The never ending sickness..

I think my 10 year Old Son said it best "Mom I think we're all allergic to the cold weather. Whenever it gets cold outside we get sick. We just need to move back to Florida where it's nice and warm". Oh don't mind if we do.

This time it was my 5 yr old Son that got sick. He started out complaining of being tired and cold on his field trip to the Pumpkin Patch with his Kindergarten class.

He kept telling me he was cold and wanted to go home, but I had to tell him we couldn't just leave. We had to wait for the School bus and go back to School with his class. 

The minute we came home he told me he wanted to nap. (So unusual for him since he never naps)

He slept for over 3 hours and still went to bed at 8 pm that night. At 3am I get a tap on my shoulder and a "Mom, I have a headache, can I have some medicine?" I felt the heat radiating from his body and knew he was sick. What worried me wasn't that he had a fever of almost 103 it was that he woke up with a headache. He has had these headaches almost every single day (after school) and would ask for Tylenol.

I made a mental note to call the Pediatrician as soon as I could.

Nick was fever-ish all night, but at 7:30 am fever was gone and he felt better. I sent him to school with his Sister, but knew that sometime during the day I would get a phone call.

1:30pm I get a call at work that Nick has a fever and is extremely lethargic. I left work in a hurry and found him at the Nurses office looking as white as a Ghost. I made an appointment with the Pediatrician that afternoon.

We seen a different Pediatrician than we usually see and she took one look at Nick and knew he was sick.

She asked so many questions and checked him out. Her recommendation was to take Nick to the ER.

Due to his many headaches, he was so lethargic and his really bad cough.

We spent 5 hours at the local ER where they did a CT scan,  took a bunch of tests and kept him under observation until they felt comfortable to send him home. We were told that he possibly had a strand of the Flu, Strep Throat and croup. Whoa!! Nothing like getting everything  at once. I felt so bad for him, but knew that he was under the care of great doctors. (He was given steroids at the ER)

Luckily his CT scan came up clear and they think the headaches are all sinus related (Just like me). I need to get him a referral to a ENT to get him checked for allergies to alleviate him from having these headaches. My poor Baby.

 

Now 3 days later he's doing much better, but is still a little tired and has a god awful cough.

We also just realized he has a loose tooth and a new tooth behind the one that is loose.

He is now begging me to pull the loose tooth so he can put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. :)

Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed my other 2 kids don't get sick..