Went to the doctor yesterday afternoon. After I described all of Mallory’s ills (see previous post) and after the doctor looked & listened to a bunch of Mallory’s body parts, it was decided that Mallory probably has a sinus infection. We got a prescription for Amoxicillan which, according to the doctor, will fix everything:
- she shouldn’t still have the thick nasty drainage coming out of her nose; if it was just a cold it wouldn’t last over a week. so the penicillin will help cure the infection in her head, which will clear up her snotty nose, which will make her cough stop since she won’t have any more nasal drip.
- the sinus infection is also probably affecting her sleep – supposedly laying flat can be painful when your head is all stuffed up.
- the penicillin usually causes loose bowels, so we might get some movement in that department, if you know what I mean. If not, we are supposed to try Miralax.
- the blister we saw may have been caused by any kind of virus, not necessarily Hand, Foot & Mouth; but if we only saw the one then we should be OK.
I also told the doctor about how we’d been doing Tylenol at night when she woke up and that she seemed to go back to sleep after that – she said that was fine.
Well, I am happy to report that Mallory went to bed almost perfectly last night and STAYED ASLEEP THE WHOLE NIGHT. I gave her a dose of Tylenol before bed along with her penicillin and we didn’t hear from her until 5.50a this morning (which isn’t bad considering she had a 2.5+ hour nap at daycare on Thursday and also wanted to go to bed without a bath at like 6.45p last night)!