It all began almost 2 weeks ago when Madeleine got in the car after school and said she was COLD. She's my child that is NEVER cold. Not unless she's sick. UH-OH was my first thought. Then she said she was too tired to go to soccer that night and could she just go home and take a nap. UH-OH. She must be feeling REALLY bad.
We head home where she heads straight to the couch and proceeds to sleep for 4 hours. Meanwhile I check her backpack and see a note from the teacher saying that HALF of her class was either at home with or sent home with a high fever. Oh boy.....she wakes up with fever over 103 degrees. We give her some motrin and off to (my) bed she goes. The next morning she's still feeling bad but just fever so I'm hoping it's just a 24 hour bug.
By Saturday she still has fever and now has a cough/sore throat. Monday we head to the dr. since she's still not better. She ends up with a bad bad bad ear infection, upper respitory infection and fever virus. In retrospect I wish I'd insisted on a flu test since it took her the rest of the week to get better and she ended the week throwing up. Fun times. My poor girl ran high fever for a week and missed an entire week of kindergarden. :( This is the sickest she's EVER been. EVER. I could probably count on one hand the number of times she's been sick and never for more than 24 hours (now Harrison's another story....). Poor girl lost some major weight this week since the only thing I could get down her was milk and juice. She actually went 2 1/2 days without eating a bit of solid food.
And right now my high kitchen shelf looks like this:
But, thankfully she's on the mend and headed back to school tomorrow. (after sleeping 14 hours last night). And even more thankfully, Harrison's managed so far to stay healthy.....he's just had a tough time without his best playmate this past week.I think we're done with being sick for the ENTIRE YEAR. Now we can get back to having some fun!
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we're taking turns in our family. Brian has had allergies/possible sinus infection for two and a half weeks now. Jamison has had a runny nose for 8 days. Lily woke up this morning with a 60 year old smokers cough. And my contacts are starting to feel funny which is always an indicator that I'm starting to get sick.
good thing we all got the flu shot so we don't have to worry about that! nice to hear that you Madeleine is better!
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