Random observations...



This is the time of year that it seems everyone has some sort of little illness or bug. Our entire household seems to have had some sort of crud for the last month. During all of this, I have noticed some major differences between men, women, and children.


Everyone knows that the standard indicator for illness is when you are running a temperature. I recent had some upper respiratory issues, and ran a pretty high fever. It got up to about 99.8. I'm telling you, I was at death's door. It was bad enough that I had to go to the doctor twice about 2 weeks apart for 2 shots and 2 prescriptions

A couple of days later, Shelly came down with something. She had more symptoms such as runny nose, but had just a low grade fever of 102 or so. Not really even enough to go to the doctor to get medicated.

On New Year's day, we noticed that Matthew was feeling a little warm. The kid acted like he was feeling fine. No cough, no runny nose, and no complaints. The kid was running over 102 fever. We gave him Tylenol and checked it later. It was down close to normal, and he was still acting like he was fine, so we went ahead with our plans to visit my parents. After we got home that night, he was running higher fever again.

As a precaution, Shelly took him to the doctor the next day. Would you believe that the test revealed that he had the flu? Amazing since none of us has ever had it, and we all had our flu shots. We all received prescriptions for Tamiflu. Matthew was the only one we got filled. At $50-$60 per script, Shelly and I chose not to bother getting them filled unless we starting showing symptoms.

Matthew HATED the Tamiflu. I guess it was bitter tasting. It was a fight to get the kid to take 3/4 teaspoon twice a day. You can force a baby to take medicine, but a 4.5 yr old is a different thing altogether. Threats, bribes, whatever. The kid had a million reasons why he didn't need to take the medicine. The best one was when he complained that it smelled like hineys.

I smelled the medicine. I don't believe it smalled as bad as a hiney...