For the past few days I’ve been deal­ing with our first real cold. Up until now my boys have only had head colds. My eldest son had never had a fever above 99 degrees so when he began run­ning fevers from 102 to 104 degrees you can under­stand that this Mama was con­cerned. On Sun­day after­noon I took him to urgent care because he was exhibit­ing flu like symp­toms and a girl down the street had tested pos­i­tive for H1N1 and he was so not him­self that I was actu­ally really worried.

Thank­fully he tested neg­a­tive for both the nor­mal influenza as well as the piggy flu and neg­a­tive for both strep cul­tures. We’re treat­ing our­selves like we have a virus* so lots of TLC, rest, T.V, OJ, paja­mas, big snugly blankets,..oh, and cook­ies. Can’t for­get the cook­ies. I’d also like to state for the record that I haven’t cleaned my floors since last Thurs­day. If you don’t already know I’m a bit OCD when it comes to my floors. I am happy to say how­ever that the hubs totally cleaned out the closet with me. Yes, he did most of the work-but when your head hurts so much you can barely lift it, giv­ing orders is hard work.

I just real­ized for about the third time today-that today is in fact Wednes­day. I don’t have a Word­less Wednes­day pre­pared, but my lit­tle guy went to school today-and I of course have been doc­u­ment­ing a bit of our expe­ri­ence with the help of my iPhone’s cam­era. Here is a brief story via pic­tures of how our first real cold went.We are of course not done yet as the lit­tle guy and my hus­band and I our still work­ing our way back to top form so I can’t promise you there won’t be any more sicky-poo pic­tures. I do have a story about this obnox­ious dude with a spi­der bite from our brief stint in Urgent Care. I’ll post about him a lit­tle later…

As I men­tioned a moment ago Mike went back to school today, but on Mon­day when he real­ized that he wasn’t going to school he became so upset he lit­er­ally cried for about 15 min­utes. I hope this abject ado­ra­tion of acad­e­mia con­tin­ues well into his 30’s espe­cially if he’s going to become the doc­tor and Air­man he says he wants to be when he grows up. I felt so bad for him though…I think he might have been a bit deliri­ous. I hear fevers can do that to you!

*The Urgent Care physi­cian looked rather skep­ti­cal when he revealed our neg­a­tive results for the flu-that I am a lit­tle mis-trustful of them being accu­rate. He even said that if I wanted to I could go to my physi­cian and have them re-done because “false negative’s hap­pen”.  Per­son­ally I didn’t think that the nurse got a good nasal swab sam­ple from Mike-I mean the cue-tip thingy barely got into his nose that wasn’t all boogery because he’d just blown his nose…I of course am not a nurse, or doc­tor, or even pre­tend to be one on T.V,so I couldn’t say with absolute cer­tainty if the nasal swab was good enough. I have watched plenty of CSI and ER to know what I think one should look like and it didn’t look like a good one if you can count tele­vi­sion as a reli­able source of med­ical infor­ma­tion. I did once write a post on How to Avoid Get­ting the Piggy I mean Swine Flu, but I don’t think that counts either.  I will say that if Mike wasn’t bet­ter yes­ter­day he would’ve seen his doc­tor, but since he was show­ing marked signs of improve­ment I didn’t think it nec­es­sary. If his lit­tle brother isn’t any bet­ter by Fri­day we’ll be pay­ing a visit to our lovely, and oh so won­der­ful doc­tor. Who I’m know would make sure an excel­lent nasal swab was achieved.

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