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My Life Thus Far
2006-05-06 03:54:45 (UTC)

Food Poisoning and Rampant Infection

Illness has descended upon the Allen household with a
vengeance and I have no clue as to how it happened :(
Actually, it isn't all of us. Annie and I are fine, it's
just Kiki and Snookums. The frail ones in the family. I've
always known Snookums to have a weak constitution and
apparently, Kiki takes after Daddy in more ways than just
looks.

This morning, Snookums woke me up whimpering and
complaining that he'd been awake, throwing up for hours
and needed me to call in sick for him. Well, that wasn't
going to happen. I called for him, but he couldn't stay
home. Today was the Change of Command ceremony for the
Stennis and he couldn't miss it. They made him go anyway.
I felt really bad for him. After the ceremony, they sent
him to medical. Apparently, he's got food poisoning. Bad
scallops (or shrimp) in his seafood scampi last night.
Thank God I'm not a big seafood person, because as bad as
I feel for Snookie, I'm seriously glad it isn't me.

Today was the day for Kiki's 12 month well-baby check-up.
I wasn't expecting much today. Maybe to hear that she's a
little overdoing it with the milk and needs to work on
walking, but I wasn't expecting to hear that she has an
infection in BOTH ears AND an upper respiratory tract
infection. She's been acting completely normal! Not at all
like a child with a raging infection in both her ears,
nose and chest, which are all being caused by her
allergies. Kiki is the most mellow baby, though. Maybe she
just didn't want to impose?

So, Kiki is on amoxicillin and a higher dose of Zyrtec.
Snookums was given a shot of phenergan (spelling I'm not
sure of), which is suppose to suppress vomiting (but isn't
working) and has only succeeded in making him very sleepy
(I had to drive him home from work today). I've loaded him
up on Gatorade and water. He had saltine crackers for
dinner and that's about it. So, my day was fun. I played
nurse Mommy. But, it's all in a day's work. I still
managed to make time for the gym :) My sanity was
restored. Ciao for now. Let's hope things are better
tomorrow...




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