January Just Isn't Ayla's Month

Poor Ayla hasn't had the best of times this month. I've always said how healthy Ayla is and that I've never even had to put her on an antibiotic, but this month I guess we played a bit of catch up...

To start off the month Ayla had her flu booster shot and 18 month vaccinations. We then had an appointment a week later for an allergy skin test, which confirmed that she is indeed allergic to peanuts. Luckily, the counts from her bloodwork were low enough that it is hopeful she may grow out of the allergy. She will need to be retested for the next couple of years and if the counts continue to drop then we will be able to do a food test and little by little expose it to her. Of course, the opposite could happen and she could get worse as time passes.

After the allergy skin test we got a little break and then Ayla had the news that she is going to have a little brother...I'm sure we'll find out how she feels about that in a couple of months.

However, last Friday as I am preparing food for the missionaries Ayla starts to fever and cough. The fever lasted all weekend and come Monday evening when Milton got home from work she was very lethargic and had a temp above 102. We decided that we may not want to wait and headed to the ER. Well, that whole experience lasted way too long! 5 hours later, chest scans for pneumonia came back negative, urine sample was ok and our initial assumption of a virual infection was confirmed.

Thankfully, Ayla woke up Tuesday morning with no fever and seemed to be getting better but she was abnormally cranky. This morning I decided to schedule a peditrician appointment to try and figure out why she was so unhappy. Sure enough, she now has her first ear infection and was prescribed her first antibiotic.

So, so sum it all up, we've made more trips to the doctors in just one month than the rest of her 1 1/2 years combined. Poor girl! I think that the picture of Ayla and Milton in the ER gives you an idea of how sick our little girl was (and of course how tired Milton was).