Sickies

Our current house guests

Winter has not been kind to our family. Over the last few weeks one or more of us has been sick at all times.

Of all of us I was the least sick. Maybe it has something to do with the prenatal vitamins and crazy amount of water I drink each day. I managed to get through it with a sore throat and runny nose every morning that doesn't bother me much the rest of the day.

Jonas has had a cough and runny nose off and on the whole time. For some reason my poor kids get a croupy sounding cough as soon as it gets cold. We even have a heater in their room at night but it doesn't seem to matter. Nothing will stop this kid though. He still has just as much energy as always!

Liam has now had his second flu. The first time was so bizarre. He woke up one morning and spent the next couple of hours in the bathroom - so obviously we kept him home from school. That night he was up most of the night throwing up and then the next morning he was fine. We still kept him home from school. We couldn't understand where it came from and thought maybe it was food poisoning (except that didn't make sense because we had all eaten the same things that day). When I took him back to school the following school day it all made sense when I saw that seriously half the school was out sick.

Yesterday Liam had a busy and fun day. First he had a birthday party to go to and after that we went to a church talent show. After the party he started to lose his voice but I just figured it was from having so much fun and being so loud. Then at 10:30 last night I heard him calling for me. He said he was going to throw up and that he was too hot. I brought him a bowl (because we never trust that he'll be able to make it to the toilet) and checked his temperature. Sure enough he was 101 and within a few minutes had thrown up. He seems to be feeling a little better today besides a sore throat but I am staying home from church with him.

Poor Nate has been the worst. It must have been 3 weeks ago now that he started to feel sick. Mostly blocked sinuses, a cough that wouldn't go away, and we could hear it in his chest when he breathed. He finally went into the health centre on campus on the Friday of that week. The Dr. said he had bronchitis and a sinus infection, put him on antibiotics and scheduled another appointment with him the following Friday. The next Friday he went in still not feeling 100% so the Dr. put him on a more aggressive dose of antibiotics and sent him for a blood test because she thought he might have whooping cough. And she scheduled him for another appointment for the following Friday. At that appointment he was told he didn't have whooping cough but did have Pneumonia. He has been mostly feeling better but still has a cough. Now he is just supposed to keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn't get any worse.

We haven't been to church as a family for at least 3 weeks. I'm not sure I can take anymore of this sickness garbage! We are having a baby in less than 5 weeks and this house is full of germs!! I'm hoping this nesting thing kicks in in full force before her arrival so I might be able to get this place disinfected.