One thing I know about myself is that I have strong instinct. For some reason I KNEW Ev wasn't feeling right. She acted fine and was being somewhat hereself but I could tell something was off.
Last Thursday she woke up with a rash on her face. I thought it was an allergic reaction and I still think it was but it came back yesterday. She also puked EVERYWHERE not spit up but actually throwing up. I HATE seeing her throw up like..it makes me bawl mostly because I can see how much it hurts and scares her. So I made a doctors appointment. I also tested her blood sugar and it seemed a tad bit high for a baby which also worries me very, very much. We went to the doctor and they said she is fine and sent us on our way. They told me to watch her blood sugar and make sure it doesn't continue to be high, it may just have been a 1 time thing, (hopefully). and if it happens a few more times we had a lab ordered so we could get her a1c checked. I pray to God she doesn't have diabetes.
Ev didn't throw up and she continued to be herself all day..until 3 am. She woke up screaming in pure terror. I have never heard her scream like that, ever.
It scared me so bad and nothing, I mean NOTHING would calm her down. I tried having her look in the mirror, I tried to play patty cake, I tried singing and nothing. She seemed absolutely terrified.
Now, I had been on edge because I had a terrible dream about Ev the night before and I was not going to sit around and have something happen that could be taken care of. I didn't care if it was nothing, I wanted to make sure. Plus Ev was even scaring my mom.
so we took her to the ER.
at first she was all happy and cute so I'm pretty sure the nurses thought I was nuts. But the doctor came in and looked at her ears and the she started screaming just as she had been.
That's when they understood.
The doctor said it was an ear infection. Which irritated me because the pediatrician (not her normal one) said her ears were fine. Granted she was a wiggle worm when he was checking but still. its a bad one too, shes had ear infections before but not this bad..
so I was very irritated. But we got Ev some ear numbing drops, ans antibiotics and she is back to her cute happy self today.
But I knew something wasn't right and I had a feeling for a week that something was wrong. She had been crying funny, swallowing funny, and she hadn't been sleeping. I'm glad I followed my instinct and took her to the ER or my poor lady would have been in so much pain :(
It killed me to see her in that much pain. I bawled because I felt so bad and there was nothing I could do. I just wanted her to be alright. You could just tell she hurt so much but after her medicine she finally could sleep and she even got a free teddy bear! (which she wanted nothing to do with at the ER but when she woke up, she was all for it!)
That's a hard thing as a mom is watching your kids hurt and not being able to do anything about it.
But its the best feeling when your baby wakes up happy and not hurting!
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