Monday, December 8, 2008

Sick baby!

Poor Isabelle has had a cough for a couple days. I always go to the doctor for them to tell me it's a cold and they can't do anything about it. Well last night her fever was 101.4 so I gave her some motrin, the fever went away, came back in the middle of the night, and was pretty much gone in the morning. However I decided to take her to the doctor. I've never been without insurance so I didn't know where to take her without getting a huge bill. In case you're wondering we don't have insurance at the moment, Aisea got laid off. They didn't have any jobs right now except the one on the Big Island, and they weren't providing living expenses and flights home so we were going to spend a paycheck a month for him to work there. That wasn't worth it. Anyway he is working for a friend doing pools and waterfalls but they don't start insurance until 3 months. We(my friend and I) took her to a clinic across the island and her pulse oxygen was 94 and they like it to be 97. She had some wheezing, congestion, and her ear wasn't looking good. They gave her a steroid, amoxicillin, and albuterol. I also had to get a note that sped up the process to get Quest(govt. insurance). So for this month Isabelle has insurance but no one else does. We had to do the running around and waiting to get insurance coverage and her medicine. After all that we left the house around 9 and got back at almost four. She's still not great but doing better. And it took me three days to get this blog started and finished so this happened on monday. Alekisio's nose is gross too and I keep thinking all the recycled air is going to make them really sick. But Alekisio doesn't care about that he just wants snow! Oh and I know the picture isn't really relevant to the blog but I thought that face was great at explaining how she feels.

3 comments:

Susan said...

Poor baby...but I relate. I was given those same meds and steriods and the day after I finished I was sick again. So I have another set of meds...and this had better work!


Sorry about the layoff...Dawn's husband got the axe yesterday as well.

Missy said...

Poor baby and poor mommy. Hope health finds its way to your home soon. Maybe santa can bring it.
Guess it is time to start looking for work on the main land. Oh wait, now is not a good time for construction workers. I'll keep you in my prayers.

Jamie said...

Have you left already...dang, I totally forgot. Well, hope you have a great time! Email me your email address jamieludovico@hotmail.com