Summer Sickness

When Miles gets sick, it just drags on forever. He started not feeling well on Thursday and by Friday afternoon he had a temperature that carried through Saturday. I called the oncall pediatrician and he prescribed some antibiotics. Sunday and Monday proved uneventful as we even managed to get out of the house to do our grocery shopping. This is quite the accomplishment considering it is 95 degrees every day and too hot to leave unless it is absolutely necessary. By Tuesday he had a fever again, so I took him back to the doctor. She had two thoughts about his illness: either he had a virus that was just dragging along and would take time to get rid of or he had some sort of sinus infection that was resistent to the amoxicillin. So to be on the safe side she prescribed a stronger antibiotic and told me to start it on Wednesday if things hadn't gotten a little better. Well of course he was still feverish last night, but played like he was fine, so I didn't give him any Tylenol and he woke up warm running about a 99-100 degree low grade fever. He wants to play and has actually eaten, so I am just leaving him alone, but this thing does not want to go away. I cancelled play dates for today and tomorrow and will remain housebound until the weekend at least. This has been an incredibly stressful week with the garage sale, the dog sitting I've been doing for three weeks coming to an end (FINALLY!!), being pregnant in the heat, and now the illness that won't go away and the lack of sleep that goes with it. Sometimes I wonder how we were crazy enough to want to this all again with another kid. Maybe this one will be the easy one....LOL!!!!