It started last weekend, Dig was coughing a little, nothing crazy. He played his soccer game, went to Mimi's to play with cousins all afternoon and about 8 pm he hit a wall. All of a sudden he slowed down, sat on my lap and said, "I'm tired." SO not like him. I looked at Ryan and said, "we better go so we don't get anyone sick!" We were there to meet our new niece, Mara and didn't want any of the 5 cousins getting sick! We were packed up and on our way in a few minutes.
Sunday Dig had a fever and a croupy cough. An early morning scare on Monday sent us right to the doctor. Dig was needing to cough but couldn't get a breath. Add mucous in his throat, the feeling that he needed to throw up and a bloody nose all in about three minutes and we were both shaking and scared. The doctor tested him for influenza. Thankfully, that came back negative, but Bubs was put on a nebulizer and steroid for the entire week. I could see an improvement with the first nebulizer treatment. He took his icky medicine like a champ and never complained while taking his breathing treatment. He watched Karate Kid from Uncle Steve and 3 Ninjas from Uncle Shawn. He ate lots of popsicles and drank lots of Gatorade. He was bummed he had to miss the entire week of Kindergarten, Karate, soccer practice and a soccer game. All very important things to this six year old! We got a new workbook to do while he was home and practiced addition flash cards. He also talked Nanny into buying him some new markers that kept him busy one entire day!
such a brave boy!
He tried spelling his name with the 'smoke'
Monday night we thought Ryan was coming down with whatever it was Lane had. Instead he had the stomach flu. Perfect. There's nothing I hate more than the stomach flu. Ryan worked Tuesday morning but had to stay home the afternoon and Wednesday morning. He scheduled a doctors appointment for Wednesday afternoon in hopes of getting some magic shot to get him over the hump of terrible nausea/ vomiting. No such luck. Instead, they sent him to Waterloo to get a CAT scan at 4:00, thinking perhaps he was needing and apendectomy because his white blood count was so high. After two hours of drinking a huge cup of disgusting liquid for the test (still don't know how he kept that down!) we were transferred to the ER so he could receive IV fluids. Ended up it was just a terrible bout of the stomach flu. 8 hours in the hospital and we were both exhausted.
Thankfully, we're all healthy again and were able to have a fun family Sunday at a corn maze then at a pumpkin farm. Just what we needed.
P.S. We also all got our flu shots! =)
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