House Full of Sickies

It's been a rough couple of weeks around here. Kaleb's finally feeling better (thanks in large part to the Tamiflu!), but last Saturday Martin got hit by the same bug. It seems most likely that both of them had H1N1. They both had flu-like symptoms and the seasonal flu hasn't hit yet. I didn't get sick like them, and I received my H1N1 vaccine at the end of October.

Even though I didn't get the same thing that was floating around our house, I did manage to still pick up a virus somewhere. I woke up Thursday feeling kinda cruddy like I was getting a cold. Friday morning my throat hurt (not raw/sore, but achey like it was swollen inside), and the glands in my neck were so swollen you couldn't see that I had a jaw. It was a hot look, let me tell you.... I was worried I might have strep throat, so I called around and found a doctor who charges on a fee-for-service basis. He doesn't work with insurance at all. And since we don't have insurance anyway, it seemed like we had very few options: that or a minute clinic, and the independent guy's rates were cheaper.

Since Martin was still feeling really under the weather and still had a bad cough, we made an appointment for him too. Three hours, two office visits, a (negative) rapid strep test, and $81 later we were heading to Target to get Martin's antibiotic prescription for the bronchitis he's developed. It was a fun day let me tell ya. And now my cold has settled in my head and I'm hoping I don't develop a sinus infection :( 

With both Martin and I feeling so under the weather, and the munchkin finally feeling better, it was just too much. We couldn't keep up with him. Thankfully my parents agreed to take Kaleb for the weekend so we could rest. Lifesavers the two of them!! So Friday evening we loaded up the munchkin and drove little over an hour to meet my mom halfway, then drove the hour back and crashed in bed for most of the rest of the weekend.

So that's been our life the past week or so. Wish I had something interesting to write about, but I've got nothing. I'll try to come up with more interesting posts in the near future :)

For now, I'm off to bed to hopefully get a decent night's sleep to start another busy week off on the right foot.