Welcome Back!
What a week last week and glad that is wrapped up and done!
It all started when I picked Jack up from school on Monday. He immediately said, “Mom. I just don’t feel good.” He didn’t look good either.
I knew he really didn’t feel good when I went up to his room after getting home from school and he was in bed SOUND asleep! OH My!!
He didn’t get out of bed until 9:00 Tuesday morning to go to the doctor. His fever had spiked to 104+ that morning. Found out he had Influenza A. When we got home, he went right back to bed with all his clothes on and three blankets because he was so cold.
Checked on him later and he was sweaty, so I took off blankets, sweatshirt, socks. He slept the entire time! With giving him Tylenol-Ibuprofen every three hours (on the dot and through the night) we were able to keep his fever to 100-101.
After sleeping the entire day on Tuesday and through the night, he actually got up on Wednesday. We stretched the meds to every 3.5-4 hours and kept his fever to 99. He actually got out of bed and spent some time watching TV on the couch! He napped on and off, which he NEVER does. He set the goal to go to school on Friday.
THEN…I got a phone call from Sam about five minutes after he left for school. “Mom. I had an accident.” Heart drop. Thank goodness, he was fine, PHEW!!! No one was hurt in the six cars involved.
The roads on Wednesday were terrible!! SO ICY!! Long story short, there were five cars that had hit each other in an intersection, Sam tried to stop, but due to the ice, he fish tailed, spun his car and hit one of the cars with the passenger side of his truck. His truck is in front of the police car.
When I called the school to let them know about Sam, the gal said they had over 100 students that were going late to school due to the roads. JEEZ! There were accidents all over town. I actually saw one on my way to help Sam and two others on the way home.
I continued giving Jack meds through the day and night…Thursday morning Jack was feeling MUCH better. YEAH!! But, now Charlie was sick. EWewEW!! She threw up and I just stood there and continued folding towels hoping maybe it would just go away. It didn’t. Then Sam came home for lunch and said his didn’t feel the best…NOOOOOOO!!!!
Fast forward to Friday…Jack was able to go to school a half day in the morning and was in bed by 8. Wiped out!! Sam ended up with just a cold. (phew) And Charlie didn’t throw up again.
Glad to see that week behind us!