I think the title fairly covered all points...but let me bring you all up to speed.
So the Tuesday before Halloween, Michael started to feel poorly, and by Wednesday he was miserable. Cold like symptoms, times ten, fever, just miserable. Took Thursday off of work, went back to work on Friday, feeling better. Then Friday evening WHAM...not only did he feel bad again, he felt worse & the fever was back.
Which lead us to a Daddy-less Halloween. While he was laid up in bed, I got the girls ready (Riley's first Halloween!) and began my Halloween runaround, err, umm, their trick or treating. Leaving the house 30 minutes later then planned, headed across town to Meghan's....knock on the door, nobody home (thanks Megan). Head to "Grammy's" for "Boompa's" birthday. Trick or treat at a few places there, have cake & ice cream, leaving at 6:45 back towards our house to pick up my mom. Okay, have my mom, who is standing in for Michael, and we head to our regular area of trick or treating. About half a block down Madison says "Mom, I have to go to the bathroom". Of course she has to go to the bathroom, because that's what 5 year olds do when they are dressed in a costume with long flowy sleaves, even though they went before we left the house. Okay, that's alright...."aunt" Lori lives somewhere on this street. Bathroom break taken we continue on. Just as Madison begins complaining that it would be "wayyyy more fun if we were with friends" who should we run into, but one of her good friends Naomi & family! Yay! So we hit a street with them before going in different directions. Their direction was home, which really was a good direction. Ours was back down Nebraska st, to visit with a friend. That's okay though, they had a chair, so I got to sit down.
While out trick or treating, in the whole hour and a half we were out, I got calls from 3 different family members asking when we were going to stop by. Finish our official trick or treating at 8:20 & head out to Grandpa & Granma Roxann's house. From there we head back across town towards our hood...but ha! if you think we are heading home on Halloween at 9:40 at night with a whiney 5 year old & an asleep baby, you are WRONG. Nope we're heading over to Carol's...which really ends up being her neighbors house that they are partying at (which I want to add in, had some awesome decorations inside!). So it is finally 10pm and we are officially headed home.
Poor Madison didn't even get a chance to zone out on candy when we got home, she asleep by the time we pulled into the driveway.
So on with the sickness....Sunday night (Nov. 1) about 30 minutes before bedtime Madison says she doens't feel so good, thinking it was too much Halloween candy I told her she'd be fine. Putting her in bed I realize she does feel a little warm. Break out our handy thermometer and she has a temp of 100.3, officially .3 degrees above what her school tells you to keep kids home from. The next morning I take it again, it's hovering at 99.9. Deciding not to be one of those moms that all the other moms hate for sending her child to school sick, especially in this day of H1N1 I keep her home. Someday when she is a teenager and is begging NOT to go to school, I will appreciate this, but that morning she cried, yes, cried about not wanting to stay home, begging for me to let her go to school. I kept her home Monday & Tuesday to be on the safe side.
So Wednesday, all is clear, Michael is back at work, Madison is at school, I had breakfast out with a girlfriend & Riley was great. We're all good right? Um....no. After breakfast Riley choose to snooze in her carseat on the way home. She was still sleeping when we got home so I just left her in her car seat, as we would be leaving within the hour to pick Maddy up anyway. She zzzz'd away the entire time at home. While at the school, she was pretty darn mellow and I realized she was feeling pretty warm. Got home & her temp was 104. Stripped her down & temp after an hour was 103. Then it went up to 103.6. Waited 2 hours for a call back from the doctors office (with one nearly irrate call in between from me) for them to call me & tell me to take her to the ER, it sounded as if it was H1N1.
Get to the ER & to their credit, they had us in the back within 10 minuts. They took her temp & it was 105.2. OMG! I felt like the most horrible mommy in the world. They put an ice pack on her back & ended up giving her a double dose of Tylanol & Motrin. Nearly 3 hours later we walked out, after 2 failed attempts of trying to catch her urine in a bag attatched to her girly regions, and her temp dropping down to 99.9 with the diagnosis of an upper respratory viral infection. The doc on the sly said it was probably H1N1, but they don't test for it there.
So, mommy has been dealing with a very unhappy baby. Things were getting better, Tessa even watched her on Friday while Michael & I took Maddy to the movies on Friday. Saturday we brought her out while we went to dinner with Mary & Jonathan. She had been cruising around, laughing some, playing. Oh, AND walking! Yes, she had taken a single step here & there, but Saturday she took 4 steps to me!! Yes, we all saw it, so it wasn't dellarious tired mommy imagining Riley was walking, but my mom & Michael all saw it! Woohoo! Beginning to walk at 10 months 1 week!
Well, that now brings us to Sunday. Now Riley is acting worse then the day before & so is Daddy. He has a swollen knee and says he feels like he is sick all over again. So he is once again laid up on the couch, while I am holding on to a clingy unhappy baby who is rubbing her snot all over my sweatshirt.
On the brightside.......hmmm......I know there's a brightside somewhere here. Give me a minute...I'll find it.
