Urg, sick!

I am hearing about a lot of sick kids and schools closed due to the flu. Well, I guess we are all in the same boat except Memphis does not have the flu, he just has a cold, but sick is sick and it sucks with any kid much less one that cannot tell you what hurts and how to fix it. I have been off work the last two days and we cancelled all Memphis's therapy on Monday and Tuesday and have stuck close to home. He is getting better and woke up this morning with just some congestion. So I'm thinking as long as tonight goes OK and we both sleep well, that I will be able to go to work tomorrow without to much worrying.

Then the school were Memphis gets his physical and occupational therapy called. The director of special education wanted to tell me that a student that gets PT and OT at Ed-tech is the hospital with H1N1. The real kicker is that the sick student had therapy either right before or at the same time as Memphis last Tuesday. Yeah, great, just awesome. Well, Memphis got his first H1N1 shot on Thursday, two days after he was exposed to it. Woohoo for karma. I calmly told the special ed director that I did not think that Memphis has H1N1, just a cold and he just asked that we keep them informed of how Memphis is doing. So then I hung up and proceeded to have a minor freak out. I called the Dr. and asked when I should get worried about Memphis and H1N1. They told me that he does not have H1N1 as long as he does not get any new symptoms, like vomiting and fever. OK, so he has not fever or vomiting so that is good, but we are supposed to take him to the Dr. at the first sign of fever or vomiting.

So then tonight during our nightly meds ritual Memphis decides to have a gagging fit. He does not, I means, HATES, the claritin and will gag whenever it hits his tongue. Then he gags on all the rest of the meds he has to get each night, i.e. seizure meds. We try to give him the claritin first and then let him settle down before we do any other meds. Tonight it did not matter and he gagged on his Topmax sprinkles and proceeded to throw up all of the meds. Awesome, sweet potato orange vomit with cold medicine smell and Topamax sprinkles mixed in. My favorite.

So after a quick change of wardrobe for Memphis, a high chair and floor clean up, we tried the meds again and I guess second time is a charm. So off to bed for all of us, so that if tonight is OK and everyone wakes up feeling well, it is back to our version of normalcy.