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The Tater Tot still has whatever it is that she has and it is not getting better. By my rough calculations she is down 2 pounds because all she will eat is apple sauce. I don’t care how much applesauce you eat, you will not maintain your weight eating it alone. Hey, maybe I can create The Applesauce Diet, make a gazillion dollars as the diet fad of the moment and not have to worry about money any more! Yeah, maybe not. It was a nice thought.

We went to the doc yesterday for her 2 year Well Child visit and he didn’t see any change in her ears at all and she still has a fever. She’s been hacking at night so I bring her down to sleep on the couch, propped up by pillows so she can breathe better. She must just feel horrible because she has not been without Gossageesie and Dora for a moment this whole week and a half that she has been sick. I think I might need to throw them in the washer again…she keeps coughing and sneezing and generally germing them up. I wonder how long germs can live on matted, well-traveled synthetic fibers? Huh.

The doc decided to change her antibiotic to Zithromax and put her on Albuterol for her cough. I don’t know why medications make me nervous but they do. It makes me more nervous to not have her on them, though, so we dropper cherry and strawberry goop into her mouth at the appointed times and hope that she will respond positively. The upside is that I didn’t have to get up with her at all last night except to give her a dose of the cough medicine because it was time to, not because she was coughing. That’s improvement right there. For the past week and a half, we’ve been getting up with her 3-4 times a night trying to ease her cough. “Rocking and shnuggling” is a frequent request when we get her up and has become one during the day when she gets upset, too. Which is often. Waaaaay more often than usual. I’m sure she just feels miserable and, once she feels better, will be back to her little self.

She’s never been this sick before. Or for this long. I hope it goes away soon. Duh, Mommy. Who wouldn’t?