We Made It

Last week was a tough one. Shane started antibiotics last Saturday morning for a respiratory infection. He had been getting Motrin every 6 hours for a fever and we still had trouble keeping it down. But after the antibiotics he was feeling a lot better by Monday morning. Unfortunately, Jonah got a fever Sunday night and on Monday morning Sam was vomiting.

I loaded everybody up in the van to drop Wyatt off at preschool and Sam threw up the entire way there. Luckily we had a big towel for him and he did well keeping everything in the towel. I drove straight to the pediatrician's office after dropping Wyatt off at school. Even though they didn't open until 9am I figured that it would be harder to turn us down for a quick appointment if we were there in person rather than calling on the phone. I knew that strep throat was going around so I figured that Jonah and Sam would need a rapid strep culture and then we could be on our way.

Thankfully they fit us into the schedule right away and did rapid strep cultures on both boys. While we were waiting for the results the doctor came in and checked the boys noses, throats, and ears. When she looked in Sam's ears she said "Ummmm, wow! He has a fairly bad ear infection! He will definitely need antibiotics for this even if the strep test comes out negative." Then the doctor looked in Jonah's ears and said "Yeah, his ears look even worse than his brothers! He has a horrible ear infection! I am surprised that he hasn't said anything to you about his ear hurting!?!?!?" (insert shameful judgmental look of bad parenting here)

So I said "Jonah does your ear hurt?". He said "no." Then I said "Sam, does your ear hurt?" Sam said "Hmmm, no, but my leg hurts!" The doctor looked shocked.

So, feeling slightly vindicated I said "Well, there you have it!" And now we have three boys on antibiotics. Everybody is feeling better and things are almost back to normal. It literally takes almost a week to get back into the groove after illness and missed school, but we are back on track!