Antibiotics…
Today I kept Kathleen home from school and I'm particularly glad I did. We went to the doctor today for both the girls to check up on their colds. Sammi has a sinus infection and Kathleen has an ear infection. They are both on antibiotics and a cough syrup. And all are different with different dosages and different times. Thankfully only the cough syrups are on a "regular" schedule. Sammi's antibiotics are once a day thing, and Kathleen's is twice a day (12 hours).
Kathleen should have some ear drops but CVS didn't have any and she's not overly complaining about the pain, if she does I'll just give her some Tylenol as that seemed to help.
I wasn't overly concerned about their cough, but I was concerned that Sammi was still sniffling, she's had this cold longer than I've had mine, and Kathleen's ear has been bothering her since Friday so I'm glad I took her in.
Hopefully the girlies will get better soon.
Updates
Well, there are a few updates to go through that I've yet to post.
I have heard back from only one of the several applications I sent out thus far. All the others are still out there. I did manage to get find a number for one that I wanted to call. And I'll look into the others I have out as well. I am not sure what all I applied for now so I'll have to hope they sent me something in automated reply so I can follow up exactly lol.
I am still sick. My voice is thankfully better, but I have a lingering cough and sinus issues. I'll probably have this for a while, I almost always do. The girls are sick with something too probably the same thing I have, nasal issues and a cough. Kathleen was complaining about her ears hurting I hope that it doesn't require going to the doctor's office. Poor Kitten is having issues with her voice too.
Shea got the bugger too but he seems to be doing better. He went to the doctor and he got antibotics and a decongestant pill. Hopefully that'll fix him up nice and good lol.
Kathleen has school pictures on Sept 14th, she's suppose to wear fall attire, what the heck is fall attiire? I just hope I can pull something together for then. Right now most her clothes are spring/summerish. I'm sure I can make a dress fall by adding a shirt underneath, but I don't really have any fall type colors for her. Yellow maybe, but it's kinda dingy from two summers worth of kid dirt lol.
I'm having regular headaches again. I now know where most of them originate from, or at least I know what the left side headaches are from. I try not to take my migraine meds for them but alot of the time that's all that really works. Ice, heat, Flex All with a massage vibrator thing to push and poke at the injured areas. It helps as long as I keep doing it. Hot showers help. There is a lot that helps but there is nothing that can heal this, or make them go away completely. The best thing is the massage thing, but it's hard to do myself, and it's hard to tell Shea where it needs to be done to get the best benefit from. At least they aren't brain issues or anything like that. While they are annoying at least I have a cause for them in most cases. It's all the other times I am not always sure, but these ones on the left side when they reach down to my neck are all about scar tissue.
Feel like crap
Sammi was not feeling great a few days ago. She was drinking alot and now I know why, her throat her like h e double hockey sticks lol.
I spent the better part of the afternoon in bed sleeping to the best of my ability with three other people occupying the same room. That's the price you pay when you live in two rooms. I went to go read, but I didn't even open my book I just lay down and closed my eyes, not sure I actually slept thoroughly but I rested and feel better, not 100%, no where near it actually still extremely tired, and my throat hurts.
Not sure if Kathleen got it and gave it to us, or if it's something Sammi picked up. You never know with kids lol. Hopefully Shea and Kathleen don't get it.
Did some rearranging
Today I did some rearranging which meant a lot of cleaning too. Our bedroom looks much better, and I moved one set of dressers inside of our closet to make room for some more that we are getting later after they figure out what to do with the stuff that was in them, they were from Shea's Aunt's house.
I also rearranged the girlies room. I put there beds together in a "L" shape and moved the tv to another wall. It opened up the room better and will allow me to put in a dresser in there if it's stable enough to hold the TV too. Though I could always just move the little TV in there as we won't be taping much I'm sure but you never know.
We'll see how well it goes over tonight with them sleeping so close, they typically share a bed so I hope it's fine. But we'll see.
You will never know how much stuff was underneath Kitten's bed. It's a solid wood frame with drawers, but we pulled the drawers out to get a better fit of the drawers against the wall (the girls break the drawers stepping on them). And all the toys that fell down the crack fell into those holes too. It was a major mess to clean up while moving things around lol. But it's all clean, there are tons of cars to be played with now lol.
I've a bit more rearranging to do in our room to fit the dressers in here, so that'll have to happen another day.
I also have to go through all the girlies clothes to figure out where I'm putting their clothes and praying they don't take them out of the drawers in their room. Fun fun.
I’m better, Shea’s not
Well I'm feeling much better today. I have a headache but that really is nothing to worry over as it's not making it impossible to work yet. But Shea has what I had yesterday on top of his eye still bothering him, tho I hope the latter is better.
One thing I'm beginning to realize is Kitten is not a morning person. It takes about ten miniutes to coax her out of bed and into the shower in the morning. Then it's a fight in the shower lol. It's good we don't always have a shower, tho she will continue to get up at 6:30a regardless, it's easier to get her moving for school with an hour wait instead of half an hour.
Sammi didn't throw a fit today when we left. She wanted to color, so I told her we'd color at school, but by the time we got home she'd already forgotten about it. She wanted Kitkat but she's understanding she'll be home later.
We are off to take Shea to the doctor, and I'll pick the kiddo up if he's still in there when we need to get her and we'll all come back to get Daddy.
Good Weekend kinda
Friday Kathleen went to school with no issues. Tho she did come home and get sick again not sure what that was about.
Saturday we did the usual. We were suppose to go up to Lucedale to help with some plumbing for a friend of ours but our plans changed Thursdayish with the information that McL was going to be at Shea's parents house. So we had to cancel on that as it was not a trip we wanted to make two days in a row.
Sunday we went up to Shea's parents house, I had to drive Shea's eye was particularly bothering him a lot more than it had been before. The girls and I went to church, and the girls went to Sunday School. I went to Sam and Joyce's and we waited for everyone to show up. McL showed up around 11:15 or so and we spent the time together with the whole family. The girls really enjoyed their time with their brother. And I hope he enjoyed his time with them, they get to see each other so little it's really nice for them to get to play together.
But Sunday wasn't a good day for me either, I didn't feel 100% most of the day, but it wasn't until the night that things went for the worst, I got the same thing Kathleen had. What's bad is I still have it today and have only really eaten crackers and drank ginger ale today. I'm exhausted and I have so much to do. Hopefully I can get some of it done.
Kathleen went to school and enjoyed it, she didn't even fuss at all when I had to leave. She's starting to really like it I think. Yay for her.
PBS shows
We've recently started putting the tv on to PBS. While that it does have Barney we can easily change the station to something else for half an hour at 11:30am. But typically it's not an issue as the girls don't really watch tv too much. Typically when Kathleen isn't hope Sammi is playing or coloring. When Kathleen is home the TV is on but she tends to go off and do something with out watching it. But I've found several of those shows on Netflix.
Super Why! is really good for Kathleen right now as I think it's helping with her alphabet and reading. Sid the Science Kid teaches them about science type stuff. These are two really good ones that they've been watching a lot lately and I'm glad we found them. There are a few others that they watch but these are the ones that stick with me really.
It's definitely a break from Dora or Sponge Bob. Though I could deal with Phineas and Ferb all day lol.
Day 4 no go
Well it turns out Kathleen wasn't faking her headache. This morning she wasn't feeling well, but when I asked her if she wanted to go to school she said yes. So I watched her and made sure she was functioning and she was up until we got there, and then her breakfast ended up on the ground.
Since we were at the door I rang it to get in and told Kathleen's teacher she just got sick so she wasn't going to be making it today. Apparently two others were sick yesterday with a stomach bug as well. So hopefully it'll be over today with out much issue. I picked up some children's pepto which had a dosage for 2 to 5 year olds and that with some orange juice seemed to make her feel better so hopefully she's not gonna get sick again. She had a few crackers we will see if they stay down.
She asked at 9am if she could go to school now she wasn't choking. I feel bad she can't go but she doesn't need to get other kids sick. She's coloring now so hopefully she'll forget easily enouh.
Headaches
I know I mentioned it breifly in my last post but I spent most of yesterday in pain with a headache. Today is not much better, though today's headache is not incapacitating so that is good.
However I am not the only one complaining of a headache, so is Kathleen, after school today she came home and passed out in the bed for a few hours. She is acting a bit better but still complaining about having a headache. I feel for her but there isn't much I can do about a headache, if Tylenol didn't help any.
We are not exactly sure what it is, but it has to be something otherwise it wouldn't have progressed like it has through the family.
I just hope she'll be fine in the morning.
Day Three – Schoolitis?
Today Kathleen woke up with a "headache". Not exactly sure if this was an excuse to stay in bed, or from school. But once she got ready and dressed and all that, it was "Mommy it's time for school." She went with Ms. Tammy with out complaint as I signed in. It wasn't so tough today with Sammi as Shea was sent home because of an eye injury from yesterday was making seeing hard. So she stayed home with him. And he had to calm her down and she was when I came home. She sat in my lap for a while on and off through the day, and now she's coloring in her book - more like drawing since it's not actually got pictures in it.
I bought the girls some composition notebooks (as they were $0.25 for them during school sales) and they don't tear out the pages easily so they aren't scattered all over my house. Which is mostly what the floor gets covered with so they've been drawing and writing their names and letters in them. Well mostly Kathleen, Sammi won't copy but that's okay.
I'm not sure if Kathleen's headache this morning was real or not but I gave her some Tylenol just in case and took her temperature which she didn't seem to have a fever. I told her teacher she had a headache and to call me if she was not "better". I've not gotten a call yet so that means she's at least feeling okay. But I am concerned she might be sick. Two days ago Shea had a headache and his stomach wasn't feeling well. Yesterday I had a headache and my stomach wasn't feeling well. However my headache morphed into a full blown migraine by the middle of the day. So today it's likely she has one and really isn't feeling well. So hopefully it's not really her being sick and just her not wanting to get up and go.