Flu in September?

The back to school sickness must be going around already!  Love this time of year - NOT!  Tyler was sick starting last week.  He had an ear infection and the antibiotic that they gave him didn't work so we had to take him back and get another one.  He also had breathing difficulties - possibly croup.  It was scary at first because you could clearly see that he was struggling to breath so I took him to the Doctor.  They said he was very close to being hospitalized because his oxygen levels were low.  The Dr. gave him a steroid and a nebulizer treatment at the office.  We ended up coming home with a steroid to give to him for a few days and we are now the owners of our own personal nebulizer!  He fought so hard having that mask on and we would have to literally hold him down for almost 10 minutes each time.  It was torture for all of us!  He has finished the treatments now and seems to be back to normal - although now he's teething!

We're not done just yet though!  Andrea was diagnosed last week with a sinus infection and the FLU!  It's only September and the flu already?!  Then on Monday, Zac woke up with a low grade fever and this morning he has the lovely sound of croup or the barking seal as they say!  

Hopefully this will all pass through us quickly and not return for a very long time!  I knew that we'd have more illnesses passing around now with two kiddos but that doesn't mean that I was ready to deal with it!

Oh yeah, and Tom is going to be out of town for work until Saturday night - doesn't it just always happen like that!