Another Anniversary

Today we celebrate the day we FINALLY became a family of five living in the same house.  Seven years ago today we brought Addie home after almost 4 months in the hospital.  We celebrated, sort of.  I guess it's more accurate to say that we acknowledged it.  It's been one of those days.  And there begins a story...

Saturday morning at 3:30 I woke up with a sore throat.  I don't have tonsils, so I don't even remember the last time I had a sore throat that wasn't accompanied by nasal stuff.  I trudged through Saturday fully and punctually medicated with Motrin & Tylenol to keep the pain away and thought there might even be some achiness.  I just kept going.  I slept on the floor Saturday night with the twins and woke up again at 3:00 and had to have more Motrin in the middle of the night.  I was awake for about three hours, and ended up getting one more hour of sleep before the girls woke up at 7:00.  I felt okay yesterday morning/early afternoon, but by evening I was near tears from feeling so awful.  The Motrin was no longer doing anything for the pain, and I knew today would be a doctor day.  The fever I had been unknowingly treating finally broke around 3:30 this morning, thank goodness.  I got in to the dr. this morning and got a whoppin' shot of penicillin for strep throat.  The girls and Gary also stayed home today because they woke up with crummy throats.  They are all now on ten days worth of meds to treat round two of this nasty strep.  The toothbrushes are discarded, and I'm already planning to thoroughly disinfect the house in the coming days.  Hopefully we can totally get rid of this stuff soon.  I will say, though, that the kiddos have handled all this better than the adults.  The mama can't get sick, or at least can't get sick and be the vegetable she'd like to be.  The dad, well, he's not used to being sick and therefore doesn't realize how bad it can be.  I'm keeping him on a rotating Motrin/Tylenol schedule just like I do the girls until his fever breaks.  It's just like adding one more kid to the mix...