Bitten

It seems we have all been bitten in our house by a bug of some sort!  It started a few weeks ago with Allison.  Got a call from daycare, just as we were going to get the girls anyway, that Allison had a fever.  Sure enough.  Well after 3 days of a fever and then she woke up from a nap with a temp of 105!!!  Jesse took her to the dr. (I was at work).  They ran just about every kind of test and did blood work, everything was negative, so it was viral, which is what I figured.  But her fevers continued until last Monday, which was the day the dr. said to bring her back if she still had a fever!  So, she was over it.  Well, then Allison got a stuffy nose...which, of course, led to an ear infection!!  And the first antibiotic she was on upset her stomach!  Poor baby!  So after trying to force it down (and then of course it only stayed there for 5 min.!) for 3 days, we stopped it and saw our pediatrician on Thursday.  New antibiotic seems to be doing the trick.  And in the meantime, I came down with a fever, sore throat, body aches!  I was starting to get a sore throat, but got my flu shot anyway, which I don't think helped!  Ended up with a fever that night.  Blamed it on the vaccine, went to work the next day, fever again.  Ended up coming home sick!  And now I am finally feeling better!  I still have a sore throat, but I have my tonsils yet, so I am blaming that.  They are swollen and huge.  I did have a strep test done at work (we can do them at the lab there for $15, FINALLY a perk of working at a hospital!) on Friday because I was feeling so miserable, but it was neg., of course!  So, I am trying to be patient.  I am hoping this isn't a sign of how our winter is going to go and instead we are just getting it out of the way early!  In either case, I think I will be flexing extra medical next year...