*clang* Bring Out Your Dead!

If someone had told me to paint the red X on the door sometime early two weeks ago, I'd have been a little better prepared for what we just battled. As it was, we made it out by the skin of our teeth, but we are happy just to have made it. Let me break it down for you.

Tuesday Feb 22 - Daycare provider calls early in the AM to say she is closed due to illness.

Wednesday Feb 23 - Same call. Kids both run low-grade fevers for the better part of the day, but are in good spirits.

Thursday Feb 24 - Daycare is still closed. Isabel wakes up a miserable, whiny mess. She has a really high fever and sore legs, won't eat and is a shivering, confused mess on multiple occasions throughout the day. Orin is still fine.

Friday Feb 25 - Orin's turn. The boy sleeps quite literally half the day. He is still drinking enough water, but isn't eating. He won't sleep on his own (which is usually not a problem) and quite literally sleeps on/snuggled with one of us for the duration of his illness both day and night. Still no daycare.

Saturday Feb 26 - Isabel seems to have improved. She has only a low-grade fever and is in slightly better spirits today. We are hoping this is the end. Oh, how hopeful we were. Orin is still so sick...poor guy.

Sunday Feb 27 - Both children are once again, extremely ill.

Monday Feb 28 - Both children are ill. Isabel is worse than Orin.

Tuesday Mar 1 - Orin is improved enough that I send him to daycare. Isabel is STILL spiking fevers of 103 at random, so I take her to the doctor, who says that it looks like it is still just viral and we should just try to tough it out. Tiresa is starting to get ill....low-grade fever, runny nose and slight cough. By the end of the day, her fever is spiking to unhealthy highs of 103 and 104. When Orin comes home from daycare, it is revealed that his fever spiked again in the afternoon.

Wednesday Mar 2 - Orin relapses, Isabel has STILL not improved and Tiresa is on death's door. Dave stays home with all three of the sickies. It is a house full of whining, moaning and general discontent.

Thursday Mar 3 - Isabel seems to be about 80% this morning, so she is sent to daycare. Dave goes to work and Tiresa keeps Orin home, against her better judgment, because he is still miserable. This made for little rest and Tiresa was wiped and near tears by the end of the day.

Friday Mar 4 - Both children are well enough to go to daycare. Tiresa throws in the towel on working at all this week. Her fever just wouldn't settle and the exhaustion was overwhelming.

Saturday Mar 5 - Both kiddies are 100% (though the tiredness from having been sick is catching up with them quicker than usual). Tiresa is about 60%.

I have never seen a respiratory virus like this. It hangs on for SO long. The weakness and exhaustion resulting from this flu/cold/plague is comparable to what I remember after having had mono. I am glad for my coworkers that I ended up quarantined for the most part because I would hate for any of them to get this over March Break.