Winter Sickness

We have been sick nearly all winter long. That is crazy for me. I typically am not one to get sick that much. And, until this winter, my kids were never sick that much either. But, since October, we have had strep throat 3 times, a stomach bug 3 times (or was it 4 times? I've lost count now) and several colds spread throughout those as well. A couple of weeks ago, Burton got strep throat again. On day 8 or 10 of his antibiotics, he began running a fever again. We thought his strep must be resistent to the antibiotic, so he was put on a stronger antibiotic. But, on day 5 of 7 of that antibiotic he began running a fever and developed a nasty rash. So, even though we were in Oklahoma City for training for Matt's job and away from our regular physician, we knew we better find a doctor here in OKC and take him in to be seen. The doctor told us that the rash was from the antibiotic. A rash called erythema multiforme. He told us to stop the antibiotic, but he also wanted to do a CBC to make sure there was nothing more serious going on since Burton had been sick so much. The next day I recieved a call from the Dr saying that I needed to bring Burton back in to be seen immediately. I took Burton back in and the doctor said that his white count was too low. He thought that Burton probably had a virus like the flu or mono, but he wanted to have the pathologist take a look at it just to be sure. And he did a mono test as well. The next day the Dr called to say the pathology looked good (no cancer, etc!) and that the mono test showed that Burton had acutally had mono 6-8 weeks prior. And this was probably just a flare up of his mono due to him having gotten strep throat a couple weeks ago. We have never been so thankful for a mono diagnosis. It is nice to know that he has mono and now we know what we need to do to treat him for it (REST)!). Now we are just trying to figure out how to get an almost two year old to rest :)