Sundays are usually one of my favorite days of the week. I love the spiritual renewal I get from going to church and then enjoying the rest of the day knowing that it will be fairly relaxing and we won't even be tempted to run errands or do things of that nature. Today definitely wasn't a typical Sunday for us.
Yes, our kids are still sick. And because Bryce and I were supposed to give the opening and closing prayers and Bryce was being sustained in his new calling as Ward Choir Director, we both needed to be at Sacrament Meeting. We really didn't want to have to bring the 3 boys who were running fevers, coughing, and had runny noses. So we decided to do the Sacrament Meeting Switch. Bryce went in the morning so he could say the opening prayer (luckily that's the one they had put him down as saying) and be there for when he was sustained. He also asked the bishopric to announce that choir practice would be cancelled today (due to the fact that our house was a mass of germs). As soon as he was sustained, he left church to come home, and Ben and I got to hop in the van and go back to church for the rest of the meetings. Right after church, I had a visiting teaching appointment. It was the last one with my visiting teaching companion, as she is moving on Saturday. It was also to only one person, since we saw the other 2 last week, but it still managed to last an hour. Then I finally got to go home and eat some lunch and try to relax (the boys wanted to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 3, which Bryce bought me for Valentine's Day and I had never seen, so we were up in my room watching that). Try is the operative word there. If you know my boys, they're not still for very long, even when they're sick. The only difference is that they cry a lot easier when they're fighting and/or teasing each other. When they actually sit still for extended periods of time, that's when you know they're really sick, especially when you're dealing with Alex. So Sunday afternoon became a time of consoling crying kids, breaking up fights, etc.
Now is when the fun begins. Alex has had a pretty bad cough with this cold and has thrown up a few times because of it. At least twice today. Chris had a fever and Bryce was trying to give him some Tylenol for it, which he didn't want, so Chris threw up all over the floor. We got it and him cleaned up and tried again, and yet again, he threw up. So Bryce took him up to give him a bath to clean him off again and said, "Take Alex and Chris to the doctor." So as soon as Chris was out of the tub and I had nursed Daniel a little bit (it was 6:00, so getting close to when he goes to bed), I loaded the two boys up in the van and we headed over to the Quick Care (luckily, they count those as regular office visits). No one was waiting in the waiting area when we got there, so I thought that maybe it would be a bit quicker than usual, but unfortunately, about 5 different people had shown up right before I had and were in the examination rooms. So we had about a half hour wait. They took us back and had the kids get on the scale (Chris weighed 26.8 pounds, so almost 27 pounds and Alex was 41.1) and then put us in the room where the nurse asked what their symptoms were and then took their temperatures and did the blood oxigination level test. When she took Alex's, her thermometer read at 98.6, but I was pretty sure that was wrong, since he felt a lot warmer than that. Her machine was also picking up his blood ox level at 84%. So another nurse came in and took his blood ox level and it was normal. She let Alex play with the thermometer (head scan type) and he took his own temperature and it was 100.8, and he didn't even get it on there very well. Chris wasn't too happy about being at the doctor, so I had to kind of hold him as the doctor was examining him. Ears looked good, chest sounded good. Then came the time when we had to force open his mouth to look at his throat. The doctor said, "Wow, that throat looks bad." He decided to just go ahead and give us medication assuming it was strep and not doing a strep culture because of how stressed out Chris got just looking in his throat. Then he looked at Alex. "Well, that's a bad ear. And that one's worse." Then he went to look in his throat and I got Alex to open his mouth by saying, "Alex, do you want to show him how you don't have tonsils?" So the doctor started asking why he had them out (they were touching they were so large and causing sleep and eating problems, in case you didn't know). He mentioned that Chris has large tonsils too, but not quite that big. Alex's throat looked good though. So the doctor wrote out a prescription for alex's ear infections and for some cough syrup since Alex really has been coughing quite a bit, and we were able to go home. I dropped the boys at home, then left to go to Walgreen's to fill the prescriptions. Not an original idea. 2 hours later, I finally get home with the prescriptions and we get the boys their first dose (we managed to force it down Chris without him throwing it up again, so that was a bonus) and put them in bed. When I took the boys home and before I left to get their prescriptions, I was telling Bryce what we found out at the doctor and he said he feels like he has strep. He said he thinks he got it from me. I told him that my throat really hasn't been hurting very badly. He's decided now that I'm a carrier. I suppose I could be. If I am, I feel bad for all the people at church I've just exposed to strep. Also, I've decided that Daniel probably has strep, which is why he's had a fever for a full week tomorrow. When I took him to the doctor on Friday, they never did look at his throat. I keep thinking how much better he might have been feeling by now if they had looked at his throat and he really does have strep.
So now the boys are in bed and Bryce went to bed and I decided to get on the computer and write about my day. I think now I'll finally go get some much-deserved Sunday rest.
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