Not one, but two...

Kids are sick now. Matthew came home from school on Thursday of last week with a fever. It was staying around 102 most of the day, and then Friday I kept him home just to be safe. He acted a lot better, but still had the fever. Saturday morning, he still had it, and it was climbing...off to the Dr's we went, and got no answers. Was sent home, and fever escalated, and then Sunday was bad. He had an episode of not knowing what was going on, and that scared me. Called the Dr again, and they said we needed to have him looked at, so off to urgent care we went. A chest x-ray revealed he has an over accumulation of fluid in his right lung, and a double ear infection. Got some meds, went home. Today his fever climbed to 105.1. Called dr back and they want us to piggy back meds to keep fever at a reasonable number. I have to take him back in on Thursday if the fever is still here. What a stressful couple of days this has been for everyone. I worked last week, and thought how relaxing Thursday was going to be, and here we are already into the new week, and we are still dealing with this. Matthew has periods of feeling like himself, but they last for about 10 minutes, and then he is back to being lethargic, throwing up, and acting strange. He says weird things, and gets upset about not being able to do things, like empty his throw up bowl into the toilet. So....not like him.

We finally got him settled tonight, and Kate felt warm, so I took her temp, and shes at 103.2. I wish I could scream and get away with it. I think to myself, Matthew is a older boy, he is strong and I just know he will come out of this fine after time. Now that she has the fever, it is like, noooo! I don't know what is to come out of all of this, and frankly, everything has been so unpredictable. With any other illness or cold, I know what to expect, I know how to handle it, but I just don't know how to deal with both of them if they are this sick.

Matthew is coughing terribly, and knowing how much fluid they said was in his lung, it has me freaked out 24/7. I just want it gone, and I just want my normal boy back. I feel like this all came out of left field, and it was just so unexpected. I pray so hard that when Kate wakes up, she is fine, and shows no signs of what he has. Please, please.

I told Matthew that when he gets better, he can choose anywhere he wants to go, or do, and we will do it...so long as it isn't Disneyland since that isn't really something we can do. ;) He seems to think he wants to go to the park...I hope we can!