well, we had one week of not being sick

...thankfully, that week was our weeks vacation in Puerto Plata.

I'm sure it will be no shock when I say that we are all sick again at the Hash house. Unfortunately, Nicholas has the worst of it. He woke up Saturday seemingly fine and then not long into the day, he started getting warm and not feeling well and parked himself on the couch for most of the day. Poor little guy spent most of the day sleeping and being feverish. Later that night, his fever got pretty high and I asked Cheryl how high would a fever have to be for her to take her kid to the hospital. She said 104. Nicholas was 102-103 so we got him cooled down, medicated and it didn't take long for his fever to reduce and then slept through the night. Phew! But it didn't end there...Sunday, he wasn't feeling the greatest but lots of improvement. I noticed his eye was getting pretty red and as the day progressed, BOTH eyes were red and itchy. I took him to the clinic but it was closed already...then we went to Emerg which was jam packed and a 4 hour wait! We decided on talking to the pharmacist who gave us antibiotic eyedrops which helped through the night and then Johnathons plan was to take Monday off and take Nicholas to the doctor...which he did...even while there, he started running another fever. But why?? Why all these fevers, we just couldn't figure it out. Turns out Nicholas has a double ear infection, thus the fevers, which he never gave one indicator to us about. Both eyes infected as well..and he has meds for that as well and contagious until about lunchtime so Mommy is home with him today. Last night, I just couldn't resist and crawled right into his little single bed with him and snuggled with him through the night. Our poor Sticks has had quite the go of it this year. I can only hope that it stops here and Shane doesn't pick up the eye infection.

So, that is the worst of it. The rest of us are battling colds. I don't think Shane's nose has stopped running since December! And both Johnathon and I are fighting our own cold battle....his ammo is Nyquil, mine Cold FX. Results unknown as of yet but I do have to admit this Cold FX seems to do wonders...although you can still feel the head cold down deep...no extra symptoms have started and nothing is worsening. It is very hard to explain actually but I think I have to say Yay to the Cold FX.

I know I have not posted about our trip yet...I totally plan on doing so. I have lots of pics I want to put into an album. We had a great family vacation and I want to share and get those pics posted shortly. Between the mountain of laundry I am still tackling and housework, working, the nice weather and wanting to be outdoors and most importantly, my sick family, I simply haven't taken the time.

Yet another thing on the to do list!