Meltdown City

Well, we have experienced our first real sickness this week.  When I say real sickness, it means Josiah actually has had to take an antibiotic.   He started running a fever on Wednesday, so we did the normal Tylenol and ibuprofen.  By Thursday night, he had a HORRIBLE cough and didn't get much sleep.  Thursday night, he was coughing so bad that he threw up.  After throwing up, he asked if he could go see Ms. Leah so she could make him better.  How pitiful is that!?!   Instead of waiting for Monday to come around, we went ahead and made an appointment to see Ms. Stacy on Friday.  He didn't get to see Ms. Leah, but we told him that he was going to see Ms. Leah's friend, and he was totally fine with that.  Ms. Stacy said he has a lot of junk in his chest and wrote us a prescription, but said we could wait to give it to him if we wanted.  Friday night was a ROUGH night--from 7:00pm to 10:00pm he woke up three times.  After the third time, I brought him to our room and propped him up on some pillows which didn't help.  So finally, I sat up against the pillows and held him in my arms.  He slept much better, but lets just say I didn't get much sleep.  Chris and I decided that if he didn't nap well on Saturday, then we were going to go ahead and start the prescription.  Well, he didn't sleep very well by himself so back in my arms he went.  So we went ahead and gave him his first dose of antibiotics.  Well, I have heard horror stories about kids being on antibiotics, but I thought that it was made up.  I have heard about how aggressive kids are. Well, I can now say that I am living these horror stories.  In the last 12 hours, Josiah has pushed Sophie over, talked nasty to me, had multiple meltdowns, repeatedly pushed his rocker ottoman into me, and put his hands over Sophie's mouth and nose. So I am praying that tomorrow is a better day--that he catches up on his sleep and is a little less aggressive to all.

Sophie did start running a fever, and I thought we were going through round two of what Josiah has, but last night I found a tooth that has come through. She has been having some meltdowns, too.  At one point, they were both having a meltdown.  I was so exhausted by this point that I wanted to throw myself on the floor and scream and cry like they were, but I decided that it probably wouldn't get us very far.  We are praying Sophie's fever was because of her tooth.  Please be praying that Josiah will get over this soon and that we all stay safe.