My little hot potato

This is just a cute picture of you reading some mail. September is proving to be a rough month for the Schneider household. My sweet little Lukers is sick again and this time he is a toasty little guy. Your temperature reached a new high of 104.5, 40 minutes after you had Tylenol. I don't even want to know what it was before! Up until Monday evening nothing really seemed to be bothering you. That is until the massive amounts of drool started pouring out of you! Then I started to think maybe you had a bit of a sore throat. We went to the pediatrician to confirm and Mommy was right. Maybe I should go to medical school :) The doctor said you had a very red throat and that it was most likely a virus. You were tested for strep which you didn't very much like and that came back negative. So along with those results and the nice new rash you are getting Mommy and the Doctor agree on a virus. Fingers crossed you are at the tail end of it.

Speaking of the tail end of things our beloved pug Macy is under the weather as well. A trip to the vet Monday revealed an infection in or around his left anal gland. The doctors first gave very bad news of a tumor and 3-12 months to live but shortly (if you can call two straight hours of sobbing shortly) they changed their minds and it was now an abscess. Macy was placed on antibiotics and anti inflammatory medications. The abscess was drained as best it could be and we were sent home with instructions to clean it twice a day by flushing it out. All my nursing skills are being put to the test this week. I think I'd much rather have to deliver a baby at Target! So between giving Luke Tylenol and Motrin every four hours I am applying warm packs to a pugs bottom and flushing out, what I hope every minute, is just an abscess and not a cancerous tumor. Being a mother is proving to be harder and harder each minute.

On a lighter note Luke you are walking like a champ. Still choosing to crawl when you need to get somewhere quickly but each day you make it look easier and easier! We are still in the progress of getting the video up...things have been a little more like an Urgent Care than a home!