Saturday I told David, “James is getting sick.”
“Naaaahhhh…”
But on Sunday? “You were right. He’s sick.”
“I know.”
I stayed home with him yesterday and took him to the doctor. We had our very first puke all over the doctor’s office episode. It had been a good run.
This morning Cady woke up with a very scratchy voice, “Mom my thought hurts really, really bad.”
{Big sigh.}
Back to the doctor I went. Thankfully no one threw up today. Even though James still has fever.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t catch whatever this plague is that they’ve managed to come down with this time.
I’ll be back to regularly scheduled posts and activities soon.
If you have any immunity boosting tips for sick kids during cold season please share. I can use all the help I can get.
UGH! It seems that people are getting sick very very early this year. My oldest had a little sniffly headache thing going on last week, but I think hers is more headachey when she gets stressed and tired.
I wish I had some sage advice, but I don’t. Fortunately for whatever rhyme or reason mine stay pretty healthy.
We do keep to a strict bedtime schedule even through the weekends. I think sleep is so important to their health. And I try my hardest to give them some healthy things to eat. And of course they are very active. I also make them shower every night, no matter what.
I hope you don’t get what they have and that they feel better soon!
Those are all the things we do too. James gets sick when the weather starts to change. We’ve had a couple of cool fronts come through with a sudden drop in temp and a rise back up to 90 within in a couple of days. That always weakens his immune system. With Cady I know it starts with allergies, but she has been doing a lot better since I started her on Zyrtec. I just wish we could have a good stretch of six months or so without either of them getting sick.
Oh, I hope you don’t get it, truly I do. I got a flu shot yesterday at a checkup and the boy did too at his later that day. The girls go on the 13th. Already, though, my oldest has had a nagging cough for a few days. Ugh. I am so not ready to go directly into sickville (and she gets sick the least often!).
I don’t know what makes one kid get something and another not, or what makes certain kids more apt to getting ill more than others (my kids as a perfect example: the middle girl keeps a cold all winter usually, the boy has a runny nose but not usually anything else and the oldest will get knocked down by something once, if that, and bounce right back. My husband is poisoning us all because he never gets anything).
I hope y’all are germ-free soon. All I got is wash hands often and use Lysol on surfaces touched all the time: door knobs, fridge handles, toilet handles, keyboards (and, in my house specifically: random things the boy might lick).
Got it. No licking.
Grapefruit seed extract at the health food store. Mix 10 drops in O.J. After break fast after dinner and at bed time. Drink it fast or you’ll throw up. It will keep someone about to get sick from getting sick and shorten the duration.
It is available in tablet or liquid. I’ve heard the tablets are slower to work. I’ve never tried them.
I’m so bad at stuff that doesn’t taste good. I would be gagging that up in seconds.
That’s what the O.J. is for. I only tasted it once. I warned everyone else and no one else has tasted it. I’ve given it to the girls since they were 9, when I discovered it. They’ve never had a problem, and once it stopped the flu after she was already showing symptoms.
They are in school… bring on the sickies.
The only advice I have, stock up on wine for mom.
The professional has spoken!
We had some friends come to K’s b-day party on Saturday that I had heard had the stomach bug the week before. I was praying they didn’t touch my children AT ALL. I’m no germaphone but man, the sickness abounds!
Hope everyone feels better ASAP!!! xoxo
The stomach virus scares me to death. Thankfully I think the upset tummy was a side effect of the virus and not the main feature. He was still running a fever last night, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that today will be the end of it.
Poor kids (and poor you). Do you have them take vitamins? Our doc pretty much always said that vitamins were a waste if your kids ate right. Well, I started giving the kids vitamins a year or more ago and I SWEAR they work. I just give them a store brand gummy multi-vitamin every night and it has really helped.
I hope everyone is feeling better soon!
I have them take the regular vitamins and the immunity building ones.
Sounds like you are doing all of the right things. Sickness comes and it stinks but it will be what it is. I agree with the wine!
Hope that Cady and James are feeling better quickly and that no one else picks it up.
I don’t have any tips besides sending them to school in a bubble.
Just Lysol, Lysol, Lysol. Everything the kid touches. I Lysol doorknobs, lightswitches, tv remotes… everything.
Yuck. Hope everyone gets well soon. But until then, keep them away from my kids! Mommy has to blog and doesn’t have time for sick boys. (JK)
They make Oscillococcinum for kids too…though you may have to order it online..it’s by Boiron and homeopathic. I absolutely swear by it!