achoo! achoo! achoo!
that's the only sound i hear when i pick colton up from school friday. i ask him how he's feeling & he tells me he has been doing that all day. immediately, i think his allergies have sprung up from nowhere so i start him back on his allergy meds. claritin & a nasal spray.
saturday morning he's not sounding much different & he keeps telling me his eyes are bothering him. i think for sure that means it's his allergies. knowing that his meds take some time to have an actual effect, i give him some benadryl to temporarily relieve his symptoms.... nothing happens. hmm....
six hours go by & he is just as bad, if not worse than when he woke up. this time i give him two tsp instead of one... not much change.
i am now convinced it's not allergies ( i am however keeping him on his meds since fall is fast approaching) he's got a cold. a cold i am sure he brought home from school. it took 8 whole days of being in school for the first sickness to come home.
fast forward to sunday. colton is sneezy & his nose is running away, but his spirits are high & he is happy. me? i wake up with a sore throat & stuffy nose. it gets worse as the day goes on. by sunday night i am loaded up on cold meds & just ready for the day to be done.
monday, labor day. i promised braedon i would go to the dollar store & see if they have any new puzzles. so i head to dollar tree, the grocery store for a few things, gas station & home.
when i get home jeremiah tells me braedon didn't eat his breakfast & feels really hot.
"did you take his temperature"
"uh, no"
men. poor baby has a fever of 101. give him some meds & comes down. lets fast forward to about 6pm. braedon & i are sitting on the floor at the coffee table doing his homework, after an hour long ordeal to get it done he is finally coloring his pages. he's sitting on my lap. next thing i know his moves are getting slower & slower & slower & then he's passed out. right there, on the coffee table. crayon in hand. ohhh man was his brother cracking up!
moved him to the couch where he slept a few hours. woke up, took some more meds for his fever, had a couple waffles per his request & back to sleep he went.
this morning he is currently snuggled up in his room, watching a movie & playing his leappad ... with a fever!
poor guy! made it through surgery like a champ only to get hit by some icky germs colton brought home. we're really hoping he breaks his fever today so he can go back to school tomorrow. he hasnt been since last wednesday! 8! after a healthy summer for both kids it took 8 days!! in school for the sickies to start! sigh....
[later this week posts on: surgery day, school so far & homework!]
