Clarademic 2007

So the week before Thanksgiving both kids were home from school sick. The whole. week. Then we got to Ohio to see my family and Clara's croup took a turn for the worse and we ended up going to an urgent care clinic twice in that week. Three medications and a chest x-ray later, we headed home and she was doing better. But that week was rough. Poor Clara had croup with _horrible_ coughing spells, fevers, diarrhea with horrible diaper rash, double ear infections, and a canker sore. All that combined with a 3 hour time change and all 4 of us sleeping in the same room. Oof. And then there was Jacob who was recovering from pink eye and an ear infection. And before we left, Katie started vomiting and running a fever. Ben started running a fever. The week after we got home we heard that Ben & Sarah both had double ear infections. Then we found out my dad had been off work with fevers and horrible coughing, couldn't sleep, etc. and after a week ended up having to go to the doctor. Emmett's spiked a couple of mysterious fevers and had to leave school early. And now tonight I got a call from my Aunt. She didn't sound so good. She started off the voicemail saying how she'd heard about Seattle's bad weather but then quickly transitioned to saying how great it was to see Clara but her croup had definitely been attacking nearly every person she had come in contact with.

Oops.

Sorry everybody!