Reeves Latest

Let's just recap the sicknesses which have befallen Reeves in the last month or so.
1) We have had an ear infection, which was treated with the yummy pink bubble gum antibiotic. Unfortunately, Reeves didn't find it so yummy. Could this possibly be an indication that he will not like sweets in the future? One can only hope.
2) Turns out that one side effect of an antibiotic, in some children, is that it can cause thrush. You guessed it - Reeves got thrush. This is treated with a sweet yellow syrup, administered through a dropper. Our luck changed on this med, and he actually liked it. Of course, it could be because he only had to take 1 ml instead of 12ml! Either way, as nasty as thrush is, this bout cleared up very quickly, and the poor little man only had to deal with it for about a day.
3) And finally, for now, we have now learned that, sometimes, when a child is getting over being sick, a rash can occur. This is basically the poisons moving out of the body. Guess what, Reeves woke up yesterday with a red, bumpy rash all over his torso. We took him to the doctor. Just to be sure, and by incidental default to freak us out, she tested him for strep. So that you may know what we were fearing while we waited for the test results - if the strep had been positive, along with the rash, and the day before, a fever, Reeves would have had Scarlet Fever! Are you kidding!! What year is this - 1749? But it was at this point that we got lucky. The strep was negative. This is just his body getting better, and I'm glad to report that this morning, Reeves is fine. Very little rash is left. He woke up happy - which made us very happy.

Two things - As a mother, I should really pay more attention to the names of the medicine I am administering to my child. What kind of a mother refers to the medicine as yummy pink bubble gum and sweet yellow syrup? I have got to get better about that!! And more importantly, even though dealing with all this is a bit of a pain, how lucky are we that these are the only problems he has? Other than the pyloric stenosis, we have not had to rush to the hospital, there have been no major illnesses, and everything has been easily treatable. Also, on a positive note resulting from our visit to the doctor yesterday, we now know that Reeves weighs 15 lbs, 9 oz. There is always a silver lining!!