As Fevers Go...

Now here’s Tuesday.  What a long few days...

Madison was hit by fevers yesterday, high ones.  Considering she’s my healthy kid and rarely gets sick; let alone, has fevers...that was disconcerting.  I kept battling back against the fevers in an attempt to stay ahead of this crap attacking my kids.  Sometime around ten her fever broke, thank goodness.  She’s had a sore throat most of the day, and her head pain has begun to ease off, so she’s thinking maybe she can get back into school tomorrow.  Sydney’s fevers have been controlled by the medicine she is taking trying to combat the sore throat and headaches.  She had a fever earlier, but seems to have them back in control.  Sydney will stay home with me again tomorrow and hopefully, the fever will work it’s way out of her tomorrow and she can get back to school on Thursday.

The good news: blisters haven’t come popping up on either of them.  I’m still doctoring and watching Bradley.  The blisters have all taken on a flat quality, no longer having scabs over the top like they had been which is a relief.  He’s been fever free for almost two days, which is a huge relief.  He was also less lethargic today, a lot less.  This morning he let me know he wanted a shower, so we did that. After we got him dressed, he wanted to have a popsicle, so he got that and then yogurt...while I was cleaning up, he took off down the hall and while I waited and wondered, he came trotting back down the hallway carrying his IronMan costume.  So I helped him into his custome...then we had to find socks, shoes, and of course his gloves.  From there, he was busy with setting up his Go-Go Smart cars, playing with his McQueen cars, and all of his different tiles and blocks.

He wasn’t interested in any food other than popsicles and rainbow sherbet.  He might actually just prefer the sherbet over the popsicles.  Now THAT is amazing.  I absolutely never thought we would ever find something he’d prefer over popsicles.  Who knew?  We figure his throat is still a bit sore...so, I let him eat as much of the cold stuff as he wanted to help with that.

We’re headed to Santa Barbara tomorrow for a GI appointment for Sydney, by default Bradley has to tag along.  Since he would have to picked up early, we’re going to keep him out of school until Thursday.  I am hoping that the blisters fade even more throughout tomorrow.  Either way, he needs more rest and healing time so it works out well.  Since his teacher is also sick tomorrow, it’s probably best that after this long off being sick, he returns on the same day she does.  So we’re going to try Thursday and as long as Bradley and his health comply, then all will be well.  We shall see.

My hope is that by Thursday, all my chicks are healthy and happy again.  Get them back to school, they can get the homework they need to make up, and spend the weekend catching up.  Steps back towards a more usual life in our house.  Well, as usual as our house gets rather.  But I’ll take it for sure.

Now to make sure I publish this one and get Day 23 in the books.  ;-). Sigh...  Who knows, Thursday might turn out to be a rest day for Mom.  Hmmm...  😉