Sick Sick Sick

No, this is not a pharmaceutical advertisement. I thought I would relieve a little stress and blog about what my week (our family's week) has been like. I try to keep my blog pretty up beat and positive because who wants to hear a bunch of complaining, but life is just not always a bed of roses, so if you are only into reading chipper blogs, I am warning you, stop reading. This is my way of journaling and I don't have a whole lot of positive things to say about this week besides we are all still alive and we all still love each other. Well as I said earlier, someone in our family has been sick since the beginning of the year, but this week everyone has been sick besides Darin. It all started two Sundays ago, Elizabeth ran a fever, but she had no other symptoms, so I just figured she was cutting teeth. Then last Thursday Abigail came down with a cold and a pretty serious cough, she was down for the whole weekend. Sunday, is when it really hit. Emily started running a fever around 102, I gave her Motrin and Tylenol to break the fever, but I had a really hard time getting it to come down, by Monday she had a runny nose and yucky eyes, so I took her to the doctor, mind you Abigail is still sick at this point. The doctor pretty much thought I was crazy for bringing Emily in because she broke her fever in the car on the way to his office and she was in a decent mood when we got there. He sent me home and said that it was just a cold. By the time we got home Emily had a 103.7 fever and her eyes were glued shut with green junk (yuck!). I knew this was not just a cold. I pretty much held her all night and gave her more pain medicine, and a cool bath to try to break the fever. Nothing seemed to help this baby. In the morning, my neighbor showed up at my house and took one look at Emily and said, "Misty you need to get this baby to the doctor" my neighbor is an EMT, so I took her advice and went to a different doctor's office for a second opinion. This time I was told that Emily had a pretty severe sinus infection. So, we got Emily on some antibiotics. By Wednesday, Abigail was feeling about 80% better, but Elizabeth started with the runny nose and now a cough. Emily wasn't really doing any better. Thursday we headed back to the doctor and I had them examine both twins. The diagnosis this time was: Elizabeth - ear infection & upper respiratory virus, Emily - sinus infection & bronchitis. Are you kidding me? My kids were so sick in the doctor's office that they screamed the entire time, so much that a nurse came and sat with me the whole time I was there. After I left the doctor's office it was on to the pharmacy for more antibiotics, Prednizone (a steroid medicine to help the twins breath), and Albuterol for breathing treatments. Abigail seemed to be coming out of the sickness, but could I really be so lucky? Not this week. On Friday morning she woke up with a mild eye infection. I am hoping we can just do eye drops and not have to have a fourth doctor's visit thisweek. In the mean time I have been lucky to just get a sore throat and be able to keep going, but I don't think I can do this much longer. MERCY!

Abigail thinks that if I put these drops in her eyes it will glue her eyes shut. We had quite the hysteria trying to corral her and convince her that these drops would make her eyes better. She finally did it after we let her put drops in her baby doll's eyes first.

If this won't break a fever what will?

I think Doctors prescribe this for everything.

The Nebulizer is our new best friend.