Immunity failure, part 2
Well, Ivy has the flu or a flu-type illness. Basically, she has a high fever, lots of aches and pains, and a headache. When her fever is going up, she has classic chills - including chattering teeth. Yesterday was her last day of antibiotics for the strep throat, but she had a high fever that morning. I took her into the doctor's office, where we spent an hour and a half in the office waiting for the results of various rapid tests. The rapid test for strep was negative, as was the rapid test for the flu. They one for influenza is intesting, they take a nasal wash and then run a PCR reaction on that material. It apparently has a relatively high false negative rate, so they then take some of that wash and culture it for viruses as well. If it is positive for influenza, they let us know so that we can start on anti-flu medication if one of us gets the high fever. Those medications are only effective if you start them the first day of the flu. If Ivy had been positive, she could have started the medicine to shorten her illness time, but since she was negative, we have to wait it out.
Last night at 1 am, she woke us up with her feeling awful. I took her temperature, and it was 103.5 under her arm. I started getting nervous, that temperature is higher than I am comfortable with. Luckily, a dose of ibuprofin lowered it within a half hour. She spent most of the rest of the night sleeping with us and sweating. Later, Rose joined us and complained about being "squished" when she is trying to be the 4th person to squeeze into bed. I realized that my patience for whiny children is pretty low at 3 am.
Today, Ivy was better, but still pretty low. Ivy was able to get up and play, whereas yesterday, she spent the entire day (even at the doctor's office) laying down. As bedtime approached and her earlier dose of ibuprofin wore off, Ivy got the chills again, so she got more medicine. Then Rose got really fussy - and she had a temperature too! Rose's temp was not as high as Ivy's has been, but Ivy had a lower temp on Wednesday night as well. We will see tomorrow how sick the kids are. Glenn and I had planned to go to dinner and dancing with some friends tomorrow night - hopefully the kids are well enough that we can go. At this point, I am not counting on it. AND - I get to take care of the kids by myself tomorrow during the day while Glenn has to work for several hours.
The worst part of all this for me is that I, as well, feel horrible. My head hurts, I ache all over, but I have no fever. The kids get to lay around when they are sick - I get to clean the kitchen, cook food, take care of them, etc.
Gaming was cancelled for tonight, so I got a short break from crabby kids to run to Target and shop for candy and toys for bunny baskets on Sunday. I picked up new Barbie dolls for the girls - a Poison Ivy one and a Batgirl one. I couldn't resist and it fits our "non-traditional" Barbie rules [ok, they are more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules].
Ok.. commentary for The Incredibles is over, so I am gonna put the computer down.
Last night at 1 am, she woke us up with her feeling awful. I took her temperature, and it was 103.5 under her arm. I started getting nervous, that temperature is higher than I am comfortable with. Luckily, a dose of ibuprofin lowered it within a half hour. She spent most of the rest of the night sleeping with us and sweating. Later, Rose joined us and complained about being "squished" when she is trying to be the 4th person to squeeze into bed. I realized that my patience for whiny children is pretty low at 3 am.
Today, Ivy was better, but still pretty low. Ivy was able to get up and play, whereas yesterday, she spent the entire day (even at the doctor's office) laying down. As bedtime approached and her earlier dose of ibuprofin wore off, Ivy got the chills again, so she got more medicine. Then Rose got really fussy - and she had a temperature too! Rose's temp was not as high as Ivy's has been, but Ivy had a lower temp on Wednesday night as well. We will see tomorrow how sick the kids are. Glenn and I had planned to go to dinner and dancing with some friends tomorrow night - hopefully the kids are well enough that we can go. At this point, I am not counting on it. AND - I get to take care of the kids by myself tomorrow during the day while Glenn has to work for several hours.
The worst part of all this for me is that I, as well, feel horrible. My head hurts, I ache all over, but I have no fever. The kids get to lay around when they are sick - I get to clean the kitchen, cook food, take care of them, etc.
Gaming was cancelled for tonight, so I got a short break from crabby kids to run to Target and shop for candy and toys for bunny baskets on Sunday. I picked up new Barbie dolls for the girls - a Poison Ivy one and a Batgirl one. I couldn't resist and it fits our "non-traditional" Barbie rules [ok, they are more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules].
Ok.. commentary for The Incredibles is over, so I am gonna put the computer down.
posted by Liana @ 11:59 PM
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