Today the doctor called to let us know that Allison does have whooping cough. She missed Friday and Monday from school and she tried to go back today but only lasted two periods before she was miserable. She went to the nurse and the nurse was a little freaked out when she said she had been tested for whooping cough. The nurse called me and talked with me about it and ask me to come get her. When I got to the school the nurse had more to tell me. Allison had finished her antibiotics so she was fine to go back to school but the nurse didn't feel the same way. I didn't appreciate being chewed out, the doctor gave us no instruction and I was just going off of what I knew. Apparently, I needed to notify the nurse so she could notify students at the school that are not immunized and also Central District Health needed to know. Let's just say that I left the school feeling like an awful parent when I shouldn't because I immunized my daughter.
The doctor told us today that she is going to be tired for a while and the cough is going to be around even longer. I guess whooping cough is also called the hundred day cough. I feel bad for her because basketball season just started and I don't know how much she is going to get to play. She missed a game today.
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