Welcome to the House of Flu
Well, it has been quite a week , actually it's been quite the two weeks! Let's see where to start...
Last Sunday Hayden found a piece of an Electrasol dishwasher tablet on the ground and thought it was a piece of candy. Justin found half of it still in his mouth and immediately called poison control. They recommened going to the ER who then recommended that he be observed overnight in the hospital because of the caustic level of the tablet. It was an 11 on the PH scale. He ended up having to have a GI scope done to rule out any damage to his tummy. Everything was fine and we ended up getting to go home the next day.
So the week goes on and we're starting to get back into the swing of things when Roland comes down with a fever on Friday. Several of his friends at school have been sick with a virus so we don't really worry to much about it. He runs a fever all weekend and finally things start to get really bad Monday night. We hear him up in his room laughing hysterically at 1am. Justin asks him whats going on and he tells us about all of the silly things he is seeing in his room. We figure out that he is hallucinating and he feels really hot. So I take his temp (104.2). Hmmm. We get him up and try to get him coherent and he can barely walk. We decide it's best to take him to the ER because he is just acting so strangely. Boy am I glad we did! When we got there he had a fever of 106.2. The triage nurse immediately gave him a bunch of tylenol and got him into a bed. They did a flu test and lo and behold - he is positive. We get his fever down and we come home. Well, when we get home Hayden is now up and he is also running a fever. His fever got up to 104 at one point, but we got him on Tamiflu early on so he is handling the flu much better than Roland.
Wednesday I started feeling really crummy - body aches, nausea, etc. So I went to the urgent care clinic up the street and got tested. Yep - now I've got the flu. Ugh! What's crazy is that we all got the flu shot! I guess we are in that 10 - 20% that it doesn't work for.
So, that's our crazy past two weeks. Lots of doctors, prescriptions, Kleenex and TLC. Here are a few pictures of the boys that I took- and no you may not see a picture of me with the flu. :)
Last Sunday Hayden found a piece of an Electrasol dishwasher tablet on the ground and thought it was a piece of candy. Justin found half of it still in his mouth and immediately called poison control. They recommened going to the ER who then recommended that he be observed overnight in the hospital because of the caustic level of the tablet. It was an 11 on the PH scale. He ended up having to have a GI scope done to rule out any damage to his tummy. Everything was fine and we ended up getting to go home the next day.
So the week goes on and we're starting to get back into the swing of things when Roland comes down with a fever on Friday. Several of his friends at school have been sick with a virus so we don't really worry to much about it. He runs a fever all weekend and finally things start to get really bad Monday night. We hear him up in his room laughing hysterically at 1am. Justin asks him whats going on and he tells us about all of the silly things he is seeing in his room. We figure out that he is hallucinating and he feels really hot. So I take his temp (104.2). Hmmm. We get him up and try to get him coherent and he can barely walk. We decide it's best to take him to the ER because he is just acting so strangely. Boy am I glad we did! When we got there he had a fever of 106.2. The triage nurse immediately gave him a bunch of tylenol and got him into a bed. They did a flu test and lo and behold - he is positive. We get his fever down and we come home. Well, when we get home Hayden is now up and he is also running a fever. His fever got up to 104 at one point, but we got him on Tamiflu early on so he is handling the flu much better than Roland.
Wednesday I started feeling really crummy - body aches, nausea, etc. So I went to the urgent care clinic up the street and got tested. Yep - now I've got the flu. Ugh! What's crazy is that we all got the flu shot! I guess we are in that 10 - 20% that it doesn't work for.
So, that's our crazy past two weeks. Lots of doctors, prescriptions, Kleenex and TLC. Here are a few pictures of the boys that I took- and no you may not see a picture of me with the flu. :)
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