Since Christmas....

I have not taken a single picture since Christmas.  For me, that's quite a long time.  We enjoyed the holidays, but the week after Christmas seemed to just drag.  Really drag.  Kai was asking when he could go back to school.  Three weeks is a really long Winter Break!  The week following New Year's I had all kinds of ideas swirling in my head of how to keep the kids busy.  Unfortunately, early Tuesday morning Finn awoke with a fever.  His fever came and went and then came again that evening.  By Wednesday he had started in on a runny nose, and then on Thursday the cough came.  We started our sick plan on Wednesday and I'll admit that by Saturday I was questioning everything.  This cold brought the junkiest sounding cough that I have ever heard him have and I was questioning if his Pulmozyme (nebulizer medication) was actually causing it instead of helping it.  I should know better by now than to question it, but apparently I don't.  Monday morning I put a call into clinic and by Tuesday we had a prescription for antibiotics.  Sometime around the second week of his cold, Reid and Kai started in on it (I picked it up about 2 days in), and right when I thought Finn's cough was sounding better, Kai started coughing.  Finn had yet to see a doctor as I was hoping we could make it until his scheduled clinic visit on the 23rd.  (Also, I'll admit that I was concerned that he would be admitted if I took him in sounding like that.  I wasn't sure, but I was very worried.)  However, I did decide to take Kai in and get an opinion.  The verdict--the common cold.  Yep, just a cold.  At least for Kai, it's a cold anyway.  He has no other symptom other than a horribly-loud cough.  We have him on some anti-histamines and I'm hoping it'll work.  In the meantime, Finn is sounding better.  He will be fine until next Monday.  I'm still trying to shake it, but I'm hoping to be almost there.

What a great way to start the New Year--huh?!  We've been sick nearly all year!  I'm hoping we can get through this and have it behind us.  But just in case we can't, I've been trying to put together a sick log to track how often and when Finn has been sick.  It's been a lot over the last 6 months.  I'd really like to figure it out.    I've also been playing with the blog a bit to see if I can find a way to incorporate a Cystic Fibrosis page for health updates.  We'll see how it works and then adjust from there.

Also, just in case you didn't know....I set-up a public blog at jonesupdates.blogspot.com.  If you use a blog reader, like Google reader, you can add that blog to the reader and I'll post to it when there's a new post on the private blog.  The public blog will link you to the private blog so that you can read the new update.

Well, that's our update for now.  Hopefully there'll be something more exciting soon.