This week was absolutely crazy!!! So be warned ahead of time that this is going to be quite long, but I'll put pictures in along the way to keep you entertained.
This week started on Monday when I received a text from Wade during my Biology class. The text was to tell me that Emily had a fever of 102.7. Might I add that this is a three hour class and it had just started. I know what you are thinking...she was okay because she was home with her daddy and he can take care of her. Well let me tell you that I am one of those moms that think I have to be there for my daughter at all times and that noone can take care of her like I can. I know I shouldn't be that way but I can't help it, she's my baby.
Well Tuesday was my day off so instead of spending the day studying and running errands I stayed home with my sick child. She continued to run a fever all day and it stayed at just below 103 for most of the day. Then at about 4:00 she started to get alot warmer. Her fever started to go above 103 and started to reach 104. Of course I started to get scared. She was laying sprawled out on the couch with her eyes half open and wouldn't respond to me. I've never had a child do this around me so I had no idea what to do, so of course I did the one thing I know how to do...I called my mom immediately. She told me to put her in a luke warm bath tub to lower her body temp and to give her motrin instead of Tylenol. The bath tub worked for about 20 minutes but thankfully the Motrin started to kick in and her temperature came back down to below 103.
Okay now on to Wednesday...the worst day of the week. Wade stayed home with Emily because I had to return to work (of course she had to get sick during the one week that we are extremely short handed at work). I called home every 30 minutes to check up on her. Her temperature stayed at about 102-103. Well when I came home I found Emily laying on the couch naked with cold wet cloths on her. Her temperature had begun to spike again. She was crying and saying that her head hurt. I told Wade that it was time to take her to the emergency clinic. At least if we took her and they told me it's just a virus and to let it run its course I would know that she was okay. When we left the house her temperature was at 103.5, the highest it had been yet. In the clinic when they took her temperature it was already up to 104.8. The nurse immediately gave Emily motrin. Then the doctor came in to check her out. He said that what she has probably started out as a virus but because of the virus and the high temperature she developed a massive ear infection in her right ear. (she didn't complain about her ear hurting until earlier that day) They then took her temperature again since it had been 30 minutes since giving her motrin. Her fever was up to 105.6. Things were starting to get very scary for me!! They gave her a popsicle and gatorade to try and cool her down but she didn't want either one. We had to stay there until her fever started to go down. Me being the way that I am started to cry because I couldn't believe that I had let her be so sick. I know it wasn't my fault and that there was nothing I could do. But still as her mother I felt like I should have been able to make her feel better. We finally took her home with antibiotics and orders to give her tylenol and motrin every four hours. I am happy to report that she did not run a fever again once we were able to get it down Wednesday night.
Thursday Wade stayed home with her again. She never ran a fever but she was moody and extremely tired. In fact when I got home she was a screaming crying mess. Of course it was because she was still not feeling very well.
Finally Friday came. I decided to take her back to school since she had been fever free and on antibiotics for over 24 hours. She did good, she was just a little low on energy.
Finally Friday came. I decided to take her back to school since she had been fever free and on antibiotics for over 24 hours. She did good, she was just a little low on energy.
This is how she looked that night: 
Yay she was feeling better!
Now to talk about me :) In January I decided that I was going to loose all the weight that I have slowly added on since leaving highschool in 2001. Plus the extra weight from having Emily. I started watching what I've been eating and haven't had a real soda since then. I have also joined Weight Watchers with two of my co-workers. Things have been going well. This week I had to weigh in on Saturday instead of Thursday like usual because of Emily being sick. Well this week I lost 1.8 pounds which is the most weight that I have lost in one week over the last 6 weeks that I have been a member. This now brings up my total weight loss to 4.6 pounds. This is how much I have lost since joining WW. Before that I had already lost about 10 pounds or so. I started out weighing 145 and I now weigh 130. I am looking forward to hopefully losing more weight this next week and not only getting my 5 pound star but also weighing less than 130 which I haven't done since 2001. I must admit that I feel great! I am starting to notice the little differences in my body and have gone from a size 12 to a size 10. I am probably smaller than that since I already need to buy new jeans eventhough I just did about two or three weeks ago.
Okay I just had to toot my own horn up there :)
Now onto our weekend. Saturday we went to Sea World. Since Emily was feeling soooo much better and Wade and I actually had the same day off we figured it was the perfect day to go. Plus it was so nice outside. It happened to be family Praise Day which was good for us because a Christian band that I love was there. We went to all the great shows except for the sealion show :(, there just wasn't enough time. Emily's favorite thing at Sea World is the sharks, which of course excites me because sharks are my favorite too.
Here are some pictures of our great day!
He tried to come up the wall to get our fish :)
