Another day filled with puke bowls and an unhappy kiddo or two. One with a seemingly non-stop flu and another with strep-throat. Yessiree!! It’s been so much fun around here!! So far our middle daughter hasn’t picked anything up from either of he siblings; this is strange, but true. I’m certainly not about to protest!! Also, and even stranger, I haven’t caught either of the bugs and I’ve been spending he past few days with my two sickies. I’m feeling pretty exhausted though. I’m trying not to get too worn out, or I’ll become more susceptible to all he damn germs!! I was looking forward to an uninterrupted night, but that may not happen now. I took the sicko’s to the dr this evening. She said their is a super nasty flu going around and my son likely has it (she’s quite surprised that none of us have it yet). She said that he’s very dehydrated and gave us a medication that should help take care of the nausea, so that he is able to start keeping things down; like fluids and medication for his high fever. She had one at the clinic and gave it to him there. It’s like a tiny wafer that dissolves on his tongue. She gave me a prescription for some for home. So we got the prescription and I didn’t even look at them, because he didn’t need one that soon. However, I just gave him one now, because he can’t sleep because his tummy hurts and he just feels like crap. He problem is I think instead of the dissolvable ones, I think the pharmacy gave me actual pills. I gave him one, already believing it was the wrong form, but hoping it’d get gooey enough that he could just get it down with a couple sips of water. Well, no such luck. It started to taste “gross and yucky” so he spit it out. So now, of course, the pharmacy is closed, which means, possibly another night filled with my poor little man throwing up, the tiny bit of crackers and applesauce that he ate. Also, the dr was worried about the dehydration and said that if he’s the same tomorrow, we have to take him to emergency for IV-fluids…yay!! Sigh…

So, unfortunately, tonight is going to be another boring post. I’m tired and he’s still awake after unsuccessfully taking that pill. I’m just praying that the liquid Advil stays down. That may help with some of the tummy and chest muscle pains from all of the dry-heaving. My poor little boy. I hate when kids get sick. He keeps asking me to make his tummy stop hurting. I hate when they depend on you, but you can’t “fix” the problem. It sucks! So, off to bed for, hopefully, a full nights sleep (fingers crossed).

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