Week from you know where...

What a week for poor Zachary! We celebrated their birthday on Saturday and on Sunday afternoon he ended up with a fever. We would have NEVER expected what was going to happen next. We were still planning on celebrating their actual birthday with a dinner out. Well Monday came and we still had a fever which at this point is in the medium range. So we cancelled dinner out. Tuesday, their birthday, we ended up at the doctors office. The only symptom...a fever...a very high fever. His throat did look sore and with such a high temp (104.9 prior to leaving for the doctor's office) she felt it may be Strep throat. We did the test....it came back negative and eventually the culture did too. We did get antibiotics right away. Wednesday comes no improvement, in fact he is now showing signs of a viral infection (runny nose, cough and rash). We are barely keeping his fever at bay...we were making it just 6 hours between doses of Motrin. Six hours is the minimum amount of time between doses and we were just barely making it, the fever would spike to high amount right before I could dose him. So I called the doctors office...they said keep doing what I was, give the antibiotics time to work...normally 48 hours is the ideal amount of time to give for symptoms to start to slow. Wednesday he spiked again at 104.8, so I stripped him down, put a cool cloth on his head and made him drink water. So Thursday morning we are back at the doctor's office...a few more symptoms. Now it is starting to look like Mono...grrrreeeeat, just what I want to run thru my house! So we took some blood...Zach is such a trooper. Friday I finally got the fever to break...wooo hooo! By Sunday Zach was looking more like himself. Monay I got back the Mono test...negative...thank goodness. So it was a really BAD case of Tonsilitis. I felt awful for him...he barely ate, could barely stay awake and would use all his energy trying to play and then get pooped out. It was nice to see the real Zach on Sunday. The other two enjoy seeing him too. They were a little bit jealous of all the attention that Zach was getting. Just happy he is better and we can go back to school! After dinner one night the boys decided to operate the remotes...too cute.