High Fevers and Sad Days

Well surgery may have to be postponed. Caitlin came down with a ridiculously high fever one week ago today, only hours before our flight to Ohio was scheduled to depart. We flew out anyway because we needed to be with family as we all struggled with the loss of my young cousin. While it was wonderful to see the rest of the cousins and aunts and uncles I wish we could have met under all around better circumstances. This was the first time most of my family met Caitlin and she was pretty much as antisocial as is possible, due largely in part to the fact the she has the flu. In fact last Saturday she didn't really wake up at all, trapping both of us in the hotel room until nearly 8pm... When she finally did wake up-at 7:30pm! she looked around the room and said, "is it morning yet?" Well actually cutie pie morning has come and gone. Caitlin fell in love with my beautiful girl cousins and looked at my cousin Adam and decided his gender was going to be held against him so he was only worthy of a wave. Hopefully the next time we see each other Caitlin will be more responsive to the entire family, regardless of gender. After returning home we were back in to visit her pediatrician because her fever still wasn't broken by Monday afternoon. In fact it didn't break until yesterday. We're holding out hope that all residual symptoms will disappear by tomorrow at the latest because if they don't we're going to have to reschedule the surgery. At this point she has a little bit of a stuffy nose and an occasional cough-when un-medicated- so lets all cross our fingers that she gets completely better by the end of the day! I don't really have other news right now because for the past week my life has been unpleasant. First with a memorial service that we shouldn't have had to have and then with the sequestering of a super sick kiddo. I was actually very relieved to go to work on Tuesday and then again today (Ryan and I are taking turns with the staying home part) simply because whiny 5 year old gets obnoxious after a week and I took more than my fair share of sick kid duty while we were back East. I hope that life is bringing happy memories to the rest of you !