Sick mama :(

When Emily got her ear infection, she and I both started to have a bad cough and cold as well. For Emily, she got her antibiotics and got better, but never really got back to normal. A few days after her Amoxicillin ran out, I noticed right away that she had pink eye. We took her in for that, and she got eye drops to clear that up. Her (and my) cold and cough still hadn't gone away as of Sunday, so I brought her in again on Monday. Turns out, her ear infection hadn't gone away, so they put her on Zithromax. It seemed like she started feeling better instantly after that. My cough, however, was getting worse by the day. I would have coughing "spells" where I literally couldn't stop coughing. Twice it happened at work, right as I was in the process of doing a venipuncture on a person. Not good. Yesterday night, I had a coughing spell so bad that I threw up. I called in to work sick today and went in to the doctor- for ME this time! Turns out, I have pertussis (whooping cough)!!! Even though I got vaccinated, there is still a small chance that a person can get it- I happen to be one of the lucky ones! ;) So I started taking Zithromax for me too. We're a sorry bunch here at the Stroh household.