More Sickness

I know. My posts are so exciting lately. But, again, it's for me...so there. :P

Something I didn't report on was the weekend of Easter. I'm not going to talk about Easter now either (we just stayed home and had a nice meal...that about covers it, anyway.) but the fact that two days prior to Easter Ethan got strep throat. He was given Amoxicillin for 10 days. He finished that this past Sunday. On Wednesday he woke up complaining of a sore throat. I made him go to school anyway since mornings seem the worst for sore throats and hoped it would feel better as the day went on. I guess it didn't since he told me as soon as I picked him up, "guess what? my throat hurt all day." By the time I was giving hugs and kisses goodnight I could tell he was feeling a little warm. He stayed home from school and finally got him to the doctor that evening. The doc said that his throat was bright red and swabbed him for strep. In about 3 minutes I could hear a 'beep, beep, beep...' I assumed this meant that the rapid strep test could already tell that it was positive. It still took the doc several more minutes to come back in to tell me it was positive. So back on antibiotics. This time it's Augmentin, which doesn't taste nearly as good as amoxicillin but is stronger and hopefully will get rid of it completely this time. He's had 3 doses and this morning sounds like his tonsils are shrinking a bit.

Two days before I took Ethan in, I took Tanner in for his cough. It was just nonstop and I couldn't relieve any of his symptoms at home so I deemed it necessary for a doc visit. The doc gave him two strong meds that I honestly thought were a little overboard. One was a cough med with codeine that in the pamphlet said not to give to kids under 16 years. Kinda scary. The other was a syrup of Prednisone of sorts. That is pretty serious stuff. I only gave him one dose (before I read the paperwork). One reason I didn't give him more was the fact that the paperwork said to consult with a doc before having immunizations and he was scheduled to get one 3 days later. The same day I kept Ethan home from school Tanner seemed significantly better, thank goodness.

Again, on the same Thursday, it seemed like Garrett was starting to get a cough toward the end of the day. I had to leave first thing in the morning the next day for Tanner's allergy appt so wasn't able to observe him myself, but according to my Mom he definitely had a fever and a bit of a cough but seemed pleasant. After I got home and he woke from his nap I could tell he had a fever so I gave him meds. He definitely has a cough but so far it doesn't seem nearly as persistent as Tanner's. Well, except for 3:30 this morning. I was sleeping lightly (because my bladder was trying to wake me up) when I heard somewhat of a cry. Silly me investigated the sound before I went potty and discovered Garrett sitting up in bed and spotted me. I did several things to resolve whatever his problem was (he wasn't coughing much at this point) like giving him gas medicine since he kept tooting, giving him pain med in case his throat was the culprit, filling his sippy cup with cold water, and then put him back in bed. I went potty, got back in bed, and then he started with his coughing fit. It was like Tanner's where it wasn't anything phlegmy just nagging and sometimes made him make a gagging sound. After a little while I got up and gave him a dose of cough med. Went back to bed. I kept waiting for the magical time of 1/2 an hour where he would suddenly be relieved of his cough but when it didn't happen I got up and grabbed a 'sore throat sucker'. At first I was thinking, I'll just give it to him and not worry about the stickiness or mess he might make with it, but right after I gave it to him and he tried to bite it I realized, "Oh crap, now I've got to stay right here until he's done with it in case he chokes." I don't know how long it took him to finish it but after several minutes of standing there I sat/lied in the massage chair. The good thing was that the sucker seemed to help him, the bad thing was that he was acting like he was wide awake and had no interest in going back to sleep. As soon as he was done, though, I wiped down his hands, made him lay down, covered him up and said goodnight. I'm sure I was back asleep before he was.

I think it was nearly 2 hours total that he was awake. This doesn't include the time before midnight that Tanner's crying woke me from my slumber on the couch to discover that he'd peed his pants. Apparently he'd been crying long and loud enough to wake up Garrett. Tanner was hardly wet but we changed him completely anyway. When I put Tanner back to bed Garrett seemed pretty awake and I wonder how long it took him to fall back asleep.

I think that's it for the drama but now I've got to get my tired behind busy since Jon is available to help me today. I pointed out to him yesterday how besides our work on the garage last Friday, nothing has been done on the basement itself in exactly one month. At that rate it won't even be close to being done before this baby comes. Only 158 more days or 22.5 weeks.