Poor sick Sam
pamelamyers | March 14, 2011
Poor little Samantha has been through quite a bit lately, health-wise. First, about a week ago, she developed a bad diaper rash. She has never had diaper rash so it was quite unusual. I treated it with regular cream for about 3 or 4 days, but it wasn’t getting any better, so I called her pediatrician. I was lucky enough to actually speak to a doctor and he said it sounded like a yeast diaper rash and told me to use Lotrimin cream 3 times a day. Sounded good to me! So off Sam and I went to the pharmacy to buy her cream. The rash never looked that bad, not at all like the Internet photos I saw, but I had no idea why it was not responding to diaper rash cream, so I figured yeast it must be! The worst part was that in addition to being red and bumpy, it was itchy, which made Sam crazy. The poor little girl was always scratching her butt! The doc said it should start to get better in about 3 days so I was really glad about that.
So, I treated it for 4 days. Well, the 5th day it looked worse than ever and had spread! I called and spoke to a doctor again and got her an appointment for that day. The doc we saw that day (one of my faves) said it did not look like yeast to him, but rather was probably bacterial so he prescribed yet another type of cream. Off Sam and I went to the pharmacy again! This time, however, it did the trick! One day of treatment and the next day the rash was completely gone! I was so happy about that. But, here comes the ominous music — DUM DUM DUM — Sam now has a cold.
She woke up on Saturday just miserable! The night before she was cranky and irritable and wanted to go to bed really early so we let her. She woke up coughing with a runny nose and fever. She was coughing so hard she actually vomited a bit (all over my pajamas and hair – yay!). I called the pediatrician AGAIN (this is more phone calls that I think I have ever made to her doctor in her entire life) to make sure it couldn’t be connected to her rash and be a bacterial infection that would need antibiotics. The doctor I spoke to (I love this practice!), said most likely not, it was probably just a virus. So, poor sick Sam has been hacking and coughing and sneezing and just so pooky. On Saturday all she wanted to do was cuddle and be hugged all day, which I have to admit, Mark and I loved. She is so squirmy all the time now that a cuddly Sam was a refreshing change.
But as you can see from the acorn photos I posted, she was her usual self pretty quickly. Happy, and smiley. She tries so hard to be happy all the time even when she is sick. She is bouncing (she recently discovered she can bounce on her crib mattress) and playing and smiling and being her joyful self. Hopefully, she will feel 100% better soon. It is so hard not being able to do much for her cold. Get better soon, Sam!
