This month has been a rough month for our family in the health department. Both Charlie and Clark have been battling colds all month and recently Leo and I have joined them. Not to mention I noticed that Charlie kept on saying "what" a lot, like he couldn´t hear and he would tug on his ear and say it wasn´t working. We took him to the doctor and he had ear wax clogging both ears. We started putting some drops in his ears and that seemed to help. Soon after this however, about two weeks ago Charlie was the sickest he has ever been. Normally Charlie if full of energy and I am begging him to stop but for a week straight he was so sick and lacking energy I was begging him to lift up his head so he could sip some water at least. It all started on a Wednesday during the middle of night. Charlie started crying because he had thrown up in his bed and then several more times during the night. I took him to the doctor the next day. Normally Charlie does not want to go to the doctors and take medicine, but this time he was more than willing. The doctor said a stomach virus was going around and she prescribed some medicine to stop him from throwing up and a special hydration solution because Charlie didn´t want to eat or drink. Thursday was much of the same except now he also had a high fever. We started alternating fever medication but we also had to use cool towels to keep his temperature down. By Friday he conitnued to have a high fever up to 105 degrees and he was also suffering from diarrhea as well. Of course he didn´t want to eat or drink and he slept a lot. We couldn´t get the fever to break so we took him to the doctors again and it took three of us to hold him down so the doctor could see his throat. Consequently she could see that he had strep throat which was causing such a high fever. He had such a high fever for so long that his mouth was all white. She prescribed some antibiotics, as well as a suppository for the fever and medicine for the diarrhea. The poor kid was taking medicine every couple hours. Charlie finally regained his strength and started eating again on Tuesday and went back to school on Wednesday.
Clark on the otherhand has not come down with what Charlie had but he still continues to have constant snot which we have to clean out with a syringe and saline solution and he was also constipated so on Friday we finally had to give him an suppository which had results in less than 2 minutes. To add fuel to the fire, all this happened the same week I was in charge of decorating the church for a Valentine´s dance. I also had to buy the food for the party and buy flowers to make 60 small flower boquets all the while my kids were at home sick with Grandma . Thank heaven for Grandmas.
Not only do I write this post to leave record of a week I do not ever want to repeat again but experiences like these make you also reflect what a blessing our health is. It can be so easy to take for granted the bodies and health that we have but times like these make me realize how grateful I am to my Heavenly Father for my family and for our health. We should not take them for granted and we must recognize the miracles that they are.
Charlie and Clark´s medicine. From left to right: Snot and cough medicine, ear drops, throw up medicine, hydration solution, three fever medicines, , antibiotic, diarrhea medicine, Clark´s chest medicine and suppository. We kept the pharmacy in business.
Clark was very patient while I took care of Charlie. One time I set Clark down on the couch so I could go help Charlie with something and when I returned this is what I found. 
Charlie on the rebound.
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