Take Two of These and Call Me in the Morning

This blog entry was supposed to be about our trip to the very beautiful Seoul Lantern Festival, but alas--Achoo!

A cold? Never heard of it.

Poor Natey Wi, the little man got his first cold.  Kyle recently caught a cold, passed it to me, and like a good germ spreader, I gave it right to Nathan. 

Wednesday was full of sneezes. No problem. Thursday his afternoon nap lasted less than an hour instead of the usual three.

Reading up on some of my favorite peeps in between sneezes

Thursday night, I put him to bed with a very stuffy nose. Poor kid had no idea what was going on. He would fall asleep and, as far as we could tell, kind of scare himself awake because he couldn't breathe. Then he would cry. And cry. Kyle said, "I think it's going to be a long night."

At 10PM, I called my sister-in-law Laura (a pediatric nurse) to double check the dosage of infant tylenol and then stopped by my good friend Katja's for some all natural remedies to help us get him some relief. It was, as Kyle predicted, a very long night.  For the first time since I don't remember when, we saw every hour of the night--a very severe departure from our norm (we are very lucky, as I can count only a handful of times--during the first months--that he has woken up during the night). At 4AM, we cancelled our Fridays and decided to head to the doctor to ensure he didn't have an ear infection.

Headed to Dr. Yoo 

Friday morning we saw Dr. Yoo.  Nathan has an upper respiratory infection with high fluid levels in his not-yet-infected ears. We filled our prescriptions and headed home. Naptime was very good (for all of us) and Nathan was back to his old self last night. It's Saturday evening here, still no fever and we have our fingers crossed for another good sleep.

:)sbc