Very long week for Maddison =(

Well this post isn't the most pleasant, but the next one will be. Maddison has been sick since Monday night (it is now Saturday night) when she developed Pink Eye in her left eye. Tuesday we took her in, she had a low-grade fever, got some drops for the eye, also diagnosed with a URI By the end of the day it crossed over into her right eye as well. Fever got out of control (over 104) all through the night horrible hacking cough, so bad she was hacking up huge masses of mucous (enough that it was like throwing up). Wednesday her condition worsened, fever stayed very high and Mortin was only keeping it down 3-4 hours at a time. As soon as it wore off, it would spike back up to over 104. I took her back in for a throat culture because she said it hurt her mouth to swallow. Strep test came back negative so no antibiotics were given. Thursday and Friday no signs of any real improvement. She would have ups and downs throughout the day. Saturday we went and had our ultrasound (that will be the next post). She seemed to be doing much better and I even felt silly for calling the doctors office the day before and leaving a message with the nurse. They did call back, just waited until they were closed to when I missed their call and tried ot call back they were closed of course. Anyway, after the scan we went to Target where she seemed very tired. She fell asleep on the way there, and on the way to PPP for Justus' birthday. Unfortunately we couldnt stay longer than 10 minutes or so because of her condition, but she was so ill she just wanted to go home and sleep anyway. She fell asleep on the car ride home and was extremely cranky when we got home and laid her down. She was crying over nothing, and then said she wanted ot watch a movie. We put one on, and she fell asleep shortly after. I'm not sure exactly how long she was sleeping, but she woke up SCREAMING as though the dog had bitten her arm off or something. Marc ran to get her, and as he passed her to me, he noticed her eye. Her eye had swelled up to about 3x the normal size, just her left eye. She was fire hot, and when I sat her down to take her temperature I noticed she was covered in a rash. After looking for some sort of bite or scratch to cause it we took her into Urgent Care. She had intercostal retraction and her O2 sats were a little low due to her excessive congestion so they gave her a breathing treatment, which brought her skin color from bright red to normal, and oddly enough, her eye swelling went down about half the size during this as well. They still don't know what caused her eye to swell but she was diagnosed with Scarlet Fever due to undiagnosed and untreated strep. The strep also went into her lungs causing the horrible congestion and hacking. and the lack of her ability to breathe. So they sent her home with antibiotics and steroids. She should show some improvement within 24 hours with the steroids and if not - straight ot the ER we go. Poor girl =( She's doing fine right this minute, she doesnt look anything like her normal self, her eyes are very swollen and dark and she has a very raspy voice, but right this moment she is her happy self. Hopefully she will do okay tonight so we can both get some much needed sleep (I've been up since 4am!), and hopefully she improves tomorrow!