I knocked on wood...

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend, and was saying how healthy my kids are. "Knock on wood, we've been healthy all winter."

I should know better than to do such a stupid thing! ;)

Sunday morning, we woke up with Chloe coughing up a lung, and not feeling so hot. We decided to stay home from church and just let her rest a bit. That whole day she laid around, so we knew she was pretty sick. She had a low-grade fever, and just wasn't feeling like herself.

Monday morning, we decided to keep her home from school, even though she said she was feeling much better. Because of the fever the day before though, I thought it would be good for her to stay home and rest. She felt pretty good all day - just a bit of a cough. In the middle of the night on Monday, the fever returned, as did the continual coughing. Owen was also up in the middle of the night vomiting. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep.

Again on Tuesday, she stayed home from school and we fought with the fever all day. Thank God, Owen was just fine!!! After her "mandatory" nap on Tuesday, she woke up with a fever of 102.5! About an hour after giving her Motrin, the fever was still hovering at 102. I called the doctor. I had heard that a fever virus was going around, but the cough worried me just a bit. She told me to go ahead and come in on Wednesday morning. She again was up all night coughing, and we fought with the fever again. It was pretty tiring, to say the least.

Wednesday morning the fever "appeared" to be gone. I actually debated canceling the doctor appointment that I had made the previous day. Boy oh boy am I glad that I went to that appointment. Turns out, her lungs were "wet" and because she is an "old asthmatic" the doctor wanted to go ahead and check her lungs for pneumonia. So, we head over to the hospital and get a chest x-ray and head right back to the doctor's office to read it. Thank God - NO PNEUMONIA! She does have bronchiolitis though. Nothing an antibiotic and some breathing treatments won't fix! :)

Wednesday night was the worst night all week!! My baby girl coughed and coughed and coughed and coughed...her fever also returned. I was at my wits end. I had given her a breathing treatment, Motrin for the fever and Benadryl for her to go to sleep - nothing was helping. I finally thought to take her into the bathroom and turn on a hot shower. She was not too happy about getting out of her bed, but I had to give it a try! So about 12:30a.m., there we were sitting in the steamy bathroom. Brett peaked his head into the bathroom and asked if he could sit with us. I said, "Sure! Take a seat!" He sat down on the Lightning McQueen step stool and we talked about the lake, pooters, (I know!) tubing, building sand castles, etc... It was actually a nice time, believe it or not! :) Unfortunately, the shower didn't work so well. She coughed and coughed. Finally about 2:30 I gave her another dose of Benadryl and she FINALLY fell into a deep sleep - and so did I! :D

It's now Thursday. It appears the fever is gone, but it's played this trick on me before. The coughing seems under control and she's ready to go back to school. (The doc said to keep her home until Monday) I'm just praying that it stays GONE! I need sleep tonight!!!

I'm off to make lunch and put EVERYONE (including me!) down for a nap!!!!