2:03 p.m. - 2007-01-15
Sick kid continues
Ahhhh here I am, on my last and final day of my ever so wonderful six days off! I've been called twice in these last six days to see if I could come in and work but I couldn't because I always had something going on. So I'm guessing that it's been very busy and I have nothing to worry about in the way of not getting all my hours these next few weeks.
Cass is still sick. She was up much of the night but didn't wake me up. I wished she would have though. When I got up at 7:00 to check on her she was burning up. She said she had felt bad since 3:00 and I asked her why she didn't wake me up. Regardless, I took her temp and it was 102.2. She was looking like she had been run over by a mack truck. I gave her a Tylenol then and there and by 7:45 it had gone down a bit. I finally decided I was NOT going to wait until the clinic started answering their phones at 9:00 to get her in to be seen. So we promptly ran her over to the hospital to be checked out. Her temp had gone down to 99.9. At one point she was sitting up on the bed and started leaning a bit, I think sitting up made her a bit dizzy. The doctor came in and checked over all the routine things and sent us on our way with a prescription for antibiotics.
I called her father when we got home and he started asking a million questions. He was angry that they didn't do a nasal swab and check for influenza. I personally don't think it was influenza but then again, who am I? He's a respiratory therapist and sees very sick people all day long so he's always thinking everybody in his family has the worst of it. Regardless, I think she's going to survive. I think it'll just be a few more days of being down and then she'll get back up and be okay. It's winter, people are bound to get sick.
The birds over the last few days have been annoying as hell. 95% of the time they are quiet and nice to have around but man, these last few days they've been squawking like nobody's business. Jax has even separated them to no avail. This morning she let them both out and washed down their cage real good and got them fresh food and water and so far *crosses fingers* they've been quiet. I don't know what gets into those two but some days they are just bitchy. I guess they really ARE like people.
That is the monotony of my day. I really need to get a few good hours of studying in today and hopefully have a quiet evening. It's weird but I don't like it when my routine is out of whack. But I guess you make plans and then life happens right?
Is it spring yet? I've had enough of this flippin' snow already.
