Sick Days

On Monday, January 13th, I took Dylan to the doctor as he'd been running a fever that weekend and complaining that his stomach hurt. he ended up testing positive for Strep. I told the nurse that I'd woken up that morning feeling like I'd swallowed broken glass and she suggested that I go get tested for Strep too. We stopped at a CVS on the way home to buy cough drops and I noticed that they had a walk-in clinic there, so I went in and got tested, and I had Strep too! The test was supposed to take 6 minutes but my culture lit it up as positive in less than 3 minutes.

While at CVS, I discovered these 'throat lozenge lollipops' in the kids' medicine section and thought that would be a good way to help Dylan's throat since I didn't want him sucking on small cough drops. I ended up liking them, too. They eased my throat pain but didn't have the bitter medicinal after taste that most cough drops have.



For the next two days, I felt really awful and had to take care of both myself and Dylan. Luckily, he is very easy to take care of on his own. At one point on Wednesday, he went in his room and said he was making something for me and didn't want me to come in yet because he wasn't finished. After awhile, I called out to ask if he was done yet and when I got no response, I peeked in and found this scene:

 

He was completely passed out, so I moved him to his bed and he slept for almost 3 hours.

 When he woke up, he called me in to see what he'd made for me: An Animal Parade! (So cute!)