The Plague!

Jack brought home the plague from daycare last week.

He started having a fever last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Friday I took him to see our general practitioner (bad idea, should have taken him to his ENT) who diagnosed it as a common cold that he should start feeling better over the weekend. And if he didin't, then to bring him back the following Monday.

Saturday - the plague arrived full force for me and Alex. The only good part of Saturday was that Jack was feeling much better and his fever broke. Alex and I felt like crap - fever, body aches, nasty nasty congestion and even nastier sore throat and phlegmy chest congested coughs for me. We felt like we'd been beatin wth a hammer. It hurt to walk, to talk, to open our eyes.

Sunday - Alex calls my OB/GYN (as I can no longer talk due to sever throat pain and phlegm) and I am prescribed meds. Thank goodness for responsiev OB/GYNs! Alex still feels like crap and is living off Dayquil and Tylenol. Jack's fever comes back and he is oozing stuff out of his ear and his nose.

Monday - Alex and I take off from work. All 3 of use head to the doctor's office. Jack gets the meds he needs. Alex is on MucinexD along with an assortment of other meds. We are told that chances are we just have the flu.

I've had the flu before.....this is NOT the flu. My throat doesn't feel like it's on fire when I've had the flu before. I do not lose my voice when I have the flu. I do not wheeze and cough in my sleep when I have the flu!

We will be switching to a new doctor shortly.

I am starting to feel conscious again, and Alex went to work. Jack is in the middle of what is now turning into a 4 hour nap - a much needed make-up nap for all the interrupted 'sleep' he's not had the past 3 days. Poor little Fudge.

Thank goodness for my mom who came by everyday since Saturday to help out. Without her, I'm sure recovery would have been delayed and rest would not have been possible for any of us.

I'm afraid to even THINK about what it would be like once Ben is born and all FOUR of us get the plague. Gads.