Bumpy Start to the New Year

We had a little bit of a bumpy start to 2012. N started out the year a little cranky and tired. He finally spiked a fever of 103 one night and told me his neck hurt. I thought he may have slept on his pillow wrong and it caused him to have neck pain, so I gave him an ice pack and some Tylenol. He felt better and his fever went down to 99. He temp stayed at 99 all day then spiked again at night to 103. Hmm. This pattern lasted for a few days. It took me a few days (and some advice from a friend) to put it together that N had a soar throat (not a neck ache) and had symptoms of Strep. I took him to the Dr and that's what it was. She didn't actually do a Strep test (thank goodness!), but N had all the signs of Strep so she gave him meds for it and they worked.

At the same time that N was sick, I was sick myself. I've had three cases of significant pain on my right side in the last year. I drove myself to the ER on two occasions. On both occasions I was put through several blood tests, x-rays and sonograms. On my first visit to the ER the doctor was able to figure out the problem(s) and treated me for them and they went away. On the second visit to the ER I was put through another round of tests and nothing appeared to be wrong. The doctor went as far as to x-ray me for a collapsed lung and that looked fine! But, clearly there was something wrong due to the pain I was in. The best the doctor could do was give me pain meds and send me home. Well, I had another episode of this mysterious illness earlier this month and it lasted ten days! Ugh!! This time I didn't go to the ER 'cause I knew they couldn't do anything for me! I went to my doctor, she ran more tests and I went through a fancy x-ray study. The fancy X-ray allowed us to rule out several possible illnesses, but led us to no real answer...Hmmm.. So, my next step is to get tested for food allergies. I start that next week and I hope to get some answers!

Other than these two things, we've been just fine! Despite being a little under the weather, we are still doing fun things to stay occupied. Although, after being stuck at home with N (because he was contagious with Strep) for five days, we were glad to get out of the house!!! Being sick every once in a while sure makes you appreciate being healthy when you are healthy!