back to normal!!!

We have gone to hell and back.
Isabella was sick with a cold for a week, then on the friday she started to have a 104 F temperature. Took her to the hospital because she was complaining of a neck pain and a stomach ache. I was thinking meningitis or appendicit. The tylenol would not bring the fever down. 5 hours at the hospital: they see nothing. Pass a urine test just in case. And nothing. They tell me to wait at least 3 days because with young children, a high fever is not always a big problem. So we wait the whole week-end, with a very high fever and coughing and difficulty breathing. I go on monday: it is a double pneumonia. X-rays, blood test, start of antibiotics. They now transfer us to the Gatineau hospital because it has a pediatric department. We get there for supposidely only one night, just to check the saturation in her blood. Next morning, the pediatrician comes to see us and they saw a bacteria in the blood. She has a pneumocock pneumonia and a big ear infection. New rules: 24 hours without a fever, to establish that the antibiotics are working on the bacteria. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday:still a fever. Go back for Xrays, they think they see water between the lungs and the lining of the lungs. So set for a sonogram on friday. Sonogram show nothing but the pediatrician still change the antibiotics to a full sprectrum one. Sunday, 2 am, no fever. Sunday 2pm no fever. 24 hours!!!! We are released on monday.
What an emotional roller coaster. I admire all parents that have to go trough this experience or any disease. You live on the words of the nurses and the doctors and the inhalotherapist. She was getting clapping session 3 times a day to detach the stuff from her lungs. You basically give her life in the hands of those professionals.
There was an inquiry from the epidiomology center because there is now a vaccine for that pneumocock. She had it in double dose at 1, 4 and 5. It was establish that she caught it at school. But nobody will ever know who was the carrier because nobody else got sick like her.

In the meantime, you have the in-laws that are worried as hell. So their ways of dealing with that is to bombard Vince with questions and commentaries:"obviously that is a lousy hospital, obviously those doctors have no clues..." Arrrrgggggg.
They love her and they don't mean any harm but if they only knew what a burden it was for Vince.

My diet has gone awired. No exercise either because I was at the hospital for the whole period. Vince slept there the first night because I would have collapsed. All other nights were me. I couldn't be away from my baby.
And now I have a bad cold. No wonder, I just held the fort for 10 days and now that she is better it is my turn to be sick.

35 days to Coppenhagen.