QUARANTINE

This picture sums everything up pretty well actually. Let's start from the beginning...

Last Saturday (Halloween): Steve wakes up with a fever of 101.5. He gets sicker as the day goes on; cold chills, aches, dizziness.

Sunday: Same as the day before.

Monday: We take him to the doctor's to get him tested for Swine Flu and for a doctor's note. They confirm it's Swine Flu...luckily we had already started him on Tamaflu Saturday night.

Tuesday: Steve starts feeling a little better, but still takes the day off of work. Teigan wakes up burning!! We take her temp. and it's over 100.0. We take her to the doctor's and they test her for Swine Flu but the doctor thinks it Croop. We take her home and give her some medicine for the fever and she just sleeps all day.

Wednesday: Steve goes back to work. Teigan still has a pretty high fever but she's up and running. Finally at 5:30 that evening the doctor's call back and confirm the Swine Flu for Teigan! They fax in a perscription for Tamiflu but my pharmacy was all out until the next afternoon!

Thursday: I am finally able to start Teigan on Tamiflu and cough medicine.

Friday: Teigan's fever has been gone since Wednesday night. She's finally starting to act normal...

Saturday: Teigan just coughs at night and has a bit of a runny nose during the day. But no fever!!

Sunday: We were able to go to church as a family!! And the QUARANTINE has been lifted from our home!!

*WHEW! It was an exausting week for all of us. I've gone through the house and disinfected EVERYTHING I can think of at least twice! I am forcing everyone to wash their hands all the time and use hand sanitizer for everthing! I'm just thankful that I haven't gotten sick...thank you vaccination. I just don't want to have any left-over germs around when Sawyer comes...I can't deal with anymore sickness!!!! AHHH!

Happy Halloween!

This year I wanted to make Teigan's costume since I have had the urge to be crafty lately. So I searched and searched for ideas that I thought I could handle & in the end, I came across this...

A cute tutu witch! It was a lot easier then I thought it would be, although it did take a lot of time. But it was worth it! Teigan was so excited to wear her tutu! And when I explained what Trick or Treating was, she was even more excited about the whole thing! It was so funny...she kept asking all day, "we go trick treating and get candy now?"

Here's my little witch after a big night of Trick or Treating (for the first time). She did so well; running up to every door all by herself and saying,"Trick or Treat!!!" Then she ran back every time saying, "I DID IT! I DID IT!!" The only thing missing was Steve...he came down with the flu. So we left him home and went out with the stroller and went to all our neighbor's and ward member's homes.

Posing for Mommy.

This one is my favorite! It was at our ward Trunk or Treat.

Oh My Gosh!!

So like I said in my last post about getting Tegian the swine flu vaccination, I went today. It was a sort of "drive thru" that started at 1pm. I really wanted to get there early but I had a doctor's appointment at 12:10 that I had to be to. Luckily, Dr. Barton was really fast and we were out of there before 1. So I headed over to the Convention Center to wait in line. The line started at the freeway entrance to go out to Bloomington!! It wound around past Player's Grill, back behind the Convention Center and finally ended in the parking lot. Not a very far distance but...we sat in line from 1:15 until 4:25 pm!!! It was the worst!! Teigan started freaking out soon after we got in line and it took her forever to finally fall asleep...at 3!!! She stayed asleep for about an hour and woke up cranky. I don't blame her though. I was just as cranky!! I had to use the bathroom half way through but there was no where to go!!! It was so uncomfortable!! Then when we get there for her to get the mist, they tell me that I have to come back in a month for a boost shot!!!!!! WHAT THE!!!!! I asked if I could set an appointment for that, but they weren't sure. They just told me to call back in a month and someone would be able to answer my questions. SIGHGHGHGH!! We got home at about 5 and I'm just letting her do whatever she wants for the rest of the night since she was in a car all day long. So she's having cookies right now and waching a movie instead of having dinner. Oh well, like they say "pick your battles" right?