Tuesday night we got a call from Allison saying that the test results from Charlotte's visit Friday to the Doctor came back positive for Whooping Cough!! Since she has been getting her vaccines, and Allison made us all get whooping cough and flu shots before she was born or we couldn't help care for her....we are baffled!! I'm so glad that Allison is such an amazing mother, though, that they caught it so early on and started the treatments last Friday!
She took her to the Dr. a couple of weeks ago for a cold/or something because of Charlotte's cough that wouldn't go away. Of course, as all mother's know, she never coughed once for the Doctor and was all smiles and happiness, even though she had been keeping her mother up nights coughing!! So he would check her lungs, ears, nose, throat, etc... all clear and told her to come back in a week if it wasn't better or worse.... Allison had been trying to record the cough so the Doctor could hear it but of course that never worked out, so she started researching on the Internet coughs and told me that it sounds like whooping cough without the whoop!! She told the Doctor the same thing when we went back last Friday, and once again, all clear in the lungs, nose, throat, ears....still baffled, but believes what the mother is saying so they do a nose swab test for pertussis (whooping cough) and start her on the treatment for same.
Then Tuesday we find out its positive and we all need preventative treatment! So glad they had already started Charlotte and that the Doctor didn't just blow Allison off as not knowing what she was talking about!! And for someone with such a sad cough, Charlotte is amazingly happy! But she has always been a happy baby, Allison is lucky there. But when she is sleepy and during the night of course you can really tell that she doesn't feel good! Poor baby!! But she is getting better but she and Allison are stuck at home until the cough is gone....anywhere from 3 to 6 weeks!! Because of this I have been spending my Wednesday and Friday afternoons after work visiting with Allison and hopefully giving her some break and time to run errands if she needs to!!
Wednesday afternoonw with a cheerful sick baby girl!!
Friday I was all dressed and ready to go jog/walk when I got a text that said Allison was very ready for me to come....Charlotte had woken up every hour Thursday night all night long and Allison was very tired and probably really needed a break. So I decided I could workout at their gym while John was home for lunch and skipped the walk and headed right over to Allison and Charlotte! I was able to help watch Charlotte and get her down for a 2 hr nap and made is possible for Allison to get a break and try to rest too! This is what I wish I could do every day if I didn't work....so to me this was a perfect way to spend the vacation day...helping like I wish I could more often!!!
