We just got back from Finley's 15 month old pediatrician visit.  Right about now I am pretty darn grateful that Finley still can't have live vaccines - that would have meant that she would have been due for 6 shots - which would have meant that we'd be taking a separate trip to the doctor - I wouldn't subject her to that.  She had a good check up - and in spite of her chubbiness is hanging right around the 50th percentile for height, weight and head circumference.  Today she needed to get her tetanus booster - which was needed so we can have her immunology work up re-done to assess if she is making t-cells and antibodies to the booster.  Then she also had to get her flu shot and her RSV vaccine which would up being in two doses because of the amount of vaccine that had to be given.  That meant two shots in each leg.  Needless to say my little princess is snoozing already.  That fifth shot?  It belonged to Nate and boy oh boy you should have seen him when he found out her was getting a shot too.  He was crying so hard for like 20 minutes before he even got the shot and was saying, "getting a shot makes me want to cry my eyes out!".  He ended up crying more than Finley.  Clearly he's already brushing up on his "guy skills" of milking these types of situations for all the sympathy he can get.  Of course I gave it to him because he was just breaking my heart!  One Happy Meal later and that flu shot is but a distant memory.  That is...until he remembers later that he got it and he limps around for the rest of the night!

Its been a bit of a frustrating week in the Roth household.  I am just so tired of seeing Finley seemingly start to get well and then all of a sudden regress.  She seemed to be getting over her cold nicely over the weekend and all day Monday.  Tuesday rolls around and she is coughing like crazy and throwing up.  So was the vomiting a result of the coughing?  I think we finally figured out that she likely had the stomach virus that Nate had 4 days earlier (the Friday before Mike got home from Australia - Nate was up from 9:30 pm to 5 am vomiting - pretty much non-stop.  No fever or anything else.  Just vomit.  Just like that thing they keep talking about on the news!)  Once we changed her to an apple juice/Pedialyte mixture through her g-tube - she was fine.  Then once I restarted the Pediasure, oddly enough, he coughing resumed and she seemed to be really mucousy again.  So that got us thinking maybe the Pediasure was making her junky and after she coughed so hard overnight she vomited again - I changed her to straight apple juice to test that theory - and the coughing has been virtually non-existent all day.  So its frustrating.  It feels like there are so many balls in the air - that there could be so many factors coming in to play and that there could very feasibly be SO many things going on.  I just want her to be healthy for a good stretch of time.  No suctioning.  Nothing.  I know that might be an exercise in futility, but I want to figure this out.  And its frustratingly hard when you have so many doctors - its hard to know which one she should see first.  And there are other things too.  Other frustrating factors that I am trying to figure out.  Its just been one of "those" weeks.  I am trying to keep a good perspective.  I read this quote on another blog today and its a very good representation of how I try to manage all of this stuff.  And a good reminder that its just been a bad week and that I need to move on.