The next few months will be a bit of a whirlwind of activities, though I'm not sure it ever really isn't. After the excitement of the walk, we went to the Roseville speedway to watch Uncle Pat race around the track. It was incredibly hot, but Faith was ecstatic to see that he won a trophy! We were sure to pump her with fluids, fan her and even get an ice cream treat, but her little face was covered in the salt of a sweaty CFer as you can see from the picture. One of the obvious symptoms of a person with cystic fibrosis is salty skin, you can lick their forehead (ya, why not?) and it's immediately obvious.
Later that week she got to ride in a huge stretch limo for her good friend Olivia's birthday.
By Friday afternoon, of course it's on a Friday afternoon, Faith was holding her ear and crying about it hurting. She only rarely cries about pain so I figured it was serious and called her pediatrician. I pulled the CF card b/c he's told us before if it's important that she see him he'd make time and he did! We hurried over and he confirmed that she actually had a DOUBLE ear infection, poor baby girl. She literally finished the previous antibiotics exactly one week ago. There's always fear in my mind when she's put on another antibiotic b/c I don't want the 'bad bugs' to become accustomed to them, thereby allowing the bugs to become strong enough that antibiotics won't work. At this point though, what's important is that she's healthy and out of pain. A prescription for 10 days of Augmentin and an ear drop pain reliever and she was feeling better by the next day which was Stephanie's good friend Catheline's wedding shower for which Faith is the FLOWER GIRL! By the end of the party, she'd decided to take a nap on the couch for a needed rest.
Mother's day was the following day and after church I was treated to a pedicure with the family girls, then we walked around the Fountains. At school, Faith had made an adorable flower arrangement out of a plastic bottle, sand and paper flowers...it sits in my closet so I see it every day :)
