Sickness!!!! Sickness!!!! and more Sickness!!!

You have been warned! This is a miserable post. I started way back on February and have just kept adding to it (this was not planned, I just never found the time to sit down and finish it up).  Well, now I am making the time because as I laid in bed last night with my husband staying the night in the hospital I decided, if I finish that D*# post, this dark sickness cloud that is hanging over us will MOVE ON! 

I am soooooo over "the cough"! Even as I type this the little one is sitting here with me coughing, ugh! Someone at any given time, since December 19th, has had a cough, croup, cold, ear infection and/or flu in this house.  MAKE IT GO AWAY! I WAVE THE WHITE FLAG AND SURRENDER TO THE FLU SEASON. We have never made so many trips to the pediatrician. Warmer weather and sunnier days cannot come fast enough! 

 I picked Ella up one day from school white as a ghost.  She had no fever leaving school, fell asleep in the car on the way home, walked in the house and she had a fever of 103. She went right to bed and slept to the next morning. Poor thing, she had her very first absence in kindergarden.

 This is her feeling better and taking a close look at herself in the mirror.

 This is Addison with a bad cough....that will not go away.

 Poor Cooper had ear infections that would not go away and a stomach that would not tolerate  the meds. He ended up getting anobiotic shots that were no fun at all.  You would never guess the two photos above were taken the same day.

So I started this post a few days ago and before I could finish and publish we have visited the dr. two more time this week.  If you could see my face it would look tired, worn out and over it. 

 This is Addison back at the Dr. for that rotten cough. She ended up being tested for RSV twice, whooping cough, and checking for an infection with a chest X-ray. We now have her (and the other two off and on)  on a steroid inhaler and it seems to be working.

Ella and Cooper thought Addison's little breathing treatment mask was very cool. 

One morning I was on my way inside with my class, when the medal poll between the two doors came flying out and landed on my foot.  Ouch! But thank goodness it was not a kids head.  For a brief moment I was hoping maybe someone would send me home, but NO, I was just told to stay off my foot.  You know, something that is rather impossible to do when you teach first grade. 

And the fun keeps coming... two weeks ago Ella came downstairs in tears before we woke her up in the morning (which NEVER happens) and said her ear really hurt.  Benji took her into the Dr and .... the second ear infection this year for her.  

This past Monday, we picked Addie up from child care looking like this. For some weird reason she always gets a very red eye with each ear infection (this is number 3 for her). On Tuesday I got a call saying she was throwing up all over, yep she could not keep the antibiotic down and we had to go back for another one.  AND...just wait.....

Tuesday afternoon Benji comes home from work not feeling well at all.  We call Ashely with the symptoms and she tells us it is a valid ER visit.  We call our neighbor Jill for a second opinion and she tells us to go to the ER.  We head to the ER, they pump Benji full of fluids, tell him to make an appointment with his Dr and send us home. The Dr's were worried as his Kidney function is not normal.

 On Thursday,  he was feeling really sick at school (yes he still went to school as it is the Seniors last week and he felt bad missing it) and got into his Dr earlier. They did all of the tests again and sent him for a CT scan to see if he had Kidney stones. The scan was clear (he was not happy about this as it would have given him an answer) but the good part was no masses either.

Then on Friday he got his blood results back and his numbers were worsening and Ashley wanted him to go to the ER again to get it checked again to see if the numbers were getting better since the day before. Sad to say they are not. Normal range for what they were looking at is 1-1.2 and as of Friday night he was 2.34. So they admitted him for the night. Ashley did have a sadistic pleasure in giving her brother TWO different IV's as the first one was hurting him. He stayed at the hospital Friday night but as we all know sleeping doesn't happen in hospitals and it wasn't the vacation he would have hoped for.

A Nephrologist (yes he has one now) came in and sat with him Saturday morning and went through everything he could think of and of course per my husbands health history......they don't know what is wrong with him. Everything that is "normally" wrong with someone he doesn't fit and now has to see the Nephrologist sometime this week at his office to do more tests. UGH!!!!!
This is not how he, or any of us wanted our Memorial Day weekend to go, but very thankful for the three days off. I have given him orders to do nothing this weekend and he is somewhat listening.

Okay, I strongly believe when I push PUBLISH, this will all turn around!  I have sent this out to the world and now we are done with it!!!! Here is to summer and better health!

P.S. On a side note, I promise I have cleaned, disinfected and aired out our house may times these last few months, fed my family healthy food and provided multi vitamins.