A Sick Christmas

This Christmas has been a but of a sickly one.

It started with Baba, fighting an illness for so long and then finally succumbing to it on the 17th December the day after his school play. All of his symptoms suggested tonsillitis but once we got to the doctors they said he had a virus. I walked out of the doctors convinced we would be back within a week with tonsillitis, we took 11 days.

Boo was next to go down with the bug, or virus as we were told and on Tuesday we were in the doctors with him. Again told it was just a virus and to take him home and give him Calpol and Nurofen which we have been doing for both of them.

Christmas Eve Mr felt ill and by Christmas day he really wasn’t well, he had a bad case of the virus but as the days have gone on he has got better and the boys have gradually got worse and worse.

By yesterday neither was really eating, neither was getting rid of their temperatures no matter how much Calpol or Nurofen was given, they just seemed to be getting worse.

Mr L and I decided last night that on Monday we would be making an appointment for both of them as something had to be sorted as this was just mental they weren’t shifting any off it.

Last night Boo didn’t gall asleep until nearly 11pm and Baba was up at 3am saying his tummy hurt and his throat hurt and he was hot.

This morning they were both hot. Like really hot. So we decided tomorrow was too long to wait they had to be seen today.

It was a call to 111 and a lot of deciding as the operator and the doctor that first called all thought it was just a virus. It wasn’t just a virus I knew that but they needed to be seen.

Luckily the receptionist listened to me and booked them both in to the doctor this afternoon. Even though they are presenting the same symptoms, basically like s virus they have two completely different things.

Boo has a double ear infection, and Baba has tonsillitis. So two loads of antibiotics and two ill children who don’t just have a virus later we are now home and curled up on the sofa.

I am hoping to have our crazy little monkeys back soon winding us all up rather than having one asleep on me and one asleep on Daddy.