Life as a Leach

Our family had a rough weekend! First, on Friday, Abby's gtube really started hurting. The site turned red and was raised and spreading.  We called our pediatrician on call (who just happened to be OUR wonderful pediatrician!) and he suggested an antibiotic cream that I had in our med box.  You start a collection of those sorts of things when your kid has multiple stomas!  He said to call him on Saturday if the stoma wasn't better or if it was oozing.  Welp...it was.  So I called, and our wonderful ped saw her on Saturday morning when the office was closed.  He is SO great!  Abby got on an antibiotic and is turning a corner now! Saturday afternoon, Caleb jumped down out of his friend's truck and landed weird.  Saturday night, his knee started hurting really badly.  I took him to the ER Sunday morning for an xray.  Thankfully, it's not broken.  They didn't give him crutches and said that the best thing for a sprain is to walk on ...

Our house is a germ pit, and it's not because of a lack of disinfecting on my end!  Lord knows I've done more laundry this winter than I have ever done in my life, and the bleach/water solution has been my best friend.  However... *  I was miserably sick a week and a half ago.  I had a fever, chills, body aches, head ache, and nausea.    There isn't much that keeps me in bed (or from going to work, for that matter), but I could barely lift my head off of my pillow without getting dizzy and nauseous.  I was so appreciative to my sister who came over in time to get Caleb off the bus and watch both kids for the evening while Matt was at youth group.  Looking back, it was probably Flu B.  (See below vvv) *  Caleb tested positive for Flu B on Friday.  He'd had a fever off and on since Tuesday, and it spiked to 104 on Thursday.  He was given Tamiflu and seems to be on the mend.  He's excited to finally go back to school tomo...