Wednesday, February 25, 2009

SICK!!!

Monday when Wyatt got off of the bus, he told me that he was having a hard time keeping his eyes open all day at school.  He was a tad droopy, but that was it.  Tuesday morning he had a slight fever, so I gave him some Motrin and told him to try to make it until after lunch (since he was going to miss Thursday and Friday for his trip).  Around 1, the school nurse called and told me Wyatt was in her office with a temp of 102.6.  I called the hubs and he went to pick him up.  I gave him some more Motrin, and he told me he had been hot all morning, but the nurse was at a meeting and the teacher couldn't do anything until she returned to her office.  Thirty minutes later I took his temp again, and it had RISEN to 103.9..... on Motrin.  I called the hubs back to the house, to keep the buddies, and took Wyatt to the Urgent Care.  The doc took one look at him and said, "He has the flu".  What?  I was hoping for strep, you know, one shot in the rear and 24 hours later you are good as new.  Apparently it is just now going around NC.  While we were waiting on the doc to come back and give him a flu test, the middle school nurse called.  Levi was in her office with a temp.  ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!  I called the hubs and told him to go and get him before they loaded the buses, then called the nurse back so she could tell Levi not to get on the bus, but get in the parent drive line if his dad didn't make it there in time.  Levi said the same thing Wyatt had said the day before, he couldn't hold his eyes open at school all day and his head felt like it weighed 100 pounds.  Guess who was driving back to the Urgent Care two hours later.  They wouldn't call anything in for Levi without seeing him, because he has never been there before.  But, they didn't make him take the flu test (they stick a thing up into your nose for the swab).   So, if you are counting, that was two trips to the Urgent Care and two trips to CVS.  Oh, the best thing out of this?  We got a prescription card from the school at the beginning of the year.  I used it last night.  It took almost 30 dollars off of each of the doses of Relenza.  Awesome!

10 comments:

Rockin' it up said...

sorry everyone's sick! I hope they feel better soon! P.S. does your MAC laptop have little plastic lines at the top of the computer that are supposed to keep the keys from getting smashed? Apparently they are cracking the plastic near the clicker and mousepad on lots of computers and ours just started cracking. SO ANNOYING--plus MAC is saying that part is not under warrantee. Ugh.

BE said...

I hope they feel better soon. Will they still be able to go on their trip?

Shannon said...

Leigh, our laptop is not the white plastic kind. It is the new silver metal ones that just came out. I don't see any lines on the keyboard, so maybe that was just on the white ones. I hate that for you though. Call AppleCare and raise cain!!!! (do you have the Apple protection plan?)

Shannon said...

Bethany, I don't know, Wyatt is already feeling better, Levi hasn't gotten up yet this morning.

Homemom3 said...

oh ikky flu, I hate that. Poor kid had to go almost all day without anyone knowing his temp. Hope they start feeling better soon.

Homemom3 said...

oh ikky flu, I hate that. Poor kid had to go almost all day without anyone knowing his temp. Hope they start feeling better soon.

Anonymous said...

I hope the buddies don't get it too! I got a flu shot a couple of weeks ago while I was at the doc for something else, but my kids haven't had one this year. Hope they get to feeling better soon and can still go on their trip! Keep us posted.

Crystal

Fantastagirl said...

I hope they feel better soon and the buddies don't get it!

Nancy M. said...

The flu is awful! I hope everyone is feeling better at your house and that no one else gets it. Yay for the discount card!

Amanda said...

I'm sorry the boys are sick. I hope they feel better soon! We had a nasty flu here a few weeks ago, but the fall flu season was so mild, I don't think we're done yet. At least you were able to get them in and get them antiviral meds. They really work wonders if you're not allergic to them like I am.