Better and worse

Maria is both better and worse today. Her vomitting stopped but she's continued to have an intermittent fever and developed a nasty cough. I noticed it was a little barky this morning and was wondering about croup. We took her to the pediatrician and he was leaning toward croup as well until he listened to her lungs. Croup occurs in the throat (in adults it manifests as laryngitis). He could hear "junkiness" in her lungs so decided it is more likely a minor case of pneumonia despite the slight barking sound. So she starts on a course of antibiotics and we hope she will be better soon.

One of the problems with how often she's been sick, other than just the "being sick" part, is that all of her therapies come to a halt. Her therapy appointments get cancelled and, I don't know about the nanny, but I don't put her in the stander or the crawler or do a lot of the other things. An occasional break from that kind of thing is good (she made good progress after the break during her first cold in December), but she's been missing so much lately. As far behind as she is in development (not that it matters, we love her anyhow, we're not comparing her to other babies, blah blah blah), it's frustrating for things to get delayed again.

In other news, Maria's nanny just found out her husband has cancer, apparently quite severe. It's too early to know how it's going to go, but we're hoping for the best. Now I know that this news is much worse for them than it is for us, but the selfish bastard side of me immediately wondered how the situation is going to affect Maria's care. After all, the entire world revolves around Maria. She's been so great (the nanny, that is, not Maria...um, not that Maria's not great...oh, you know what I mean). Cathy was very lucky to have found her so we're hoping things turn out well for everyone involved.