Poor Caeden

So this past week has been a long, stressful, overwhelming,overall a sick week!!!! Saturday we ended up taking him in because he was screaming that his ear hurt and sure enough he had an ear infection. Sunday he was feeling much better after having some med's in him. Monday we started with a hospital tour for Caeden's surgery scheduled for Thursday. Tuesday he had school and then we had his pre-op appt. Wed morning he woke up with a little fever and i started to freak out that he wasn't going to have his surgery, the nurse assured me as long as it isn't over 100 he is fine. So we went to Chuckie Cheese that morning with some great friends. At first, Caeden was fine, running around, playing and then he started to go down hill. The rest of the day he was running a fever between 102-103 and complaining about his head hurting and his "leggies" hurting! Again, me being me, freaking out called the nurses line (BTW not impressed!) and told me if probably was just nerves for him going to have surgery the next day. So that whole night I made him sleep with me and he pretty much was up the whole night with a fever and complaining about his body aching! So that morning at 5:00 when we were schedule to get up and leave for surgery, Mike and I are deciding on what to do. Children's West did not open until 6 and we had to be there at 6:30. We decided that he probably would not have surgery and tired to go back to bed. I called at 6:00 and sure enough the nurse said no way and that we might want to take him in, because it sounds like H1N1 symptoms! So again, FREAKING out. Duh, why hadn't I thought of this. I was so wrapped up in this surgery that is all I could think about!

So he had an appt later that day! They did not test him for it because our doctor told us that the test is only 50% accurate, but he said based on Caeden's symptoms he thought he had H1N1!!! So it was too late to put him on Tamaflu, but he put Noah on it(THANK GOD!). I am thinking he caught it from school. There has now been 4 cases of it there.

So the weekend was spent indoors getting creative all weekend trying to keep the kids happy and entertained. Noah was fine and wanted to play, Caeden started to want to play around Sat night.

His fever is gone, but he has a horrible cough. And on Sunday he woke up with a rash. The nurse thought it might be Roseola. (Don't ask?) He has been VERY irritable, not eating and very tired! I feel so bad for him!!

Then this morning this is what it looked like. Poor little guy. I was excited that we might be able to get out of the house today, but I think I would get some weird looks. Darn it!!!



So I got this idea from another friend (who I think had it way worse). This is what our house has been going through. The beer and ibuprofen are for Mike and I!!



We are thankful that he didn't have it that bad and was not hospitalized or even worse. So far so good on any of us getting it. Knock on wood.

So here is to hoping this week is a better week. I will be posting some pic's of craving the pumpkins and halloween!!!