So I'm starting to feel like Typhoid Mary (If you're not familiar with her, she was a nurse back in the day who spread typhoid fever to thousands of people). I thought we were all better, I thought we could go out in the community, I thought that we had "turned the corner". Not so much. Over the weekend my babysitter called and she and her little boy had strep, from us (as you can tell from the following). They were on vacation in Arizona for the holiday weekend (SORRY).
Easter morning we got the kids up, fed, bathed and ready for church. Since we have the 11-2 p.m. time (right during lunch and nap time) I usually bring snacks for Levi, you know, grapes, string cheese, less messy stuff. I looked over to comment to Rick and began to panic as I thought Levi was choking on a grape. No, he just had swollen glands... The size of GOLF BALLS!!! I whisked him out, looked in his throat, called my brother (a physician's assistant) and then sent Levi home with his dad. I would've gone too but had a lesson the next hour.
When I got home Levi was still awake so I grabbed a flashlight and looked down his throat again. Sure enough, he had strep.
Then on Tuesday, Rick finished his antibiotic and by Wednesday morning his throat hurt again. Long and the short of it, we took them to a specialist, Levi has tonsilitis and had to get bloodwork done because the doctor thought he might have mono as well. Rick has chronic tonsilitis and now they will be getting their tonsils out this coming Thursday . Hopefully we'll be all healed to go to Bear Lake the following weekend. At least Levi doesn't have mono like we originally thought. If he had, we'd have been Typhoid Mary of the Wedgewood ward.
Easter morning we got the kids up, fed, bathed and ready for church. Since we have the 11-2 p.m. time (right during lunch and nap time) I usually bring snacks for Levi, you know, grapes, string cheese, less messy stuff. I looked over to comment to Rick and began to panic as I thought Levi was choking on a grape. No, he just had swollen glands... The size of GOLF BALLS!!! I whisked him out, looked in his throat, called my brother (a physician's assistant) and then sent Levi home with his dad. I would've gone too but had a lesson the next hour.
When I got home Levi was still awake so I grabbed a flashlight and looked down his throat again. Sure enough, he had strep.
Then on Tuesday, Rick finished his antibiotic and by Wednesday morning his throat hurt again. Long and the short of it, we took them to a specialist, Levi has tonsilitis and had to get bloodwork done because the doctor thought he might have mono as well. Rick has chronic tonsilitis and now they will be getting their tonsils out this coming Thursday . Hopefully we'll be all healed to go to Bear Lake the following weekend. At least Levi doesn't have mono like we originally thought. If he had, we'd have been Typhoid Mary of the Wedgewood ward.
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Oh my goodness! I hope your husband and son get better soon! I can't believe they had to get their tonsils out at the same time.
And the typhoid Mary comment made me laugh out loud!
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