Feeling Better

It only took about 3 weeks, but I think that everyone around here is healthy again. Melanie and Savannah started running a fever and having a cough on a Friday. I waited all weekend to take them to the doctor and I thought that they were getting better on Monday. But when they still had a fever on Tuesday, I figured that they didn't have a cold. I took them to the doctor and they both had bronchitis! Oh joy! They're treatment: A Nebulizer (or breathing machine). They each had to at least do 2 breathing treatments for 10 minutes daily for 2 weeks. Melanie was at first afraid of the machine, but after a week she got used to it and it was Savannah that I always had to convince (or hold down) to do her treatment. The day after the girls went to the doctor, then Jon went in the next day, Wednesday. He had bronchitis too! His treatment: An antibiotic that made him completely nauseous, which he had to take twice daily. Then the next night, Thursday night, Savannah woke up complaining about her ear. So I took her to Urgent Care at 3 a.m. to find out she had a double ear infection. Her treatment: An antibiotic, which I had flavored by the pharmacy to taste like bubble gum. The flavoring helped, but she still complained when she had to take it every day.

Savannah recovered the fastest, and then Jon. Melanie has been slow coming because she didn't have an antibiotic, but I took her in for her 18 month check-up yesterday and the doctor says that she's doing great! Thank heavens that I never caught what they had and that they are finally all better!