Sick and Tired...of Being Sick and Tired
This has been a ROUGH cold and flu season for my family...My 2 yr old has had the crud for 5 months...has been on 3 rounds of antibiotics, 3 different allergy medications, and finally seen an actual allergist (turns out she is not allergic to anything - so much for the small town MD).
Over Christmas we ALL had the crud, then the stomach bug...then we finally got a little better...but not all the way. We hadn't been home from TX for 2 days before my daughter, Mayah, was running a fever and had another runny nose and cough.
Today I had to take my 3 month old son in because he started coughing yesterday, the croupy kind of cough...and couldn't breath through his nose (I also woke up with another sore throat) Turns out he has RSV. It has been going around the area...and the daycare my daughter goes to sent home a letter requesting everyone be tested...we had her tested, but her MD said she was fine.
So, Sam's MD (who is different from my daughter's because Sam has a thyroid condition that has to be treated by a specialist) told me that my daughter is probably carrying the virus also, and we have to treat both of them...I also found out that my daughter's MD didn't really test her for RSV when we asked them to...which may be the reason she has been sick for so long. See, you actually have to send a mucous sample to the lab, not just listen to the child breath! They both have to be on breathing treatments...Sam has to be watched especially close, and if he is having trouble breathing, we have to take him to the emergency room immediately.
When the MD called me back with Sam's RSV results, he also gave me his latest thyroid levels, which are not where they are supposed to be...so, we've been hit with both pretty serious bits of information at one time.
I am officially the best booger sucker, nose blower, vapor-tent maker , pill crusher in the state of Nebraska...and I doubt I will ever sleep again!
Today I've been Cloroxing my house...and wiping all of Mayah's toys down with lysol disinfectant...I think this process could take a week, and by then, it will need to be done again. I am SO at the end of my rope with my family being sick...
I have decided to take my daughter out of her little learning center...though she asks me when she gets to go again every day....
Over Christmas we ALL had the crud, then the stomach bug...then we finally got a little better...but not all the way. We hadn't been home from TX for 2 days before my daughter, Mayah, was running a fever and had another runny nose and cough.
Today I had to take my 3 month old son in because he started coughing yesterday, the croupy kind of cough...and couldn't breath through his nose (I also woke up with another sore throat) Turns out he has RSV. It has been going around the area...and the daycare my daughter goes to sent home a letter requesting everyone be tested...we had her tested, but her MD said she was fine.
So, Sam's MD (who is different from my daughter's because Sam has a thyroid condition that has to be treated by a specialist) told me that my daughter is probably carrying the virus also, and we have to treat both of them...I also found out that my daughter's MD didn't really test her for RSV when we asked them to...which may be the reason she has been sick for so long. See, you actually have to send a mucous sample to the lab, not just listen to the child breath! They both have to be on breathing treatments...Sam has to be watched especially close, and if he is having trouble breathing, we have to take him to the emergency room immediately.
When the MD called me back with Sam's RSV results, he also gave me his latest thyroid levels, which are not where they are supposed to be...so, we've been hit with both pretty serious bits of information at one time.
I am officially the best booger sucker, nose blower, vapor-tent maker , pill crusher in the state of Nebraska...and I doubt I will ever sleep again!
Today I've been Cloroxing my house...and wiping all of Mayah's toys down with lysol disinfectant...I think this process could take a week, and by then, it will need to be done again. I am SO at the end of my rope with my family being sick...
I have decided to take my daughter out of her little learning center...though she asks me when she gets to go again every day....
posted by KariBryant @ 2:51 PM
3 Comments:
At 12:26 PM,
One Voice of Many said…
augh.. so sorry to hear all of the illness you've been dealing with. Sick 3 month olds are no fun in deed! You will sleep again... eventually. Hang in there! I hope things start calming down for you very very soon.
Michelle
At 7:54 PM,
Nate said…
What is your son's full name? My son's name is Samuel Christian.
RSV is nasty stuff. My daughter got when she was 5 months old. But she was two months premature, so she was really the same age as your son. Do you have the breathing treatment thingy?
At 8:41 AM,
Anonymous said…
I'm sorry to hear it, Kari - but boy do we know it! Poor Josiah has been sick ALLLL winter too! This is the first time ever and it's like he's making up for not ever getting sick before. And Anna gets hit with a fever at least once a week! It's a real drag and I was just thinking that this has been the longest winter...
My consolation, "this too shall pass" and "one day at a time" (in the hymn sense of the word, not the stupid sit-com ;-))
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