We've been Swined.
After our close brush with H1N1, we relaxed. We thought we'd escaped, we thought that our obsessive hand washing and use of sanitizer had worked. We were wrong. There's no escaping germs in the slobbery illness haven of the toddler room. While we haven't had the test to confirm that it's the Swine and not the non-pig flu, all signs point to pig - confirmed exposure at daycare, a CDC survey that says one in five kids has had swine flu this month, bacon cravings..
First, the swine flu tackled Axel and gave him a fever and a bonus dose of boogers. It was the weirdest sickness - a fever of 102, super cranky, then spastic couch jumping and handstand attempts. Axel felt worse when he had an ear infection and when he had strep throat. He's been disconcertingly cheerful. The sickness cycle has gone like this: fever, child curled up on the couch and a little extra weepiness, does of baby ibuprofen, happy toddler jumping up and down and madly giggling. It's more exhausting to try to coerce a sick energetic kid to rest than it is to give a sick, tired kid extra cuddling, juice, and Elmo.
On Saturday, Axel was fully recovered, still spastic but without a fever, cough, or aches.
Then, it came for the baby.
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