We have had our fair share of sickness in this house. It all started the day after Christmas when Ian started running a low grade fever and had a cough. By Friday night he had a fever of 104 and Saturday morning was coughing a lot more and congested and his fever only went down to 102 with Tylenol. I took him in to our peds office and they ran a test for flu, strep and RSV. He tested positive for RSV, which we suspected, and I knew it was only a matter of time before Hayden and Harper got it. Do you know how hard it is to keep two 3 year old boys away from a baby – next to impossible! 3 days after Ian started running fever, Hayden started and then 3 days later, Harper. Then about 3 days later Daddy got it and then I was officially the last one in the house to get the crud…I’m just trying to hold off on getting antibiotics. Jonathan’s and mine turned into a sinus infection so he got antibiotics last week. Ian actually ended up with a double ear infection too so he had antibiotics or that as well.
Poor Harper was hit pretty hard with it. RSV in babies can be fatal and as they get older it gets less severe. While the boys were miserable and felt horrible, Harper was almost hospitalized due to it. She had horrible wheezing, congestion and wouldn’t eat. she was eating about 8-9 ounces of formula a day, that’s it! So the first threat of the hospital was for her breathing, but being a respiratory therapist and dealing with RSV a LOT when I worked at Children’s our pediatrician felt comfortable with us taking her home and doing breathing treatments and suctioning at home. The second hospital threat was for dehydration. Thankfully, she started drinking and having wet diapers again, so we were good!
For a week and a half we did a lot of laying around, watching movies, playing games and doing puzzles, reading books and more laying around. Hayden (who got hit the least) was going stir crazy, but Ian who is our home body had to re-adjust after being home for so long. He had a hard time going back to school, in fact the first day back only Hayden went and Ian stayed home with me.
We are all on the mend now and we hope that virus never comes back! Ha, who am I kidding…
