It has been a doozy of a week!

This week has been interesting to say the least...

Monday: 
   I had a doctor's appointment in Price, bright and early (8:50am) so we had to be up and going and I had to leave the same time as John, 7:30am.  I had my glucose test (Can I just say that since they took the carbonation out of that drink that it is even nastier now?? Yuck!!) which was the reason for the early appointment.  I had to be fasting for it and the only other appointment was at 4 in the afternoon.  After the doctor's appointment (everything was fine--measuring where I should, heartbeat of the baby was normal, a little depressing weight gain, but I got word the next day that my test was normal) we picked up some things at Walmart and headed home.  We were pulling into town at 12:45pm, Eli was sleeping and I thought to myself that I should be able to put him in his bed to finish his nap, get things put away, and still have some time to do a few things before the kids came home from school. Boy was I wrong!  I heard a funny noise behind me, and looked to see what it was.  Eli was emptying his stomach all over the place (sound familiar Dad, Mom, and Adrienne? Leah did the same thing as they pulled in my driveway for Morgan's baptism. lol).  I groaned knowing the mess that awaited me when we got home.  At least I didn't have to smell it for long, and it was contained to his carseat so I just had to throw it in the wash.  I wouldn't be cleaning carpets in the house!  Eli and Micah both get carsick, so I wasn't sure if it was that, or if he was sick.  Carsickness usually doesn't happen for them between here and Price or Grand Junction--only through Mountain passes.(Can't wait for the trip over Indian Canyon to Vernal in two weeks--warm up your washer Mom!)  Eli was pretty clingy the rest of the afternoon, but around dinner time started acting normal again.  I didn't think more of it until after brushing his teeth and giving him his flouride pill to chew up, he ran back in the living room to where John and the kids were.  I then heard John yelling to bring a rag--Eli had just thrown up.  It wasn't much this time, and John said he thought he choked on his pill a little.  He didn't have a fever and was fine again, so we decided just to keep an eye on him and see what happend the next day.

Tuesday:
   I stayed home from exercising at the church just as a precaucion and walked on my treadmill at home.  Eli ate breakfast fine, and was acting like himself.  We showered, and after getting the boys dressed, turned to getting myself ready for the day.  Eli came back in the bathroom with throw up on his legs.  Again, it wasn't much, and I don't know what he was doing, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the house.  Weird.  Nothing happened the rest of the day, so I figured we were out of the woods with that one.  I had heard some stomach thing was going around, so that must have been it.

Wednesday:
   I had an appointment at the clinic to get Eli's immunizations finished up that our insurance didn't cover at his 18 month appointment the end of January.  (I was going to do this in Price at the Health Dept. on Monday, but they only do immunizations from 3-5pm, Mon.-Thurs., no acceptions.  My appointment was over by 9:00am, and I didn't want to wait around until 3. I called our clinic here in Green River and was told they couldn't give us the cheap shots because we have insurance, but the immunization he needed was only 46.00 with a 10.00 admin. fee, and we are on the sliding scale, so we'd only have to pay half that.  John and I figured that it would be worth the 25 or 30 dollars to just come home and have it done here.)  I didn't realize he had to wait for at least 30 days between immunizations for the antibodies that are building up, etc. etc. so he didn't end up getting immunizations.  Kind of a pain, but I did find out that since our insurance doesn't cover all immunizations, that we qualify for "under insured" and they can, in fact, give us the cheap immunizations like at the Health Department. Yea!!  So it wasn't a total loss.  We ran some errands around town, came home and ate lunch, and then I put Eli down for a nap.  He slept for 3 hours, and when he woke up, his eyes were goopy and one of them was red in the outer corner.  Great.  Pink eye has been going around as well. 

Thursday:
   I called the clinic as soon as they opened and got Eli an appointment.  At 11am, we headed to the clinic and got all checked in with the nurse.  She weighed and measured him, took his oxygen level, and put down what his symptoms were.  She was playing with both the boys, and happened to tickle Micah's neck.  She got a puzzled look on her face and checked his lymph nodes.  She said he felt a little swollen and asked if I wanted the PA to look at him.  I said sure, we were already there, no sense making another trip if he did come down with something.  She mentioned there was a weird strain of strep throat going around that did not have the normal strep symptoms.  She checked him into the computer as well, and we waited for the PA. A few minutes later he came in.  He looked over Eli, and said he had pink eye and would give him drops for that.  He said his throat was a little red, and we talked about his symptoms.  They did a strep test on Micah, which came back POSITIVE!!  What??  He had not been acting sick at all!  No fever, sore throat, cough, upset anything!  The PA just laughed when he heard that.  He said it's nothing they've ever seen before.  The symptoms for this strep is Headache, Coughing, and/or Upset Stomach. They put Micah on antibiotics and Eli also because once one in the house has it, the whole family will probally end up with it.  Where Eli has been acting strange and has some of the symptoms, we didn't test him, just treated him.  The PA thanked me for bringing in my perfectly healthy children so they could be diagnosed with strep.  Ha, ha.  He told me if anyone was sicker than Micah, that we might want to bring them in.  Morgan has had a cough since Monday, so I made an appointment for later that afternoon for her.  I picked her up from school about a half hour before it was over and took her into the clinic as well.  She ended up being a little red and swollen on her tonsils, so she is on antibiotics as well.  I decided to just get appointments for the other two boys the next day. (The Health Department had been contacted about the weird strain of strep and they had the school nurse at the high school sending anyone home with a headache, cough, or fever--needless to say, the clinic was extremely busy!)

Friday:
  After school, we headed back to the clinic for they boys appointments.  John decided to come along as well, and just have the whole family checked out. Both boys were put on Antibiotics as a precaution, and John was given the shot.  I am the only one who lucked out without any of the symptoms, so I was not treated.  I think the clinic said they had seen 3 times as many patients in one day. (18 is the norm--you do the math!)  The entire clinic staff ended up with it.  They were having families come in a get treated if there was one person in the house with it.  One of the high school teachers said that they only had 11 of the 28 seventh graders in school, and half of those didn't feel well, so it was a mellow day!  John had 3 kids missing from his class on Friday.  John's afraid that it's just beginning at the Elementary, so it will be interesting to see what happens next week there.

That was our crazy week.  No one really acted all that sick, except Eli at the beginning of the week, but apparantly Strep throat is running rampant through our home.  I was hoping everyone would be feeling much better at this point in time--being on antibiotics and all, but I guess that's not the case.  Ian has developed a cough, and Zander has had a headache since last night that won't go away.  I guess strep isn't the only thing going around! I'm hoping for a healthier week!