Donny came home from school with a fever ten days ago. I started his breathing treatments again because he had a small cough. He stayed home Thursday and Friday, but was back to school on Monday. Wednesday I got a call to pick him up because his fever was back. Meanwhile, Abigail spiked a fever and was also home. We all went to the doctor on Thursday and Abigail was diagnosed with Croup and Donny just had a fever with cold like symptoms.
Abigail was prescribed a steroid. The first night on the steroid, I had to change her clothes twice because she was soaking wet. Last night, she spent about three hours off and on, screaming and shouting orders...HOLD ME, DON'T TOUCH ME and on and on. She was having night terrors and we just needed to let her work it out. Big Daddy had another idea. He was certain what she really needed was a pattern interrupt. All of the sudden he starts yelling, "TINKERBELL! TINKERBELL! TINKERBELL!" "What are you doing?" "I'm trying to distract her." Of course, screaming at her will really calm her down. It did have one positive result, every time I think about it I can't help but laugh.
Both kids had a fever this morning so we returned to the doctor. Abigail has an ear infection and Donny has pneumonia. I guess that's the way it goes.
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