Sick again

So here is how it started on Wed night......

Emma chose to get up on the chair at around 7 and there she stayed laying down and under a blanket until bedtime at 8. Very unusual for her because she starts going at 6:30am and doesn't quit until 8pm (except for naptimes).

She started running a fever on Thurs and started the coughing on Friday. Now I don't know how many of you have paid any attention to the "troubles" with any over the counter medicine for children under 6 but it basically boils down to the fact that none of the companies chose to run any kind of studies for that age group and instead pulled all those products from the store shelves and left those of us with kids under 6 out in the cold! (no pun intended there!)

I took her to the Dr. on Sat (thank God for extended office hours) and found she has croup. Fun stuff! Eli used to get croup on a regular basis...and even went to the ER once for a breathing treatment...and he had a standing prescription for Prednisone at the pharmacy. The boy couldn't sleep under a window or sleep directly on the floor without waking up with a bark. I did just learn that the same virus that causes croup in little ones is the the one that causes laryngitis in big kids and adults!

Anyways, she probably had her worst day yesterday because she was feeling extra poopy...congestion setting in and eyes starting to goop up. She spent most of the weekend sleeping off and on all day long. And when she wasn't sleeping, she was insisting I hold her. She seems to be a bit better today so I am hoping she is on the uphill swing finally! However, I started feeling sick the other day and now Kayla isn't feeling good again! Both of us have a hoarse voice and scratchy throat. Eli was like that a week or so ago.

Update on the sick kids...

So I had only posted about Emma on Monday but this week has been a sick week for the kids. Not only was Emma sick (as you can see in the previous post) and didn't break her fever until Tuesday afternoon but her rash still didn't quite go away. It wasn't red anymore but you could still feel it on her skin. Hmmm....cause for concern. The Kayla stayed home sick from school on Tuesday with a fever. She told me about halfway through the day that she was starting to get the rash that Emma got. Hmmm...another cause for concern. But I figured we would just watch her to see what happened since the Dr thought Emma's body was just reacting to fighting off a cold. Then Kayla's throat started to hurt and she wasn't getting much better. We let her go back to school (reluctantly but she basically begged) yesterday. Oops! I got them in to see our actual Dr (we didn't get to see him on Monday) this afternoon and turns out that they have strep! Geez! I also had to take Eli for a couple of skin issues that he has. So we had 3 appts (all together thankfully but paid separately) and left with 3 prescriptions! The good news is that the antibiotic Eli is on will keep him from getting strep!

So my day tomorrow will be spent hanging around the house with the kids while we wait for the antibiotics to have 24 hrs in their system so that they are no longer contagious and hopefully are feeling better!

Sick

This is how you know your toddler is sick....

This was at 8am...she had only just woke up at 7ish....you can see how red her face was. She fell asleep just a minute or two after I took this picture. She developed a fever last night around dinner time (took a rare afternoon nap and woke up hot) and it only got worse from there. Then this morning she developed a rash that would get worse when her fever got higher. So needless to say, she was feeling bad enough that this is all she did for most of the day.