As Tucker quickly approaches his third birthday (and Mommy begins to feel older and older), I can't help but think about how many times this poor child has been sick... seriously... betweeen strep throat, ear infections, colds and now, SALMONELLA (yes, the "bad" kind of bacteria), I feel like the little guy has been sick more days than he's been well. And as promised, I'm documenting life; even the bad parts.
At the end of June we spent a week with Corey's parents, brother/SIL/nephew and Tucker began complaining of a tummy ache. I chalked up the small stent of the "runnies" to teething as his last molars FINALLY came in. Fast forward about a week later. On Friday evening, I left for my girls weekend (see previous post), and of course, Tucker starts running a fever. I get home Sunday evening, fever spikes and the kid is sick. And I'm not talking about cranky, "hold me Mommy", here's some tylenol and go to bed sick... I'm talking SICK. Period. Bloody stools and all. We rush to the Dr on Monday AM.... tons of tests, 48 hours later, NOTHING. Diagnosis: stomach virus or bacterial infection of unknown origin. (geez...) We head to the Braves game on Wednesday night (see next post) and Tucker begins running a fever again, about 103 now, and TONS of blood in the diapers.. after a quick text to the pedi, we are on our way to Egleston. After a bag of fluids, lots of stool cultures and tylenol, we are sent home with the same diagnosis.
Symptoms disappear after about another 3 days just to get a phone call the next Tuesday from Egleston: "Mrs. Consuegra, your son has salmonella. Please make sure to cook your chicken and eggs throoughly; you wouldn't want this to happen again."
Yep, pretty much I've earned worst mom in America award for that one. Still not convinced that it was my fault, but hey, he survived and we are all better for it! I never knew there were so many poop tests !!
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