Poor Sick Kids!!!

What a month this has been!!!! It all started Tuesday 10/3. Shelby came home with 103+ fever. She looked awful. With it came headaches, a sore throat, and an upset tummy. Fortunately, she never threw up, but it took 2 1/2 days for the fever to go away. We had the weekend free of illness . . . yeah!

Then on Monday 10/9 Taylor came down after going to bed complaining of a headache. I knew immediately that she'd gotten what Shelby had gotten. Unfortunately, Taylor's little body has a much harder time with fevers and getting over illnesses. She was sick for 3 1/2 days with fevers from 103 to 105. It was awful. She was on medicine round the clock, but even then it wasn't enough. She'd have Ibuprofen, 3 hours later she'd have Tylenol, and 2 hours later her fever would start going up, and she'd have to sit in the bath for an hour until we could give her more Ibuprofen. Fortunately during the days the medicine would last okay, but the late afternoon to midnight was always a hard time for her. Meanwhile, the entire time Taylor was sick, Payden had gotten a cold. At nights I'd end up bouncing back and forth between the 2. We went to the doctor to confirm that everything was okay, and she said Taylor just had a stomach virus and that we had to let it run its course. Payden got checked out too. She just had a cold, but we did get some nice prescriped medicine for her congestion, runny nose, and cough.

Finally on Friday Taylor's fever broke, but then her nose started running. Payden started to get a fever at that point too. I figured they'd just flip-flopped illnesses. Taylor had congestion, runny nose, a REALLY sore throat, and a cough. Payden's cough was getting a little worse and continued her congestion and runny nose. The nights got worse and worse, so on Monday 10/16 I took them to the doctor. They both had ear infections and bronchiolitis. I was just glad there was an answer. Hooray!!! We left the doctor with antibiotics, medicine for the bronchiolitis, and breathing treatment medication. That night they were LOADED with meds. Of course things didn't drastically improve, but little by little the girls got better and the nights got better.

Then Shelby started getting a stuffy nose. It wasn't too bad and usually she doesn't get that sick with respiratory illnesses, so I wasn't too worried. Well on Sunday 10/21 she woke up and felt miserable. Stuffy nose, cough, sore throat . . . the same sickness Taylor had. Shelby was also fatigued, too, and ended up taking many naps over the next few days. By Sunday evening she was complaining about her ear. We went to the doctor Monday morning and she had an ear infection. We left with an antibiotic and more cold medication. Unfortunately she was in TONS of pain and Ibuprofen and Tylenol only lasted for 2 hours, so she'd be in pain for an hour until we could give her more meds. We got some ear drops, which helped, and a warm compress, but she was in tears a lot. Poor thing. Finally by the next morning the antibiotics had started to kick in. The pain was almost gone, but she still had headaches and a little fever.

We're now halfway through Wednesday and at this point I think my kids are finally better. Yeah!!!!!! Hopefully we'll be well for a while. I'm definitely grateful for the strength to get through it and for all the meds!!!



This is after a few days. That's just way too many medicine syringes and cups!!



Shelby snuck this picture of us, but it certainly shows how we felt each morning. Fortunately it was Saturday morning, so the kids watched TV while we got some more sleep.



This is Payden's second breathing treatment. The first one she threw a HUGE fit and ended up having being pinned for the last half of the treatment.



This time she decided she'd be good and sit through me reading a book to her. She still put up a bit of a fight at the end, but at least didn't have to be pinned.