Cordelia-bird, down for the count

Cody took us up on our entreaties to do a better job of sharing with his sister, and graciously passed on his virus to Cordelia. Unfortunately it hit her much, much harder (which I would have thought hard to imagine). She's had diarrhea, fever, congestion, lots of vomit, which she has been sweet enough to reserve mostly for me, and of course, she can't blow her nose, or talk to us, so it's really been rough on her.

After about 36 hours of no sleep -- she couldn't stop coughing and crying or get comfortable -- we took her to the doctor, where they tested her for several things and determined she has RSV. It's a fairly common respiratory virus, but is extremely rough on babies. She's been absolutely miserable, and has had to undergo nebulizer treatments every 4 hours to help with wheezing, at the hands of Evil Mommy, whose job it is to hold her down and press a mask against her little face for 10 minutes while medicine poofs into her lungs. You can imagine how well that's going, and how much she enjoys it. This is on top of me coming at her every so often with the Nose Bulb of Doom, to which she reacts like I'm attacking her with an ice pick. She had to go back Saturday morning, and will go again tomorrow, so they can check her breathing and hydration (she doesn't really want to eat or drink). Anyway, she's pretty inconsolable unless she's in my arms (especially at night; she likes to sleep sitting straight up on me in her rocker, which seems to help the horrible congestion). I didn't think it was fair to post sick pics of Cody and not of her.

Obviously, she disagrees. Keep them in your prayers! Hopefully week 2 of February will go a little better.