Thursday, February 10, 2011

Good at sharing

My boys are really good at sharing. Germs at least. About 3 weeks ago Jared started feeling a sore throat. He looked at his tonsils and saw those lovely white spots. After a trip to Instacare he had an antibiotic and was on the road to recovery. Not before sharing though. Last week (it will actually be two weeks ago from this coming Sunday) I substituted in a Sunbeam class. Crue came with me instead of going to his class. Near the end he told me he needed to throw up. A few trips to the bathroom later while the Primary Presidency watched my class he still hadn't thrown up and it was time to go home. He ended up throwing up that night. He threw up for the next three days (sometimes multiple times a day and sometimes only once a day) and had a fever. He kept saying his throat hurt but we figured it was from all the throwing up. Finally on Wednesday we took him to the doctor. He had strep. He was already starting to feel a little better. We got his antibiotics and now he's good. He likes taking his pink medicine. :) This Wednesday morning Cooper woke up early crying. Jared finally got him out of bed and there was yellow stuff in his bed that we were quite sure what it was (he had a lot of snot too). Then a little later he threw up and we figured out it was the same as what was in his bed. He started getting better that day so I figured by that afternoon it was just a quick thing and he was good. We took the suburban to Jared at work so he could fix the brakes that night. When we left Cooper started feeling warm. We got home and he had a fever. Great. Round 3. Took him to the doctor this morning and as the doctor said, shocker, he's positive. We'll get his antibiotic started tonight and I asked the doctor for some too so I don't get it. I am so glad to have an end in sight to these miserable last few weeks with everyone being sick (I was sick the week before Jared but I just threw up a few times and was good a couple days later). And to hopefully no more strep! Hopefully the only time we'll be seeing any doctors in the future is for my checkups and when this baby comes in 10 weeks! Other than that, I hope we don't have to visit any more doctors. Even if they are really nice.

2 comments:

Erin Shakespear said...

Oh, it's so nice your boys are so good at sharing! :)

Hope you guys get healthy and stay that way!

Mellissa said...

Yes, nice doctors are, well, nice. But that doesn't mean I ever want to see them in their office, especially when I'm sick.

I'm glad there is end in sight. Although strep throat is horrible in the moment, at least it clears up quickly and doesn't last for two weeks like a cold does.

I hope your family gets and stays better!