Skip to main content

Mycoplasma Pneumonia Take 2

shortly after Mimi came back from the hospital, Ozzy gets a headache and a fever.  Friday July 3, afternoon, as we were driving to gymnastics, he says his head really hurts.  He says he can still do gymnastics.  later that night, 11pm in bed, he feels warm. Temp 101.4

12pm wakes crying. Says everything hurts. 2tsp Motrin. Temp 100.7. Feels chills.

Saturday 7/4- wait to see if this is the same thing Mimi had or just a run of the mill cold. 
am temp 100.7 ; 12:40pm motrin temp 101.8; 7pm tylenol 103.0; 11pm Motrin 101

Sunday 7/5- going on three days of fever, figure this is the same thing, schedule a sick appt for Monday 11am Tylenol 101.1; 4pm 102.7 motrin; 7pm 101.9  tylenol; 10:15pm Motrin 102

Monday 7/6 - ped checks him out and says he seems fine.  CBC, strep all come up normal/neg.  but decide to make sure with Xray.  run to get xrays down the street, and they find pneumonia in lower left lung and it all reminds me of the same thing Mimi went thru.  back to the ped, Dr Ohara decides to call the Infectious Disease Specialitst that treated Mimi at the hospital and they decide to put him on doxycycline (even tho he's not quite 7 yet, and there's warnings about using in children under the age of 8, affecting growth plates and permanent damage to teeth).  our insurance wouldnt cover the doxycyline (no idea why!  so it took most of the day to finally get a pharmacy that would allow me to buy it so i had to wait until evening before giving him his first dose.)

4:30am Tylenol 103.2; 10:30am Motrin 103.1; 3:15 Tylenol 102.5

6:30pm amoxicillin/doxy 101.2 DAY 1*sore throat; slight hives on each leg

7:20pm 101.3 and headache Motrin

Tuesday 7/7
3:00am Tylenol 102.3
9:30am amox/doxy
4:10pm motrin 102.8
9:00pm doxy Day 2
10:00pm amox temp 101

Wednesday 7/8
9am doxy
10am amox  temp 98

8:15pm doxy 99.6  Day 3
10pm amox
* More hives today

Thursday 7/9
8am doxy
9:30 am amox

7:00p doxy Day 4
9:45p amox
* more hives today

Friday 7/10
8am doxy 98.5 *says he feels like he has to throw up
11 amox
Day 5  doxy 8pm face swelling, lip swelling, pale face/eye swelling/hives/coughing/felt need to throw up/extreme lethargy…no wheezing, but kept saying he felt like there was something in his throat. 
9pm Zyrtec and rush to the ER.
10pm deccadron

Saturday 7/11

Day 6 11:00am azithro
Follow up with Dr. OHara 11:30 99.2 temp

Sunday 7/12

Day 7 11:30 azithro 99.4
Head feels heavy; Dizziness; changes in hearing;

After nap vivid dream/disoriented when waking, speaks out of context (similar to fevered sleep earlier in week before doxy/amox lowered fever)

9pm while getting washed for bed comes to me distraught and crying saying a voice in his head said kill mommy. Took me awhile to calm him down. It really scared him.


Monday 7/13

last night had vivid, disturbing dreams (exploding building, daddy throwing them thru a glass window)

Day 8  12:00 azithro (4.5 ml…accidentally lost a little when it spilled)
headaches
temp 99.4

9pm 99.6

Tuesday 7/14
am- congestion, sneezing, runny nose  99.5
Day 9 2.5 ml- azithro…(only had 200 mg concentration at riteaid)

dinner: loss of appetite;

Wed 7/15  went to see Dr Keim (Infectious Disease).  says to finish the azithromycin and see how he fares.  he's continues to hold temps in the 99's

-----
july 24th:  for several days now he has been saying he keeps feeling like he wants to throw up.  maybe need to follow up with ped about this. he still holding temps in the 99s.  i am too so maybe it's just some run on the mill virus?
-----
 must have either been vestiges of the pneumonia or another virus, but after a few days his symptoms resolved.  

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Rainbow Magic Birthday (Mimi's 7th Birthday)

this year was a particularly difficult year to plan mimi's birthday.  after rob's dad became terminally ill, i didnt think it was good time for a party for mimi and her friends, so we decided it was best to skip a party this year and just have a quiet family dinner out.  then after dad passed and we slowly started to get back into our routines again, we all began to feel bad about not having a party for mimi, so we decided to have a party after all...although, a much belated party. mimi said she really wanted to have a party here at the house.  she really really really wanted it here, so i told her she could, if she kept it small.  since she was turning seven, i allowed her to invite seven friends. then i tasked her with thinking up a theme, and she finally settled on a favorite book series of hers called Rainbow Magic .  how perfect...each of the book sets in the series showcases 7 fairies, whether they be the rainbow fairies, the gem fairies, the party fai...

Gardening My Albatross

 sometimes when i think about giving up on life in general, and sitting like a blob all day, unbidden my mind fills up with images of a neglected garden turning brown, rotting, dying, and thats often enough motivation to keep going, if for no other reason than to prevent the desolation from becoming reality.  is it weird that when i think of dying one day, that i get sad knowing my garden will die when i am gone?  i dont think anyone else would go tend to it when i am no longer around.  i hope they will at least keep a plant or two in remembrance of me, but the little pollinator waystation i've been working for several years now to create will likely be razed and no more.

Growing Things

 it's crazy how long it's been since the last time i blogged here.  i spend so much time on insta and facebook, this blog has been largely ignored.  i'm on my second year of gardening and have been trying to maintaining a physical gardening log and failed at several attempts.  So i think this may be my best bet.  So here's the first gardening entry! Today is March 29th, 2022. Temps today were unseasonably cold and have been for the past three days.  Todays high temp was 47F and the low tonight will be 22F.  But should warm to the low 70s tomorrow.    This crazy cold and heavy winds yesterday blew down several daffodils.  many are leaning but upright enough that i left them and only pruned the ones that were knocked to the ground.