On the mend

Our sweet girl had a tummy bug on Thursday that kept her home from school.

Thursday night Ainsley started coughing and was running a temp...

Friday I kept Ainsley home due to her temp--which at this time was a low grade temp.

She felt run down but still managed a smile!

I took her to the dr Friday morning because she sounded weasy to me.  The doctors confirmed she had some weasing in her lungs.  They shared that Ainsley's lungs are more sensitive...so we got a new inhaler and were on our way. 

Ainsley felt great after her breathing treatment!

We were at the doctor on Friday for 2.5 hours!  They were so busy with flu and other cases that in between doing a breathing treatment and then needing to have her vitals checked 20 minutes later I had to get creative to keep Ainsley entertained!

Friday night Ainsley started to get much worse.  She barely got any sleep--she was coughing and SO hot.  We decided to call the doctor again on Saturday morning and they had an opening at 10:45 am!  By the time we got to the doctor her temp was 103.5 and her respirations were close to 1 per second.  The doctors were wonderful--they gave her medicine to get her temp down and said that her pulse ox, and breathing should improve when her temp got to a better level.  They sent us right down to get a chest x-ray.  

Waiting for the x-ray.

In the x-ray room.  Ryan and I both were helping to get Ainsley into position for the x-ray.  When I looked in the booth to see if we were doing things right, Ainsley's doctor was there.  I teared up--he had come down to the x-ray room to get the results first hand.  The x-ray helped him to pin point where to listen to her breathing.  He said he the results led him to believe she had the beginnings of pneumonia.  So he ordered an antibiotic.  We got the prescription filled in the hospital pharmacy.  The doctor stopped by the pharmacy on the way out to make sure that we had everything we needed.  I almost teared up again.  He was SO kind and took such good care of our little miss.  He actually called today to check on how Ainsley was doing.  

Ainsley ran a high temp most of Saturday, but we could tell she was beginning to get back to herself late Saturday.  It could have been the cake pop...or the antibiotic!

Ainsley was playing with her dollies from Grammie Linda Saturday night.  She was feeding them!

Sunday Ryan and I celebrated 12 years of marriage!  Ainsley made a card for Ryan to celebrate.  Ryan and I decided to cancel our babysitter for Sunday evening so we could be with our sweet girl.  The past 12 years have been a great journey and I'm looking to many more years!  Ryan is such a kind hearted and encouraging husband and wonderful dad to Ainsley.  He said "good job" several times this weekend when we were caring for Ainsley which is exactly what this tired mamma needed!

Our sweet girl is feeling better!  Today we had two doctors appointments--when it rains it pours with doctors apts and Ainsley and we are in a rainy season!

I took Ainsley to her ENT doctor at 1 pm today.  This was right in the middle of her nap.  Ainsley was fast asleep until her had to check her ears!  He confirmed her right ear tub had shifted so she is scheduled for surgery on January 29.

He wanted to get a hearing test too--so we waited to meet with the audiologist.  The audiologist that we met with was the director who we have worked with several times before.  Ainsley did fairly well in the sound booth, but she was only able to get a partial read so the doctor, the director of audiology all agreed to to a sedated hearing test on the day of her tube surgery since she will already be sedated.  This was the same test that we did almost a year ago that showed a profound loss--but the doctor reassured me today that was a fluke so he is hopeful that we will get a good read to determine if Ainsley's left ear needs a hearing aid too.

This girl melts my heart.  She was SO good today.  She takes all of this in stride.  The nurse made her a doll out of a tongue depressor and Ainsley loved it!

Ryan and I switched for her last appointment of the day.  Ainsley got fitted for new inserts for her feet.  Ryan said the person that fitted her today was wonderful!  She recommended specific tennis shoes for Ainsley and ordered a more supportive insert that will have Ainsley running all over soon!