Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Sickness

One of the great joys of having older kids is that we now have built in babysitters.  Kevin and I go out on a date about once a week.

So on Dec. 26th, we took off for a date around dinner time.  Kevin has been sick for a couple of weeks with a nasty cough, and I joked that we could have a date at Urgent Care. After a minute or 2, he said he thought that was a good idea.  So off we went to Urgent Care. He had noticeable asthma symptoms and sounds in one part of his lungs that indicated pneumonia.

Kevin is now on antibiotics and steroids and is slowly improving, but his cough is still there and he isn't sleeping well.

Several other kids have already gotten through this respiratory illness (without the pneumonia, thankfully) and a couple more are now hacking away.

I got a touch of it, but without the cough. Thankfully.

So yeah, we're sick.  It isn't the way we wanted to spend Kevin's vacation, but it is what it is.

Rose has mostly been fine.  I am thankful, but she is her usual ball of fire so requires a lot of oversight. Right now she is trying to climb on a rolling chair and then climb on a high chair tray from the rolling chair.

And NOW she is having a tantrum because I took away the rolling chair and stuck it in another room.  Mean Mommy.




1 comment:

Sarah said...

Both times when I've pneumonia it took months for the cough to totally go away and even sometimes I still have little coughing spells that may or may not be related to the after effects of the pneumonia - thankfully with getting healthier I haven't gotten it this year :) Sorry you all are dealing with respiratory stuff - ours is just sinus related with all this crazy back and forth weather.