One Week on the Brink

Last week has been tough on the whole family. We’ve been to the ER twice, and straight to the doctor’s office once.

Last Sunday night I managed to drop the hot tub cover on my foot. I managed to limp through the whole day Monday, but by Tuesday morning I was in extreme pain. At Kim’s behest I went to the ER and had them look at my foot. While it was not broken, they ordered me off the foot and issued a splint and a pair of crutches.

Wednesday started off normally enough — when you consider I was on crutches, but while proctoring a midterm exam I was informed that Kim was suffering from extreme abdominal pains. Another trip to the ER ensued, this time the diagnosis was kidney stones.

Thursday started with I both at home, struggling to get the girls out the door for school. Unfortunately, by midday the school nurse called to inform us that one of the girls was running a high fever. After picking them both out, we found that Tessie has a temperature over 103°. After a long night, we managed to get her to the doctor the next day for diagnosis of H1N1 flu.

The rest of the week was pretty much a long bout of all of us laying about the house trying to recover. Thankfully, Little Allie has been a trooper and helping us all. Currently, I’m much better, Kim is still waiting for her kidney stone to pass, and Tessie is running an intermittent fever. This next week looks to be at least a little better than the last, but there’s still a lot of recovering to go.