Sickness

This month has been a very bad month in our house.  We can't seem to get healthy!  It all started with Alexander getting sick last week.  He was sick for about 4 days with a 104 fever.  We even ended up at Urgent Care one evening.  I got a little freaked out when his fever spiked to 104 and he started complaining of neck pain.  The first thought that went through my head was, "OH MY GOD! He has meningitis!"  Luckily that wasn't the problem and I was a little crazy, but I felt it was better to be safe.  His diagnosis was tonsillitis. 

Then on Sunday, Julia started running a fever.  The fever went away on Monday.  She went to daycare on Wednesday.  Then wouldn't sleep at all on Wednesday night.  We sent her to daycare on Thursday because she seemed fine and didn't have a fever.  We figured that she didn't sleep because she had teeth coming in.  Apparently we were wrong.  I got the dreaded call from daycare a 3:00 today.  Julia was throwing up.  I felt so bad and immediately left to go pick her up.  We got home and she threw up 2 more times and was running a fever of 102.  I called the doctor and talked to the nurse.  They thought it would be a good idea for her to be seen, so we took a trip to the doctor's office.  We ended up with a diagnosis of some summertime virus that kids are getting now.  I guess they develop a rash, throw up, and get diarrhea with this virus.  It is also very contagious.  Lucky us!  So Julia has a completely different illness than Alexander had and he will probably catch it too.

So, we need some prayers that this illness will leave our house without Alexander or anyone else catching it.  We also hope that no one at daycare catches it either.