Is Too. Is Snot!

Remember that little gem from middle school?  Well, it's taken on a whole new meaning here in the Colvin household!  We are over run with snot!  Gross huh?  Well, it's the the truth.  Like I said in a previous post, I've been sick for most of February, Tyler's been sick twice now, Kayla at least once, maybe twice now, and now Eric has come down with it.  It's crazy! 

I think I probably got it the worst.  I kept getting sick before I was even over the cold I was currently fighting.  I finally went to urgent care after 2 weeks of being sick when it became a sinus infection and they put me on amoxicillin.  For 2 or 3 days I was feeling good then bam!  Here it comes again and it's just as bad as before.  After feeling horrible for another couple days I woke up on Sunday morning with a red itchy rash head to toe and I could see it spreading!  So I quickly got dressed and grabbed Tyler, who had started coughing, and went back to urgent care.  Turns out I'm allergic to all things "cillin".  Thank God it wasn't something contagious.  It would be really hard to keep the two kids off me.  And, to top it off, now I have bronchitis.  It just keeps on coming.  Now that I've been on the pills for a couple days I feel much better.  Hopefully I'm not allergic to z-packs.  :-)  I still have the rash but it's much lighter and not hardly itchy.  Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be all better.

Now, Kayla's been sick too but she's generally quite happy/normal.  We have to blow her nose a thousand times a day but she usually lets us and even asks us to blow her nose.  She's never been brought down too much by being sick.  Even when she was throwing up back in January she was perfectly normal during the day.  She actually seems a little more hyper when she's sick, which is strange.  So she's a little more difficult to handle but at least she's not fussy and irritable and icky. 

But, Tyler is.  Tyler cannot handle being sick.  He's had to sleep in his car seat on multiple occasions because he can't sleep on his back when he's congested.  Until know that's been the worst of it.  But the last two days he's been on a whole other level.  The doctor at urgent care on Sunday said he just had a regular cold, that his lungs were clear.  But, he's crying or fussing all day long (especially when we wipe his nose, which is every five minutes basically) so much so that he's cried himself hoarse.  He always wants to be held.  Doesn't want his pacifier but instead me.  Isn't really laughing much.  Playing, but only for short amounts of time.  It's heartbreaking and it's annoying.  I can't hold him all day but I can't let him cry either.  It doesn't help that the pills for the rash have a warning on them that says one of the side effects is basically out of control emotions and that's very true.  The constant crying wares on me anyway but these pills make it unbearable.  There's a lot of deep breathing going on during the day, a lot of attempts at ignoring, a lot of singing to try to calm him down, and inevitably a lot of holding.  Aaaaand, I think the teeth are finally coming.  He's started to drool, which to this point he hasn't done.  I don't know if it's because he's teething or because he can't breathe through is nose so his mouth is constantly open and it just kinda falls out.  Part of me hopes it's teething so he gets some dang teeth since he's almost 8 months old, but part of me hopes it's not because why would we want a horrible cold and teething all at once???  Time will tell.  I gave him Tylenol tonight and some orajel and we'll see how tomorrow goes.  I just hope it's all over soon!  (took him to the doctor after writing this post and found out he has an ear infection so now he's on antibiotics so hopefully that'll speed along the progress.)

Now, Eric's body must have felt left out because he started coughing yesterday and came home from work early today and slept all afternoon.  He actually put on a coat in our house which he never does.  So, cough, chills, naps, all only equals one thing.  He's been cleaning everything with those antibacterial wipes and staying away from me and the kids as much as possible but it caught up with him anyway.  It's just that time of year and with kids, or even just 4 people living in a house together, it's hard not to pass things around.  Hopefully he doesn't get the repeated sicknesses like the rest of us did.  He's sucking down oranges and vitamins like a crazy man.  So send him your wellness wishes... and the rest of us.  :-)

So, now that I'm on the mend I can finally take care of the family instead of just sitting around being sick.  First step - dishes.  That's always my first step.  There are always dang dishes!  And the toys that need to be Lysol-ed.  Doesn't that sound like fun?  And then maybe, just maybe, I can start banging out these dang blog posts again.  Wouldn't you love that?  Until then... There's still progress being made... still fun to be had.