Sick, Sick Sick!

It has not been pretty around here lately. Connor had his first sinus infection and his first round of Amoxicillin. After about 5 days his cough had gone away and his nose was better. For New Year's Eve we went to some friends' house and he woke up the next morning covered in puke. It didn't seem to bother him but he did puke 2 more times (also his first non- baby puking). He's had some NASTY diapers too. Then Mommy got the chills, fever and nausea and then Daddy woke up sick in the middle of the night. It pretty much sucked up the end of our break and stopped all projects around the house. Luckily it went away pretty quickly..Connor actually got it first and is having the most trouble kicking it. Evan seems to be ok...he's always blowing out his diapers so it's hard to tell what's normal and what's not with him.

Today we went to the specialist. You may remember that we had to go see someone when Connor was about 4 months old to evaluate a hydrocele (hole where the testicles descended that didn't close before birth.) They said it should heal on it's own and be ok. By 1 it had sealed and they said no worries, but things never looked quite right to me. When Evan was born we were really able to see what "things" should look like and that's when we realized there was a problem for Connor. We went to see a different specialist today..in hindsight, the one we should have seen the first time because he would have done the ultrasound initially to detect this problem. Anyway, Connor has an undescended testicle that needs to be surgically repaired. The surgery is scheduled for Feb. 18th. It is on an outpatient basis and takes about an hour. He should be up and running in a few days and will hopefully have no long term problems from it. Poor little guy is having a rough start to the new year but hopefully he gets it all over with now and the rest of the year will be clear sailing for him!