Sick Puppy!

Kellan had tubes placed in his ears bright and early Monday morning. He's had several ear infections over the past year and this is the next step, so we went forward with it. He was a real trooper. We woke him at 530am, changed his diaper and put him in the car for our 615am arrival time at the Outpatient Surgery Center. Usually his first request when getting up is "mik" (milk), but he didn't seem to mind too much that we couldn't fulfill this request. We brought lots of distractions since we knew we'd have about an hour and a half wait time for the actual procedure (books, animals, blankies, etc). We were both dying for our own "milk", aka coffee, but knew we couldn't do that in front of Kellan. Not one tear or complaint from our little sweetie until he woke up from the anesthesia. I think at this point he was just more mad that we woke him up a second time. They gave him this cute little doggy, Pippit, beforehand and he is now a favorite. Kellan is very much into stuffed animals these days. We need to take a picture of his crib, because on any given night, there are at least a dozen animals sleeping with him. So we were done and back home on the couch by 9am. Played for a bit and down he went for a 4 hour nap.

Kellan talking with Daddy at work later that day letting him know he is okay and feeling good.

Our good feelings didn't last long when Tuesday morning he woke at 6am with a 103+ fever. Doctor called, Motrin given and the snuggling began with our sick puppy. His fevers have continued the last couple days and after 2 trips to the doctor and to the xray, we now have a small case of pneumonia. I think this is all coincidental with the ear tubes b/c he has had a cold and dry cough for the past week. They decided to go ahead, not thinking he was in danger. Maybe not the best decision, but I think it was inevitable. So we are now on antibiotics and feeling lousy! Poor Daddy, wants to help, but Kellan will have little to do with him when feeling bad. We have had lots of snuggling time and I just remind myself that I someday won't be able to do this when he is too big! It breaks my heart though to see him feel so icky! Tomorrow's a new day...