We have spent much of the last week and a half coping with one ailment after another. With 5 kids, it's been a bit of a challenge to keep track of who's had what when (especially because Mike and I are operating on less than 4 hours of sleep a night for the last 3 nights). This morning I groggily sat over my calendar trying to recall and make a note of what days were missed at school over the last week by which child, and what variety of symptoms they'd experienced when. I AM PRetty Much EXHAUSTED.
Health update: Noble is recovering from a case of H1N1 - all Tamiflu-ed up. Tillman suspected to have the same thing (no Tamiflu prescribed because he has less of an asthmatic history & they're saving Tamiflu for riskier cases - the doctor told him tough luck). Grace tested negative for strep, most likely a stomach virus unrelated to flu (getting better).
I have to tell you, that in 11 years of parenting I haven't seen anything like this. For starters just the sheer variety of symptoms (bouts of vomiting, days later: cough and extreme fever) multiplied by 4 kids (Sully is so far unscathed - knock on wood). Plus, stuff that I have NEVER seen before like the past two nights - Noble has had constant hallucinations with his fever.
THAT is freaking scary.
He's telling me: "Mom, where are all the people that were with me? They keep disappearing when I get up to go to them. They're carrying musical instruments. Mom, my arm is tingling!!! I keep trying to wash it off! It's smaller than the other one!!" This, was how he explained running up and down the stairs ALL NIGHT LONG. I kept thinking, "He's totally having bad dreams." But then he was completely cogent and interactive. And he remembers all of it... says that the people (the same ones came the second night) weren't scaring him, just keeping him awake, he could hear voices.
I know, it was completely psycho... it scared me to death. I was so close to rushing him to the emergency room at 2 AM. Mike finally gave him a blessing & he slept after that.
YIKES. Seriously, Jessie's habit of sleep walking is enough to weird me out - but this was nuts.
4 comments:
I'm so sorry for you! Sam had the swine flu earlier and he was literally pouring out sweat and talking jibberish... seemed to mess him up in the head, I think it has to do with the fevers. Sounds like they're begining to be on the mend? Just watch for difficulty breathing, or signs of pnumonia. Thank goodness for blessings!
holy. cow. Hang in there and let me know if I can do anything for you!
(did you take your for sale sign down?)
I guess you don't need to worry about whether to vaccinate your kids or not now. Its true that very high fevers can make you halucinate, I've been there a few times, it feels kind of like an out of body experience. Watch out for Tilman, he seems to always be the one to get the sickest out of your kids. Good luck and I hope you get some sleep soon.
Man Ang, maybe I need to come over there and help take care of you. I hope the little dudes are feeling better in time for halloween and I hope Sully stays clean from the contamination! YUCK!
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