I have been behind again on my blogging but this time I think I actually have a pretty good excuse. We have been sick in this house for going on 4 weeks and I have to document this because this is strangely the first time this has ever happened to us! Cooper had RSV when he was 7 months old and other than that and the occasional allergies, he has never been sick. Kyleigh has only had the occasional allergies in her 2 short years. It all started with a stomach bug that Daniel and I had a few weeks ago. We didn't realize it at the time but that would start our 4 weeks of torture.
After the stomach bug, Kyleigh developed bronchitis the following week and then a bout with the same stomach issues we had. The following week Cooper came down with the stomach bug on Wednesday and ended that week with a bout of croup that caused his very first ER visit. Luckily it was just croup and they were able to give him a breathing treatment and send them on their way. That visit was on a Saturday night and so needless to say we were exhausted on Sunday but Daniel had volunteered us to take the place of some friends' of ours' table in the college class at church so I forged on and went to Sunday School and came home after. That night I began to feel a little yucky myself but I assumed it was probably just exhaustion. Nope, by Tuesday evening I felt awful. Not only did I feel awful but Kyleigh wasn't sounding too great either. I took her in to the doctor and they told me she had bronchitis! I couldn't believe it. Since I wasn't feeling well and Daniel was leaving town the next day I decided I should go ahead and go to urgent care. They gave me a steroid shot and sent me on my way. I started to feel better the next day but then it just came back overwhelmingly worse over the weekend. I planned to take Cooper to the Mom/Son Speedway Spectacular on Friday night and somehow I managed to make it through so that he could have a great time, and that he did (see future post)!
That now brings us to this past week. Kyleigh has still been battling a cough that after 10 days of an antibiotic should have been gone and having a strange fever on and off. I too still felt terrible and decided I would have to go see my regular physician so I got an appointment for her in the morning and one for myself in the afternoon. I took Kyleigh in that morning after taking her to Mother's Day Out and then having to pick her up because she was running fever. By the time I got her into the doctor's office her temp was 102.8. Poor thing had two ear infections and then they told me they wanted her to get a chest x-ray since she had just had bronchitis. After doing the chest x-ray they determined she had developed pneumonia. I felt so bad for her because she is such a happy spunky little girl who was now just wanting to be held and cuddled. They gave her another stronger antibiotic and sent us on our way.
That afternoon I went to the doctor and my allergy/cough mess had now developed into bronchitis. Could things possibly get any worse? It's amazing to me how things just keep going through each member of your family and I've never understood it until now. I can report now as of Thursday that we are ALL on the up and up and feeling much better! My plan this weekend is to get everyone out of the house for a few hours and scrub this plan down top to bottom so that hopefully whatever lingering germs might still be in the air can be eliminated!!!!
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