Sick AGAIN

Chapter79

My daughters sickness is going to cause my entire head to gray. I swear.  She is sick EVERY other week (that's not an exaggeration)- ever since starting Kindergarten, she is literally sick every other week.  And it's never a MINOR cold, either.  It's always high fevers, ear aches.  This morning it was a sore throat, congestion and a 103 fever that I had a very hard time getting down. Finally, after 2 hours it broke and plummeted to 100.8.

I'm not a "run to the DR mom" but I finally called this afternoon.  Last night she said her eat hurt, but I'm doing childrens Ibu. every 6 hours (for both ear and fever and throat) and she's not complaining anything hurts.  But, we recently got a letter in her folder that strep throat was found in her classroom... so I called and made an appointment to get her checked, against my dismay. (esp. since her fever has gone way down).  I guess I'd rather waste the $25 copay and just make sure she doesn't have the strep or ear infection. Id feel horrible if she were walking around with someone and I didn't get it checked.

I just feel bad for my baby. She went from being sick once a YEAR to every other week.. she's always sick, and she hates it.  I hate these stinkin' germs in school!!!

Anyone else going through this since your child started school? 
Tell me it gets better, eventually? Her immune system WILL adjust, right? Gah.

Zenya

Oh I hear you.  Christopher has been out on I think 4 occasions so far since September.  One of them for a week!

 

His 1st year of preschool was the same.  Worse, actually. 

Mickschick

Logan (3) has been really sick this year. He has had croup 3x, the last time he had the cough upwards of 4the weeks and was put on prednisone. Then a stomach bug and the latest was walking pneumonia with a round of zithromax and nebulizer treatments 3x a day. We left his follow up yesterday where we were told his lungs are clear and he no longer needs the nebulizer and then get an email frombthe pediatrician that there is a croup/laryngitis outbreak. I don't even want to leave my house. Our pedi says illnesses are so bad this year because the weather keeps flip flopping and germs aren't dying.