David is sick!

I had expected/planned to use this space to update David's progress as a baby, talk about all of his firsts, post pictures and videos of him doing awesome things, letting everyone know when he learns to crawl and walk and all those fun things.  I didn't really expect for the first "first" to be that David has his first (infectious) illness.

Christy has been feeling under the weather for a few days, and a couple days ago David started with a light cough, mostly at night.  We didn't really think much of it, but it persisted, and yesterday we just figured that it couldn't hurt to be cautious.  He already lives life with an 85% blood oxygen saturation (normal is 100%), all he needs is to get fluid filled lungs that would make that saturation drop.  So this morning, David went to the doctor for a non-checkup for the first time.

We told the doctor that Christy had been sick, David had developed a little cough, and we just wanted to be careful.  His first comment was that they weren't going to treat him prophylacticly - i.e., they weren't going to do anything preventative just because Christy was sick.  Apparently he's had this issue before with parents, which is kinda sad.  Anyway, he proceeds to look in his ears.  Lo and behold, he has the beginnings of an infection in his left ear!

Long story short, Paul and Christy are awesome parents who do, in fact, know when their child is getting sick, and furthermore are able to realize it before it turns into a full blown illness. *patsselfontheback.

So David now has 10 days worth of the infamous "pink stuff" (amoxycillin) that he has to take twice a day.  Also of note is that it didn't require a shot, which I'm sure would make David happy if he knew.

In truth, he's doing very well and I doubt he has any idea that anything is amiss.  He hasn't been fussy or anything, and even though he coughs a little bit at night it doesn't seem to be enough to wake him up or make him mad.  He likes the pink stuff (he's always been a really good medicine taker), so no problems on that front either.  Basically, he is the awesomest baby ever.  Even when he's sick.

In other (administrative) news, Christy and I have been taking pictures and videos like crazy, and they're all getting stuffed into the links on the sidebar.  It's kinda funny how digital media and cheap storage basically lets you take constant pictures of anything that you want.  When I was little, I felt like mom took unreasonable amounts of pictures of us.  I can't even imagine how bad it would have been if she'd had a camera in her phone and infinite film.