a bunch of icky sickies

warning! this post will have yuckiness! do not read if you have a weak stomach!

as of the beginning of this week, we have joined the rest of the world in getting sick. we are a bunch of icky sickies! pbs started us off sunday morning when we were getting ready for church. he decided it was a good time to exorcise his stomach contents on the kitchen floor, twice. i forgot to mention that he'd gotten a flu shot on friday.

i checked his temperature and found that he had a slight fever. slight, meaning he had a fever of 101.3. needless to say we stayed home from church. (staying home from church always seems to throw me off for the week and i don't know what day it is for the rest of the week.)

we thought/hoped it was just a 24 hour bug and not something more serious. his fever was like a yoyo most of the day but never got over 103. he up chucked a couple more times and added some "peeping" to the mix later in the day. ("peeping" is what you get when a three year old describes diarrhea. not fun!)

by monday, we thought he was acting a little more normal but by 11 pm his fever spike to 105 and he had thrown up in his bed while sleeping. i tried to wake him so i could clean him and the sheets up but he wouldn't wake. i woke js up from his napping position on the couch. js put pbs in a cool bath and we gave him some children's ibuprofen. his fever was all over the place and not going down. he was so lethargic. it was all so scary. we finally made the decision to go to the er.

there are several er's to choose from in our area. so we went to the one with the children's hospital first. they were swamped! so we left and went to one that's a little closer to where we live. i sat in the
backseat with pbs and kept checking his temperature while js drove. we arrived at the er and got in right away. i'm so glad they could see us so quickly. the nurses and doctor checked pbs out and he was quite
cooperative. he was even asking some questions, maybe not medical questions but he was responding to them. (i've asked him a few times what he wants to be when he grows up and his answer has always
been a doctor.) they gave him some anti nausea medicine and that seemed to help. we were on our way home by 3 am. what a night!

pbs still had some "peeping" on tuesday, but his fever was pretty much gone. the "peeping" lasted until yesterday. he hasn't had any so far today. plus he's pretty much his normal happy self. i, on the other hand, have been shared with and started with the "peeping" this morning. i hope js can stay healthy for all of us. i hope that we can get back to normal and not be icky sickies any longer! i also hope that nobody else gets this yuckiness! i know i don't like being an icky sicky! stay healthy!