Sick week

Last week we had some health issues with the kids. Bo was showing signs of ear problems again. Plus, he was drooling a lot. Daddy took him into the doctor and had them check. Before we could even say anything, she said she could probably guess why we were there. She checked his ears (that do not have tubes) and said they looked a little infected. His throat and glands were swollen too.

First she did a throat swab to see if he had strep throat. When that came back negative, she wanted to do blood work to check for Mono. Bo was not excited about this at all. He freaks out when he sees blood. We had to hold him down while they pricked his finger and took a blood sample. We waited another 15mins while that test came back. It was inconclusive so she wanted us to go across the hall to have more blood drawn. Since Bo thought he was finished after the first one, he did not like this idea.

After getting him calm, we walked down the hall to Qwest to have his blood taken. Let's just say they were not the friendliest people there nor did they have the skills to work with children. Since this time it was going to be a needle in the arm, I had to have Bo sit on my lap so I could wrap my legs around his legs and my arms to control his upper body. The one "nurse" held his arm while the other stuck him. Bo screamed and did his best to twist uncontrollable. I think one quote from the "lady" was "Don't bite me kid". And of course she had to put two sets of gloves on and the extra long ones that go up to your elbow because she was saying he was scratching her.

After that ordeal, we had to wait 3 days for a result. The results came back saying his one blood cell count was really high which usually means you have mono. However, he hasn't had a fever or shown any other signs of being swollen he was ok to do everything as normal. I have to admit the previous week he had been acting very tired. I believe he fell asleep in the car 3 times in a week which is something he rarely ever does.

It is a week later now and his throat and glands are back to normal and he hasn't had a fever at all so I guess the virus is already passed.

The day after taking Bo to the doctor, Emily woke up the next morning with two big swollen pink eyes. This means she would have to stay home for two days. This is a picture of her after the doctor gave her some drops for her eyes. She didn't like getting the drops either so I had to pin her down and force them in the eyeballs as she called them. It was funny at one point, some of the eye drop was running down her cheek and went into her mouth a little. She was crying a lot of course. She said it is in my mouth, ahhhhh, now i'm going to throw up. She was very dramatic but after one day of the drops, her eyes were back to normal.