Poor Owen was sick for almost a month this winter. He started out with a pretty nasty sounding cough and runny nose, and then started running a low grade fever. I took him to the doctor and he was diagnosed with a sinus infection and was started on 10 days of amoxicillin. After a few days he was acting like himself again. He finished the 10 days of antibiotics, and two days later the cough was back. He woke up one night and felt slightly warm, but he had been covered by his blanket. I uncovered him and rocked him a few minutes and he went right back to sleep. I went to work that day and was called by daycare around noon saying that Owen was running a fever and needed to be sent home. I took him home and figured I would just watch him because the fever was low grade. By the next day he was pretty darn sick, running a 102-103 fever consistently, despite Tylenol and Motrin. Poor little guy just laied on the couch. It is pretty sad when a two year old does not play with toys for days. I tried to call the doctor to get him an appointment, but they had already closed for the day due to the blizzard. I think by mid afternoon we already had 12-16 inches of snow. He went to the pediatrician the next day and was diagnosed with bronchitis and a sinus infection. My guess is when we were in the office two weeks back he actually had the start of bronchitis, but was not put on a strong enough antibiotic to completely get rid of it. While he was being treated with antibiotics he felt better, but right when his course finished, he was sick again. He was prescribed a stronger antibiotic. I thought he would be feeling better quite quickly, but it actually took him about 4 more days to recover. After he recovered from the bronchitis he still had a bit of a runny nose and was not sleeping great at night. He was fussing and rubbing his ear one day when I noticed drainage coming out of his left ear! Then it all made sense... the runny nose had caused an ear infection. Thankfully he has tubes, and we were given antibiotic ear drops when he had them placed, so we did not need to take another trip to the doctor. Actually getting 4 drops in the affected ear 2 times per day as ordered was quite a challenge. It was a two man job, on person to practically lay on him to hold him down and the other to put the drops in. After 20 days total of antibiotics in 30 days Owen was finally healthy!
