The madness all started last Wednesday night around 1200AM. Chad sat up in bed and said "I don't feel very good!" Then I heard Carsten crying and throwing up in his room almost the exact same time! They were both sick all weekend with vomiting, chills, fever. I took Carsten to the doctor on Thursday to some guy that wasn't his usual doctor, my first mistake! This crazy guy gave him a shot of antibiotic and then sent us to the hospital to get a urinalysis (since Carsten has a history of urinary tract infections and he had a high fever, 104!) Well, the people at the lab said why in the heck did they give him that shot before the UA, now we're not going to know what or if he had an infection. I was flaming at this point and mind you Chad is still at home on the couch vomiting. I got fed up finally and left the hospital with the bag still on Carsten's you know what waiting for him to pee! I took the sample back later and never even found out if he had anything, the doctor never called us back!
Chad was feeling better by Friday but then he pulled his back out picking up a pumpkin outside our house! He went back to school that morning and I was still exhausted from two days of no sleep with sick boys. I'm running up and down the stairs trying to get ready for Carsten's music therapist (which wasn't even coming by the way) and I slipped and fell down the stairs! Yep, landed flat on my back and hit my head really hard and blacked out for a couple of minutes. I finally could see enough to go outside thinking that if I passed out for good maybe someone would see me. I stumbled down to my neighbors house who is a nurse leaving Carsten in the house alone. She got another friend to get Carsten then we called Chad out of class and had our second trip to the ER for the week! I'm sure the doctor thinks we're a bunch of crazy loony hypocondriacs! He didn't even do any xrays, said I might have cracked a rib and had a mild concussion.
This was probably the hardest week we've had since we moved here and I'm SO glad its coming to a close. Carsten is still sick with diarrhea and not sleeping at night because of vomiting but he's definitely better than he was. We're still all really tired and SO ready for Thanksgiving and a break! I feel like its one thing after another with our little family and keep asking what's going to be next? Please pray that we would be free from illnesses and setbacks for a while. Carsten hasn't eaten anything since he got sick last Wednesday so naturally I'm pretty discouraged. On a more positive note, he did drink some water from a sippy cup a few times this weekend so that was exciting.
Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels!
Love,
The Bridges
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