Sick bugs...

It has been a hard few weeks for Cole.. He has woken up so sick the past two Sundays, (not this last one..) The first Sunday I took him to Instacare because I was certain he had Strep.. He did.. It took him four or five days to recover from that.. The following Saturday night (just a few days later) he was up all night, saying he had a headache.. I was thinking maybe still the strep.. Sunday he just laid on the couch, burning with fever, headache and oh so sad... By 5:00 pm he was so hot and just crying about how bad his head hurt.. So it was off to Instacare yet again.. They were concerned about Meningitis, but after some checking thought it probably wasn't that, but that he was dehydrated. They told us to watch him really close, and if he got worse to take him to the hospital... So I sat up all night with him (lost count as to how many times we did this) just to make sure he was going to be OK... Still sick Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.. Thursday felt better and went to school.. Thursday night he said he didn't feel well and had a cough... Up all night Thursday with fever and cough.. Never moved off the couch all day Friday... His birthday was Saturday and he was OK, but still not Cole.. I had bought him a strawberry bouquet, and he didn't even want any.. That's when you know he is not OK... He didn't want to open his gifts or anything.. He did muster up some energy to go bowling, that was it... :) Sunday was better, and hopefully we are back to the old Cole.. :) NO MORE SICK BUGS!!!! And through all of this with Cole, Jaden and Ryker managed to get Croup... Jade lost his voice (which was nice for a few days) and that was about it.. Ryker on the other hand was so so sick.. It was so sad... Poor baby.   We are ready for summer and healthy kiddos.. :)

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It really has not been the best of weeks for us.. Seems like one thing after another after another, and tonight this mom IS pooped.... Just a few recaps of the past few weeks... Ten days ago Troy started getting cankers and just not feeling good, he has always gotten cankers, they usually hurt 4 or so days and feel better... This time he had 30+ on his tongue and lips... HORRID!! Not to mention he had major allergies... YUCK!! We were thinking by Monday or Tuesday he would be feeling better.... In the mean time Jade got sick on Saturday, puking a few times, diarrhea, you know the fun stuff... But by Sunday he seemed fine... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday he complained off and on that his tummy hurt and still had some diarrhea, but seemed fine... Being the great mom I am I figured he was fine... :) Back to Troy, by Wednesday night he was shaking from the pain in his mouth, he hadn't slept, ate or even really functioned for days... I had begged him all week to go to the Dr. but of course he wouldn't go. I finally called his mom and begged her to get him to go, and being the the great mom she was, she told him either I could take him or she would... So I took him in that night... 3 hours later, he had some Percocet for the pain (after I made him ask for some..) He was actually amazed how much it helped his pain (DUH..) I am so happy he was able to get something to kill the pain for a bit, it was just awful watching him suffer.. Hopefully he is now on the mend, but it was pretty horrific... Back to Jade, while I was with Troy Wednesday night, Jade threw up again... UGH... Nothing really horrible though other than the bad tummy ache... By late Thursday he was screaming from the pain... All night Thursday, crying, would not eat, or drink... All day Friday would not eat or drink... By Friday night I could tell that he was pretty bad, so Troy and I took him in... The Dr. immediately ordered a full bag of IV fluids... Told him after he ate a Popsicle or drank juice he could go home, he wanted no part of it... So she would not take out the IV.. Sent us home with it, and back Saturday for another round of IVs.... Mind you he had not peed for like 36 hours, with 2 bags of IV fluids in him... So scary... FINALLY last night he peed.... He drank here and there, and has finally started to get an appetite back... Today woke up with a fever, UGH!!! But by noon was almost back to his funny little self... And no fever.... I am so tired, and my sympathy meter is almost non existence.... What a whirlwind of the past few weeks... I am praying for a better week and for my baby to feel better... :) Thankful for great friends and amazing family... My sweet mom came today to take the older kids (didn't even ask her, she just showed up and said I am taking them,) so Jade and I could get some sleep... I needed that more than she will ever know.. Going for 5 days with no sleep is killer.... I tried to sleep when he slept but I was so worried about him, no such luck... :) Sorry for such a long post, probably lost everyone mid post, it was so boring.. :) A few pictures of his week...

He was so brave getting his IV, not one tear.. :)

Being so brave...

Loving the "warm" blankets... :)

He was so proud of his "cast," loved showing it off...

Day 2 of IVs, still never lost his sense of humor... :)

Sorry don't have any pictures of Troy's mouth... I couldn't even look at them, they made me cringe in pain.. ;)