. In the future, we will be going to KU only. As you can tell in the pictures, Brynn is quite proud of her teeth and shows them off all the time. Brody finally has two whoppers coming in on the bottom. I guess we will cancel our investment in the denture stocks:) On a side note, the twins will be getting baptized in September. That should be interesting...we had to take them both out yesterday in church multiple times. Brody was fussy because he doesn't like to be held for very long and he was tired. Brynn decided church would be a good time to start yelling. The louder the church sang, the louder she yelled. I had to laugh at one point because I whispered to her that she needed to whisper and she jabbered something back to me in a whisper like she knew exactly what I meant:) That lasted about a half second. I even had another church member come up to me and tell me she was going to be a good singer someday! Ha!