Being Sick is No Fun!

 Tuesday evening Beau started running fever over 102. We were surprised since he has already been on strep antibiotics for 5 days and figured we were over this! Wednesday came and the fever stayed with the addition of diarrhea. We were thinking maybe we just needed to finish the antibiotic and maybe he'd perk up. He was getting up almost every hour at night all week coughing and was coughing throughout the day. By Thursday morning he looked so awful I was thinking maybe we needed to go back to the doctor. When he threw up all over me a little bit later, I called Brandon and we made the choice to take him in. It was a good thing we did! The doctor tested him for strep and flu and while thankfully the flu test came back negative, the strep came back positive. Doc told us Beau's body had apparently not taken to the antibiotic so his body had had all that time to let the strep fester. In addition he also had an ear infection, poor guy! So they gave him a big shot for the strep, a week's work of a different antibiotic for the ear infection and a cough syrup. He spent a lot of the day crying and sleeping; it's been a sad day around here. But, now that we have the right meds we're expecting a quick recovery to the boy's old self! (I'll do his 20 month stat tomorrow)