Well he’s got strep throat. Ugh.

This is a man who never gets sick. The last time he was really sick we both had the flu. It was almost 7 years ago. February 2002. I got it first, he got it 3 days later, stayed home from work one day and was fine. I was still sick another 3 days or so.

I have never had strep. Never. That thing I had just over two years ago where I didn’t eat for over a week? Wasn’t strep. Still not positive what it was.

Praying Steve has a speedy recovery (the big baby lol) and that neither me or Elijah get it!!!

We’re both doing better though. Of course, Elijah never really acted sick other than taking a nap the other day. My voice is still crud, and I’m coughing a lot more now, though. But there’s no pressure in my head anymore and I don’t feel like puking all the time. The two of us actually got out today to take some pictures and what not. Mostly we drove around, but we got some sun, too.

The new dehumidifier is working out great and maybe that’s helping, too. In just short of 24 hours, I already had to empty it. I don’t think its tank is any smaller than the old one, it’s just gotten pretty damp down there in between normal stuff and all the rain we’ve been getting. This evening Steve said it was almost full again, so I’ll have to check on it when I do some laundry here in a sec.

Anyway, more to come later.

So, anyway, what is new these days? I don’t really know. Just being sick, it seems. Yesterday evening, I did go outside for a while with the boys and while Steve BBQ’d, I watched Elijah drive around the yard in his little Jeep. I also spent some time out with them on Sunday while Steve cleaned up the yard (all the winter wood and stuff gathers and makes a mess) and Elijah played, before going out to my in-laws’ and attempting to fix their modem. Being outside really isn’t pleasant for me right now, even if the weather is nice, for obvious reasons, but I suppose I needed it.

So, um, yeah, I started this post like hours ago but got distracted by everything. I need a nap.

I feel like I can’t hear out of my left ear. I am wondering if my sinuses are blocked in a more permanent manner or something because nothing I do does any good. It just keeps getting worse and worse. There’s so much pressure behind my left ear it’s ridiculous. I’ve never felt anything like this before. It feels like my eardrum is just going to explode and gross crap is going to spill out my ear. Wouldn’t be implausible. I know a girl in junior high/high school that that happened to. But it’s also strange because the right side of my face is just fine. My throat doesn’t hurt anymore and my coughs, while painful, are rarer and while I have to blow my nose occasionally, I can breathe just fine. No fever, either.

So I don’t get it. I mean, I was fine! Last week, dealing with Elijah’s fevers, my sinus infection and what not cleared all up… for about two days. And now this, as of yesterday. We were heading out to eat last night and I could just feel the pressure building around my ear. Really surreal, actually.

So I’m home and for the next hour and a half, I’m alone. It’s kind of nice. Steve took Elijah to church without me. Of course, Elijah rolled out of bed announcing that he was going, he would have been mad not to go. But I probably won’t go to my class tomorrow morning. I’m gonna call the doctor first thing, I hope they can get me in fast before my head explodes. Of course, now I’m wondering if I should bother with our general practitioner at all or try to get into an ear, nose, throat doctor… or maybe I have to be referred to one? Who knows. All I know is that this may kill me before then.

So, anyway. Elijah’s been sick. It all started last Wednesday when I got sick, but my fever broke basically overnight and the flu symptoms were gone by the next day and replaced with cold-like symptoms. It was probably Friday, I guess, that Elijah got the same thing and just as quickly, it was gone. He and I went out for breakfast on Saturday and did a little shopping. On Sunday, we all went to church.

Tuesday morning, around 3:30, he was up and crying. I took his temperature: 104.1. Some ibuprofen took it down right away, I mean, very fast. Another dose later in the morning. At 12:30pm, he seemed fine, temperature seemed to be gone completely. I’m talking, a 98.7 degree reading on the thermometer. But after a long nap, just as I was going to check on him, he woke up: 104.9. By this time, it was too late again to call the doctor. More ibuprofen and it came down again. I talked to a nurse on the Children’s Hospital hotline for several minutes. She ran through a lot of symptoms with me, stuff that if he had it, we would have probably taken him to the hospital. But nothing. Stuff like his breathing (it was fine), no purple rashes, he could touch his chin to his chest without pain, etc.

This morning around 5, he felt a bit warm, but certainly not hot. I woke him up and gave him medicine. At 9, seemed like the fever was gone again. Despite my best efforts, he was running around the room singing that when Daddy got home we were going to go get Chinese food (his idea), etc. I should have noticed earlier than I did that he was getting sluggish again. Like he suddenly didn’t want the food I’d made that he’d begged to have, he kept making excuses that it was too hot to eat long after it wasn’t. Taking his temperature again, he was back to 101.7. Some Tylenol and I made him lay down again.

So I called the doctor and that’s where we stand now. They just called back and I’m taking him there in 50 minutes. He’s sleeping now, fell right to sleep. He’s going to freak out, too, this whole time he’s been adamant that he’s NOT going to the doctor under any circumstances.

So we’ll see what happens. I’m sure they’ll just put him on antibiotics though…

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Ah, yes, they put him on antibiotics. Both ears are infected again. Well, whatever. They said they’d like to see him again in a week if he’s not better. So we’ll see…