Chase is sick... and so are we

H1N1 has struck our household and it was our first experience of seeing the little guy sick. We took him to daycare one morning thinking everything was fine, and then we got a call that he had a temperature of 101 and we had to get him within the hour. I went and got him and took him home. Of course we didn't have any tylenol that I could find for him so we waited for the doctor's appointment that afternoon. By the time they took his temperature it was at 102.8 and I believe the doctors were trying to be as calm as possible. It was probably a good thing Laura wasn't there. The doctor starting listing like 6 things I had to do, and I must have had a little bit of a stunned look on my face while I was nodding, becuase she stopped to ask me if she should write this down. In her head she was thinking "I wish the mom was here".

However, I remembered everything and we took the little guy home to get better. Could definetely tell he wasn't feeling well. No bouncy chair, no smiles, content to just sit on my lap, which doesn't happen anymore. So mom got home and immediately started charting everything in excel. Big change from the graphic design major I married 5 years ago, now she's using excel for everyhing.

The doctor said he tested positive for the flu, but she wasn't going to say for certain that it was the swine flu. However she was going to give him medicine like it was the swine flu. So basically, she said it was without saying it. I like our doctor, she's a straight shooter. So then I called the daycare to tell them it was the flu, but I wasn't sure if it was the swine flu, but it probably is, I just can't say for sure message. Which was cool, becuase about an hour later there was an email in my inbox sent from the daycare to all parents saying they had their first case of possible swine flu in the young infant room. Awesome being the first parents to bring an infected kid to daycare. I'm sure no one will figure out who it was. (sarcasm in that sentence) Nobody talks to us now as it is, this won't help.

Well after a couple of days of great parenting he started to get better. Nothing like high fives between us when we got a diaper filled with urine. I also would make him angry just to see if he would get tears in his eyes. Like I said great parenting, had to make sure he was hydrated. We're trying to teach him to cough into his elbow, but it's not quite working. It's also Chase's fault the Twins lost since he had to skip the game because of the flu. I was still for taking him, but I got vetoed on that.

Definetely crazy seeing your kid sick when they can't tell you why. So if you've got kids give em a hug and tell them not to share toys with kids at daycare for the next couple of months.