Dropping Like Flies

Well, the flu has officially hit our home and the kids are dropping like flies.

Our first daughter to get sick had relatively mild symptoms. She was ill for three days and took one extra day with no fever before going back to school.

Our oldest daughter still at home was the second to get sick. She started with a cough on the same day her sister got sick. Her cough grew progressively worse but no other symptoms surfaced the first five days. The fifth night was a rough one for her. Her cough was so bad that every three seconds she was hacking away. She had woke up our two year old with her coughing, and as I lay in bed trying to help her fall back asleep, I counted the time between coughs. Well, in the morning there still were no other symptoms and because it's the end of the quarter and she insisted she was fine I let her go to school.

Not even two hours into the day, I get the call that she is sick and needs to come home. 102.4 fever and ALL the symptoms are now present. Just like that! By evening, I think she may have pneumonia and we take her to the late night clinic to make sure. No, lungs are fine. It's just influenza the doctor says and there's nothing they can do for her.

Fast forward a few hours to 3 AM. Daughter number three wakes up crying with 102.4 fever. Great. We Tylenol up and drink a glass of water and two hours later she falls back to sleep.

We had decided not to get the flu shot but even if we had expected to get it our area doesn't even had any vaccinations available yet to the general public. We, like a lot of people, will have had the flu by the time the vaccinations are available.

As I lay awake with my daughter last night, I just prayed to our Sovereign God for healing and no further complications. That's where I place my trust!