It's Complicated

Mr. Strep.

He was feeling better yesterday already (although this picture was not from yesterday).

Ben came down at 5:30 yesterday morning coughing. Yikes.

We kept him home with Nicholas and Patric and took him to the doctor to get checked out.

Negative strep test. But he does have an ear infection and swollen tonsils and is sick in a general sick sort of way.

Fabulous.

None of this stopped anyone from fighting or tearing around the house all day yesterday nor did they actually take a nap. Fevers down, a round of antibiotic in, and we're back in daycare today.

Alida. Well she's Alida.

One report: people under two do not get strep.

Pediatrician reply: "And was this a pediatrician that told you this because that is dated information."

Okay, so we still have to spray Lysol down the babys' throats. Check.

Me?

I started to feel my throat tightening at the mention of strep, and I went to get myself checked out. The strep test was negative. Ears, nose, lungs, throat, nodes look good. Your anti-histamine must be working, says nurse practitioner student checking me out. Drive on. Two minutes later nurse practitioner boss lady walks in, swabs my throat a second time (a second time?!), prescribes an antibiotic and sends me home claiming the strep test isn't a good test, and they need to send a full culture out. Oh, bother.

Elaine=teething until the end of time.

Patric? He doesn't get sick apparently.

So off to the pharmacy.

My antibiotic=$0 (part of some wellness program)

Nicholas' antibiotic=$10 (love insurance)

Benjamin's antibiotic=$87 (hate insurance)

This happens to us whenever we have two on the same med at once. It seems our prescription drug carrier has yet to figure out that twins are actually two separate people, so they have them listed as the same person on our insurance. The girls had to share their last prescription, which should have prompted me to fix this, but things do get away from me at times. A few phone calls later, digging out social security numbers from the depths of our files, and a trip back to the pharmacy we seem to have it sorted out.

Ben's antibiotic=$87-$77=$10

Sick days are so very not relaxing.