More of March

The night Reid got home from his trip, Kai had started coughing.  He was coughing so hard he threw up and so he ended up staying home from school on Monday the 9th.  Finn went to school, though, and even talked his dad into making him some green eggs to go with his ham that we had for dinner.  (He had tried green eggs at school the previous week when they celebrated Dr. Suess and now he will only eat eggs if they are green.)

The next day (Tuesday the 10th) Kai was still coughing and sounding quite congested.  So, I had him get in the shower to clear some stuff out.  He ended up getting sick in the shower.  Ugghhh....that was not fun.  So, he stayed home again.  Bree was a quite a little cutie on the way to take Finn to school that day!

That night Kai started running a fever, so he was home from school again on the 11th.  Good grief, I was getting anxious to get him back to school and finally on the 12th (Thursday) I was able to send him.  He was still coughing and you could tell he was still weak, but I felt he needed to get back to school.

On Thursday when I finally got Kai back to school, Finn started in on it.  He was running a fever, coughing, throwing up, and run down.  He took a 3-4 hour nap in the middle of the day.  That never happens!  I was able to keep him hydrated by giving him small amounts of water through his G-tube, thankfully, but he wasn't really eating anything.

Staying hydrated, thanks to the g-tube, while taking a nap.

On Friday I called CF clinic as we were going into the weekend and I wanted to check in with them before I couldn't get anyone.  They said that if Finn started running a fever or throwing up again that i should take him in.  Friday morning he was feeling pretty good and much better (still coughing, but much improved).  By about 4:30 that afternoon he was back to running a fever and throwing up again.  I made the decision to take him into our pediatrician's after-hours clinic.  The doctor wasn't super helpful but did mention that Finn appeared to have an ear infection in his left ear.  Ummm....wow!  He's never had one of those before.

Anyway, we stayed in for the weekend and tried to get everyone back to feeling better.  On Sunday I started noticing that Bree was coughing.  By Monday she was coughing and sounding bad like everyone else.  It was a pretty day outside so we walked down to the bus stop to get Kai and we got these pictures.

Tuesday night (the 17th) Kai started complaining of being tired, not hungry, and cold.  Turned out he was running a fever.  Boo!  He ended up running a fever every afternoon for the next three days and so he missed the final three days of school before spring break.  He also missed his class field trip to the Denver Aquarium and the 2nd grade Beach Day.  I felt really bad for him, but he was worn out and needed to rest and stay home.  Bree also started running nightly fevers on Wednesday night.  I actually took both Kai and Bree to the pediatrician on Wednesday morning.  They gave Kai an antibiotic and said he might have a "sinus infection".  They said Bree had a cold, and no ear infection.  I have to say that I wasn't thrilled with the visit.  We could only get in with the RN that day and I ended up regretting it.  That same day I took Finn in for a visit with the CF RN (see the theme) at the South Children's location so that they could check him out.  It was our first sick CF visit ever.  Finn was down over 2 pounds in just 4 days, both of his ears did "not look normal", and they heard some slight wheezing in his chest.  We did a belly x-ray to make sure he was cleared out (he was) and they ran basic bloodwork to make sure he wasn't dehydrated (he wasn't).  We had seen the GI the day before and had decided to restart his reflux meds.  The GI was also worried about post-viral gastroparesis.  The CF RN decided that we should give the GI's plan a try (we hadn't been able to start the meds yet because of insurance delays) and wait to start a round of prednisone for the wheezing until after his tummy issues were resolved.  I agreed.  So that day I spent my ENTIRE day with doctors only to be told that there isn't that much wrong with the kids.  It was frustrating and I didn't agree because my kids were definitely sick.  Finn, however, didn't miss any school that week (and had only missed 2 days the week before).  Kai ended up missing 6 days of school.  And then we had spring break!  That's for my next post.  

Thursday afternoon Finn got really quite.  I found him totally asleep on my pillow.  He told me he wasn't sleeping.  :)