The flu came to visit us this last month. Just as I was finally getting some decent sleep, the flu kicked down our door and viciously attacked my kids. It was a nightmare of 105 degree fevers, vomiting, turning our bathroom into a sauna, humidifiers, and secondary infection.
Before it was over, ChrissyCoughs-A-Lot has gotten: the flu, a double ear infection and a urinary tract infection. We learned one very important lesson with that: stop waiting for her to display abnormal symptoms or behaviors before calling for a doctor appointment.
We have, until now, operated on the assumption that we could just handle everything at home. We both agreed that taking her out just put other people at risk for being infected by her. Also, though, we didn't want her to pick up something worse in a waiting room.
Well, our reasoning got us a kid that was a lot sicker than she needed to be. Now she's taking an antibiotic (that some idiot, who will remain nameless, let's just say she's normally totally awesome...ahem, left out on the counter overnight so she had to start her dosages over again) and she is doing much better.
The scary part of this story is that she really wasn't acting abnormally. Even when her fever was leveled off at 103, she still chased her brother around the house and threw the mother of all tantrums when we wouldn't let her play outside. She was not giving us any reason to suspect that her ears or her....anyway, that anything hurt her.
She's back at school now. Which only means that we need to stock up on more fever reducer, because I'm sure the flu liked it here and will probably be visiting again soon.
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