First Sickie of the Year

Yesterday morning when I woke Maddy up she had this weird look about her. I asked her what was wrong and she simply said, "Look!" as she pointed to her nose. Her nose was just pouring snot, but it was clear thank goodness. It's normal for her to have a runny nose throughout winter, except this winter she hasn't had that problem thankfully, so I was hoping it was just the typical runny nose. On the way school I kept watching her in my mirror and she just looked like she didn't feel good. She wasn't smiling or playing...just sitting there playing with her hair. I got off the exit I normally do and as we were stopped at the red light my gut told me to just turn around and take her back home. Did I listen? of coarse not. I proceeded to take her to school. I fully expected them to call me to come get her, but they never did so I thought everything may have been just fine. When I picked her up they told me she acted like she didn't feel good and she coughed all through nap. She only napped for 35 minutes and she looked pretty bad. I snapped a pic of her before we left, but this is before she started to look real bad.

She's always tired on the way home but she fights through it and talks and plays and sings and sometimes yells at mommy lol. I noticed it was really quiet and when I looked back at her she was sound asleep. I let her sleep until she woke up, which was around 6:45 p.m. I carried her in the house and she curled up in my lap and just sat there and watched tv, which is something she never does. She asked for bite bites, but didn't eat any. I put her to bed and the only way she would let me leave is if I told her I would be right back. I told her I had to work but that I'd be right back...she said ok and let me go. I couldn't work as late as I normally did because I was worried about how she felt. I had taken her temp before I put her to bed and it was 100.1. I felt bad that she wanted me to stay in there and I had to work. I knew I wouldn't be going to work Tuesday so I chose to forget about trying to work and just focus on Maddy. I peaked my head in her room and finally saw her sitting up in bed. I crawled in her bed with her and told her I was back and she could lay down and she fell forward on me and fell sound asleep. I did my best to take a picture of her sleeping on me but I didn't get a good one...here is what I did get...

Had I not been propped up on my arm, she probably would have laid there all night. I had to get off my arm though because it was really hurting. She did lay back down on me for a while longer. I had trouble sleeping because I worried that she would break out in a high fever and I would have to take her to the ER. I stayed awake until around 1:30 a.m. before I was finally able to go to sleep. The night before she was coughing non stop and last night she didn't cough at all. I had refilled her humidifier last night and I think it was a huge help in her coughing. When she woke up this morning she seemed just fine, just sounded really stuffy. I was thinking I could have sent her to school, but I'm glad I didn't. Her nose was still running nonstop and it had changed from clear to green. While she was eating her breakfast she started coughing, then got choked on her mucous. She ended up throwing up and a good bit of mucous came out. It really scared her. After that incident her nose went back to clear and it seemed to not run as much. I'm figuring if it isn't a sinus infection it's allergies. I'm thinking it's more allergies because aside from night before last she has no fever and it's not consistently green snot. We got to do a lot of playing today and had some good quality one on one time that we hardly ever get. I really hate that she was sick, but I really enjoyed our day together. We watched Bob and Sprout and ate cupcakes and fruit and cornbread and played house and rolled ball and worked on mommy's coupons and then played more house and other things. She did end up locking herself in her room this afternoon, but luckily I got the idea to take her doorknob off. It wouldn't let loose at first, but I say God intervened and turned it loose. I will either be switching doors because my room has no lock on it or will be getting the child proof doorknob covers so she can't do that again. She no longer has that I don't feel good look about her. The only thing that has me concerned right now is she only used the bathroom once and it didn't even fill her diaper. She didn't drink a whole lot today and I tried to encourage her to but she only took a few sips. Her throat may not feel real good but I really don't want her getting dehydrated. Hopefully tomorrow she will wake up feeling even better.