Are You Kidding Me?

It is absolutely never ending. I spent a good portion of desperatley needed, in order to function, beauty sleep last night rescuing Olivia from her snot filled mattress. I have NEVER seen so much snot come out of that little of a nose in my life. After getting up at 9:45 (yes, I was already in bed and had been asleep 45 minutes) and spending a good 10 minutes cleaning her face up and suctioning her out, then spending another 10 minutes listening to her scream and cry, I was ready to be done with snot for the rest of my life. However, Olivia had a different idea and we went through the entire routine at 4:00 a.m. as well, then at 6:30 a.m. During our clean up sessions I noticed that Olivia's eye looked a littel icky, but just thought she had smeared snot into it. However, by 7:30 this morning I knew it was something more. The other thing that tipped me off that things weren't right was the widely spreading rash that had worked its way up her torso. Oh, and the ten tons of snot I had already waded through. So, of course we went to the doctor.

By the time we got to the doctor at 9:50, Olivia's nose was a faucet and her poor eye was a goopy mess. So what was it you ask? Well, a virus caused the rash and snotty nose. But, the virus turned into an infection in her eye and she has pink eye. Luckily, the infection had not yet reached her ears. However, have I ever mentioned that I get pink eye at the drop of a hat? Great. By the time we got home, her eye was practically swollen and gooped shut (see photos below). And her nose, holy toledo! That thing is running like you wouldn't believe. At one point I looked over and saw a huge string of snot plunging out of her nose. Mmm, pleasant. Of course we have eye drops, which are virtually impossible to get into Olivia's eye. She squeezes that baby shut as tight as she can and screams. She is also a little smelly. The doctor said it is because of all of the white blood cells her body is producing to fight off the sickness. Great, I have a snotty, goopy, stinky child.

With all of the crappy news there is one bit of happy information. As we were leaving the doctors office, Olivia waved to the receptionist (I know she waves at everyone) and said "bye bye"! She then began waving at random people and telling them "bye bye". Ahh, I love it!