AM Giggles

So I woke up about 4:5am to the sound of C back in her room giggling. Hopefully it meant she had some weird dream, not that she's really in pain. She's had a rough last few weeks. Her mid-sepetember cold is still lingering. She coughs all the time and just can't seem to clear out her lungs. What's weird is that she is OK lying down (side, not back!) but as soon as she is upright she starts hacking away. All yesterday afternoon she coughed and threatened to vomit, then finally at about 7:40pm she threw up a huge amount. She was happy, but still trying to cough up stuff after that. She slept fine, though, until the laughing fit. Anyway, I noticed the residual in her stomach was yellow-ish, and she did not urinate all yesterday afternoon. Sunday was last day on the antibiotic so she should be getting better by now! HPEmom wants to get an appointment with GI doc and re-start our discussions about fundoplication. I agree we probably should do that, but just am not convinced the surgery is going to get at the route cause of things.

Not the Flu

C has had a low grade cold for about a week now. It began as her sicknesses usually do with fever and throwing up as soon as anything hits her stomach. This only lasted a day (last Friday into Saturday). Since then she's had a lot of congestion in her chest and throat, and she tends to spike a mild fever most afternoons. She coughs constantly, especially in the afternoon and night. Coughing brings up mucous and phlegm which she then has trouble swallowing, so she throws up. Lately the coughing at night and first thing in the AM can last for 20-30 minutes. The daily debate is: do we send her to school? Generally once she is up and has cleared out whatever she needs clear she is OK for the day. She started on antibiotics yesterday to treat for assumed respiratory infection. Am also concerned about urinary infection: As of this AM she hadn't peed since I got home at 6:00pm yesterday.