Total family tallies from THE bug:
2 kids on antibiotics
1 severe case of tonsilitis
6 infected ears
5 ruptured ear drums
4 days of school missed
24 children's ibuprofin chewables
20 tylenol meltaways
8 dayquil gelcaps
3 sick visit co-pays
10 hours of lost wages
1 trip to school to pick up sick kids
highest fever: 103.2
most days with a fever above 100 degrees: 3
5 hours of movies watched
2 puzzles completed
15 books read
3 boxes of tissues (before we switched to just using toilet paper rolls!)
AND Hannah never got sick!!! We've decided to sell her immune system to Pfizer and make millions of dollars!
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
A Day In the Life...
Yesterday morning:
5AM- Wake up start coffee; do my devotions and prayer time
5:30- drink coffee while checking emails.
6AM -wake up girls; realize we are almost out of both milk and cereal; start to make lunches for Sam, Rachel and Samantha; discover last loaf of bread has gone moldy and put it aside for the chickens; add bread, milk, and cereal to grocery list under "cold meds" and half & half; make peanut butter crackers for lunches. Nathalie informs me she feels bad: sore throat and ear ache; her temp is 102; Sam checks her throat and says call the Pediatrician; dose Nathalie with tylenol.
6:30- get girls moving towards animals; say goodbye to Sam; add dog food to the list after Abby tells me we are nearly out.
7:00- Get Rachel and Samantha ready for school while printing out the homeschool assignment pages.
7:30- dose Rachel and Samantha with cough meds before getting them out the door for the bus with Hannah.
8:00- Get dressed.
8:30- Start trying to get through to pediatrician.
8:40- get an appointment for Nathalie for 11:30.
8:50- out the door for Abby and Hannah's dentist appointment, bank, and grocery store.
8:52- Add gas station to list as a priority!
9:10- Pulling into the gas station figure on putting in 15 gallons of gas; while pumping in the bitter cold and wind, only put in 5 gallons!
10:30- done with dentist, etc.; stop by Dunkin donuts for a coffee, bagel and three donuts. Nathalie doesn't eat hers; Now I know she REALLY doesn't feel well.
11:15-arrive at Pediatricians
11:30- get seen; Left tonsil is grossly larger than right; Dr. is concerned about an abscess. Strep test is negative. Sends us to Ear Nose and Throat guy who THANKFULLY can fit us in right away.
12:05- At ENT; numb Nat up and withdraw fluid from her tonsil; no abscess. Prescription for pain and antibiotics. Orders for Lab to do strep test and mono screen.
12:30- Call Sam at work from ENT office (I don't own a cell phone) so he can call my job to tell them I will be about 20 minutes late.
12:50- Pick up prescriptions
1:20- arrive at work with the three girls still with me. Nat's fever is back up to 102.6; Call Sam at work and ask him to come home, pick up the three girls, drop Abby and Hannah at home to get Rachel and Samantha off the bus and to bring Nathalie to the lab to get the lab work done.
2:45- Sam arrives and gets girls.
3:00- Boy at work gets fever; gets sent home.
5:15- Everyone is picked up and I head home
5:35- Eat dinner (notice: first real meal of the day!), assess Nathalie, Rachel is complaining her ear hurts; give her a rice sock (homemade heating pad). Sam informs me that when he got home at 3-ish the back door had blown open and the house was a crisp 52 degrees with the furnace running full blast. He goes on to tell me that through this little event he has discovered that something is wrong with the thermostat in our room, as despite the frigid temperature the heat never kicked on for that zone.
6:00- go through mail; work on taxes; Due to a major mistake on our part we are going to owe more than I can pay.
6:40- leave for 4H Fair meeting; Nat stays home. At meeting Rachel starts crying that her ear really hurts. Abby blasts through the meeting and we are out of there by 8:15.
8:30- Rachel gets Tylenol and goes to bed; Samantha gets cough med and goes to bed. Hannah goes to bed.
9PM- I go to bed
9:30- Sam comes to bed and wakes me with his coughing and settling in.
10:30- Rachel is crying in her sleep. Wake her and give her more pain meds and reheat her sock.
1:30AM- Abby wakes me and her ear hurts too. Get her pain meds and rice sock.
4AM- Abby is crying in the bathroom because her ear hurts. Get her more pain meds. Sam is coughing.
4:30- Give up on sleep and get up.
5AM- Wake up start coffee; do my devotions and prayer time
5:30- drink coffee while checking emails.
6AM -wake up girls; realize we are almost out of both milk and cereal; start to make lunches for Sam, Rachel and Samantha; discover last loaf of bread has gone moldy and put it aside for the chickens; add bread, milk, and cereal to grocery list under "cold meds" and half & half; make peanut butter crackers for lunches. Nathalie informs me she feels bad: sore throat and ear ache; her temp is 102; Sam checks her throat and says call the Pediatrician; dose Nathalie with tylenol.
6:30- get girls moving towards animals; say goodbye to Sam; add dog food to the list after Abby tells me we are nearly out.
7:00- Get Rachel and Samantha ready for school while printing out the homeschool assignment pages.
7:30- dose Rachel and Samantha with cough meds before getting them out the door for the bus with Hannah.
8:00- Get dressed.
8:30- Start trying to get through to pediatrician.
8:40- get an appointment for Nathalie for 11:30.
8:50- out the door for Abby and Hannah's dentist appointment, bank, and grocery store.
8:52- Add gas station to list as a priority!
9:10- Pulling into the gas station figure on putting in 15 gallons of gas; while pumping in the bitter cold and wind, only put in 5 gallons!
10:30- done with dentist, etc.; stop by Dunkin donuts for a coffee, bagel and three donuts. Nathalie doesn't eat hers; Now I know she REALLY doesn't feel well.
11:15-arrive at Pediatricians
11:30- get seen; Left tonsil is grossly larger than right; Dr. is concerned about an abscess. Strep test is negative. Sends us to Ear Nose and Throat guy who THANKFULLY can fit us in right away.
12:05- At ENT; numb Nat up and withdraw fluid from her tonsil; no abscess. Prescription for pain and antibiotics. Orders for Lab to do strep test and mono screen.
12:30- Call Sam at work from ENT office (I don't own a cell phone) so he can call my job to tell them I will be about 20 minutes late.
12:50- Pick up prescriptions
1:20- arrive at work with the three girls still with me. Nat's fever is back up to 102.6; Call Sam at work and ask him to come home, pick up the three girls, drop Abby and Hannah at home to get Rachel and Samantha off the bus and to bring Nathalie to the lab to get the lab work done.
2:45- Sam arrives and gets girls.
3:00- Boy at work gets fever; gets sent home.
5:15- Everyone is picked up and I head home
5:35- Eat dinner (notice: first real meal of the day!), assess Nathalie, Rachel is complaining her ear hurts; give her a rice sock (homemade heating pad). Sam informs me that when he got home at 3-ish the back door had blown open and the house was a crisp 52 degrees with the furnace running full blast. He goes on to tell me that through this little event he has discovered that something is wrong with the thermostat in our room, as despite the frigid temperature the heat never kicked on for that zone.
6:00- go through mail; work on taxes; Due to a major mistake on our part we are going to owe more than I can pay.
6:40- leave for 4H Fair meeting; Nat stays home. At meeting Rachel starts crying that her ear really hurts. Abby blasts through the meeting and we are out of there by 8:15.
8:30- Rachel gets Tylenol and goes to bed; Samantha gets cough med and goes to bed. Hannah goes to bed.
9PM- I go to bed
9:30- Sam comes to bed and wakes me with his coughing and settling in.
10:30- Rachel is crying in her sleep. Wake her and give her more pain meds and reheat her sock.
1:30AM- Abby wakes me and her ear hurts too. Get her pain meds and rice sock.
4AM- Abby is crying in the bathroom because her ear hurts. Get her more pain meds. Sam is coughing.
4:30- Give up on sleep and get up.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
4H and THE Bug
Sam was hired for the 4H position! He starts officially on February 13th. In true 4H fashion, they have told him to expect it to take up to six weeks for his first paycheck and the other items necessary for the job (laptop, keys, promotion materials). It looks like it is going to be a very fun position. One of the objectives is to create and "After-school" 4H club at the Dolphin Center. Sam is looking forward to it because these clubs will be centered around projects that (for the most part) don't involve animals. He will be promoting 4H's new initiative: Science, Engineering, and Technology (a.k.a. SET).
Rachel and Samantha are over their fevers but are still hanging on to their coughs. Sam checked Nathalie thsi morning and announced he's 99.9% sure she has strep. So somehow between two dentist appointments at 9:30 and 10:00, dropping off paperwork at the 4H office, buying bread (cause the last loaf which I opened this morning was moldy!!!), and work at 1:00, I'll need to squeeze in a run to East Lyme with her.
Hannah and I are the only ones who haven't been sick. Sam is hacking but no fever, and Abby is very stuffed up and coughing, but no fever. Whatever this thing is, it is nasty! The day care was really quiet with a lot of kids out because they or their parents are sick.
Rachel and Samantha are over their fevers but are still hanging on to their coughs. Sam checked Nathalie thsi morning and announced he's 99.9% sure she has strep. So somehow between two dentist appointments at 9:30 and 10:00, dropping off paperwork at the 4H office, buying bread (cause the last loaf which I opened this morning was moldy!!!), and work at 1:00, I'll need to squeeze in a run to East Lyme with her.
Hannah and I are the only ones who haven't been sick. Sam is hacking but no fever, and Abby is very stuffed up and coughing, but no fever. Whatever this thing is, it is nasty! The day care was really quiet with a lot of kids out because they or their parents are sick.
Monday, February 2, 2009
THE Bug
We've got the BUG. Rachel started on Sunday morning. She was complaining of having a headache after breakfast so we gave her some tylenol and went on with our morning routine. About 20 minutes before we had to leave for church she threw up. Everywhere. Not a spot between her room and the bathroom did she miss. So we took her temperature: 102.7. Guess she wasn't being melodramatic!
So I stayed home with her and cleaned up the mess, while Sam took the other girls to church. Rachel slept the whole time. After lunch Sam stayed home with Rachel while I went with the other girls to my Dad's birthday party.
About an hour into the party I notice that samantha is being unusually quiet. I quietly feel her forehead and she is quite warm. When we got back home, her temp was a toasty 102.
Sam and I start trying to figure out how we are both going to go to work in the morning, as he can't call in sick and it is too late in the evening for me to try and find someone to fill in for me. It is decided that when I get to work I will start looking for a replacement. Thankfully my boss was understanding and flexible enough to change her plans for her day off and fill in for me. So I am home and both girls still have fevers of 101. Hopefully it will break soon!
So I stayed home with her and cleaned up the mess, while Sam took the other girls to church. Rachel slept the whole time. After lunch Sam stayed home with Rachel while I went with the other girls to my Dad's birthday party.
About an hour into the party I notice that samantha is being unusually quiet. I quietly feel her forehead and she is quite warm. When we got back home, her temp was a toasty 102.
Sam and I start trying to figure out how we are both going to go to work in the morning, as he can't call in sick and it is too late in the evening for me to try and find someone to fill in for me. It is decided that when I get to work I will start looking for a replacement. Thankfully my boss was understanding and flexible enough to change her plans for her day off and fill in for me. So I am home and both girls still have fevers of 101. Hopefully it will break soon!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Still Sick
Sam said he lay awake Monday morning listen to my wheezing and that if I didn't go to the doctor he was taking me to the hospital.... I went to the doctor. I have a sinus infection, so I am on antibiotics for that. My wheezing is the worst it has been in over three years so I am on prednisone for that. I have orders to "take it easy" and "not over do it". Good thing I am going to mom's for Thanksgiving!
So I have been sitting at the computer working on geneaology for other people. It's interesting what you can learn about other families and about hisotry. It's also kind of scary how much you can find with just a few pieces of information to work with and some genealogical know-how.
I should be getting Christmas sewing done, but since I still can't stop blowing my nose, that is out. Can you imagine? Ewwww!!
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
So I have been sitting at the computer working on geneaology for other people. It's interesting what you can learn about other families and about hisotry. It's also kind of scary how much you can find with just a few pieces of information to work with and some genealogical know-how.
I should be getting Christmas sewing done, but since I still can't stop blowing my nose, that is out. Can you imagine? Ewwww!!
Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sick
What began on Saturday morning as a sniffle has now blossomed into a full-blown nasty head cold! While I am thankful it has steered clear of my lungs, I really wish I could walk further than two feet from a box of tissues. In fact I have given up on the box and now just walk around with a roll of toilet paper. It lasts longer than the box.
Last night as a I sat reading and blowing my nose every 30 seconds, Abby came in with a card for me. It was a get well card with the message that I could sleep in the next morning. She would get up and get everyone going. I noticed that all the girls had signed the card, except that Nathalie's signature was really small and squished in the corner with an illegibly scrawled note beside it.
Me: (blowing my nose) "Abby what does this say near Nathalie's name?"
Abby: "I don't know." (Translation: she has an inkling but doesn't want to admit that whatever it is, she played a part in it.)
Me: "Nathalie, what does this say?" (Blowing my nose, again)
Nat: "It says..." (She has this really emabrrassed uncomfortable look on her face) "... 'I do not want to sign this'. Abby said we had to sign it and she was being bossy."
Abby: "I said she 'needed' to sign it. I didn't force her to sign it."
Me: "ARRRGGG! Abby go heat up the beef stew. Nathalie go set the table. Thanks for the Get well card." (Blowing my nose again)
Last night as a I sat reading and blowing my nose every 30 seconds, Abby came in with a card for me. It was a get well card with the message that I could sleep in the next morning. She would get up and get everyone going. I noticed that all the girls had signed the card, except that Nathalie's signature was really small and squished in the corner with an illegibly scrawled note beside it.
Me: (blowing my nose) "Abby what does this say near Nathalie's name?"
Abby: "I don't know." (Translation: she has an inkling but doesn't want to admit that whatever it is, she played a part in it.)
Me: "Nathalie, what does this say?" (Blowing my nose, again)
Nat: "It says..." (She has this really emabrrassed uncomfortable look on her face) "... 'I do not want to sign this'. Abby said we had to sign it and she was being bossy."
Abby: "I said she 'needed' to sign it. I didn't force her to sign it."
Me: "ARRRGGG! Abby go heat up the beef stew. Nathalie go set the table. Thanks for the Get well card." (Blowing my nose again)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Day Three
Samantha awoke at 2AM with an earache and thinking it was morning she tried to wake her sisters to get them to help her heat up her "sock" (sock with rice in it that when heated in microwave and held to the ear eases ear pain). Since her sisters were sound asleep, none of them responded and so Samantha reacted in typical Samantha fashion: wailing and, because she is not feeling well, coughing. Well those things to a sleeping parent sound just like a small child throwing up. I got her settled in with her sock and went back to bed.
6AM Sam leaves for the firehouse
6:30 all children are up and are eating breakfast. Thankfully no more chicks have died.
9 AM I have made all my phone calls, except the one to the chicken hatchery. I have cancelled my dentist appointment yet again, since I can't breathe though my nose and the idea of drowning on my own saliva just isn't appealing (at least not yet).
10AM Hatchery phone call is made: a total of 8 chicks out of 44 have died. Not too bad; some years we have had a 50% loss. The girls are working on school. My two public schooled children who beg to be homeschooled every other day, reluctantly settle in to some reading and writing projects.
I start on filling out all the paperwork from last night's Public Speaking competition. One of the questions: How can we encourage more 4H'ers to participate. My answer: NOOOOOOO! We had 24 speakers and three no shows. My 4H club alone has 29 kids. We would have to set aside an entire Saturday to get through them all!
10:30 put on an educational movie about the US Constitution: "A More Perfect Union". It's actually pretty entertaining and the girls enjoyed it.
11:30 pile everyone in the van to drop Hannah off at her friend's house, go to the library, and head into Norwich to drop off the 4H paperwork. I would have accomplished more errands but Rachel started throwing up while we were at the library.
12:30 Arrive home, put Rachel in bed with a bucket, make lunch, remind Abby to write her story for Lebanon Life, and start some laundry.
2PM Nathalie and Samantha (who is feeling better), get picked up to go to their friend's house.
3PM Rachel wakes up and as she continues to throw up tells me how hungry she is! She requests to watch the Constitution movie again. How could I say no? So I set her up on the couch with her bucket to watch the movie. I think that was around the time the phone started ringing off the hook:
Donna: Beautiful kidd born
Sam: working overtime
Beth: Can the girls stay a bit longer?
Sales call
5PM: dinner
8PM settle in to watch TV until the Eclipse.
9PM to 10:45 wake Nathalie and Abby to watch the eclipse. I decided to let Rachel and Samantha sleep. They can catch the one in 2010.
11PM watch the news and then go to bed.
6AM Sam leaves for the firehouse
6:30 all children are up and are eating breakfast. Thankfully no more chicks have died.
9 AM I have made all my phone calls, except the one to the chicken hatchery. I have cancelled my dentist appointment yet again, since I can't breathe though my nose and the idea of drowning on my own saliva just isn't appealing (at least not yet).
10AM Hatchery phone call is made: a total of 8 chicks out of 44 have died. Not too bad; some years we have had a 50% loss. The girls are working on school. My two public schooled children who beg to be homeschooled every other day, reluctantly settle in to some reading and writing projects.
I start on filling out all the paperwork from last night's Public Speaking competition. One of the questions: How can we encourage more 4H'ers to participate. My answer: NOOOOOOO! We had 24 speakers and three no shows. My 4H club alone has 29 kids. We would have to set aside an entire Saturday to get through them all!
10:30 put on an educational movie about the US Constitution: "A More Perfect Union". It's actually pretty entertaining and the girls enjoyed it.
11:30 pile everyone in the van to drop Hannah off at her friend's house, go to the library, and head into Norwich to drop off the 4H paperwork. I would have accomplished more errands but Rachel started throwing up while we were at the library.
12:30 Arrive home, put Rachel in bed with a bucket, make lunch, remind Abby to write her story for Lebanon Life, and start some laundry.
2PM Nathalie and Samantha (who is feeling better), get picked up to go to their friend's house.
3PM Rachel wakes up and as she continues to throw up tells me how hungry she is! She requests to watch the Constitution movie again. How could I say no? So I set her up on the couch with her bucket to watch the movie. I think that was around the time the phone started ringing off the hook:
Donna: Beautiful kidd born
Sam: working overtime
Beth: Can the girls stay a bit longer?
Sales call
5PM: dinner
8PM settle in to watch TV until the Eclipse.
9PM to 10:45 wake Nathalie and Abby to watch the eclipse. I decided to let Rachel and Samantha sleep. They can catch the one in 2010.
11PM watch the news and then go to bed.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
"THE BUG"
You know it has been a long two weeks of children with the stomach bug, when it is 2 AM and you can hear a child throwing up and your first thought is: "Please be an older child who has managed to get themselves to the toilet."
No such luck though. Six year old Samantha managed to get her bed, the floor of her room, the hall, the bathroom floor, the side of the toilet and trace amounts into the toilet. The good news: Hannah, Rachel and Samantha had cleaned their room last night and so I don't have a mountain of laundry, stuffed animals and school books to clean up!
Only one kid has managed to not be sick yet. Rachel will probably fall any day now though.
Looks like Hannah's birthday party will be pushed back, yet again. Poor kid, not only does her birthday have to be stuck in between Thanksgiving and Christmas, now she has to keep waiting for everyone to be healthy. The thought has crossed my mind though: My parents have already had the bug; we could have the party anyway... I wonder if Mom would go for it....?
No such luck though. Six year old Samantha managed to get her bed, the floor of her room, the hall, the bathroom floor, the side of the toilet and trace amounts into the toilet. The good news: Hannah, Rachel and Samantha had cleaned their room last night and so I don't have a mountain of laundry, stuffed animals and school books to clean up!
Only one kid has managed to not be sick yet. Rachel will probably fall any day now though.
Looks like Hannah's birthday party will be pushed back, yet again. Poor kid, not only does her birthday have to be stuck in between Thanksgiving and Christmas, now she has to keep waiting for everyone to be healthy. The thought has crossed my mind though: My parents have already had the bug; we could have the party anyway... I wonder if Mom would go for it....?
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