A New Day, A New Case of the Flu

At 4:00 this morning, my poor little Asa came down the stairs, crying. I heard him coming and knew what was going on, so I opened the door long before he came near. He would have busted open my door and come right in here for sure. I sent him to Jeff, who dosed him up with Motrin. It was decided that Linda would take all three kids to her house, so they left early, picking up Asa's Tamiflu on the way. The good news is that both Addison and Asa started Tamiflu early enough for it to be helpful. Maybe it won't last very long for them. I certainly hope that's the case.

I have to wait 48 hours for the virus to die off in the house. Then, I need to disinfect EVERYTHING. My friend, Leila, went to the store for me and bought new toothbrushes for everyone who is well. I have a full can of disinfectant spray and tons of clorox wipes. If I am the one who will be sanitizing the house, I will wear gloves. Heck, I'd wear a Hazmat suit if I had one. I cannot let Olive get this... it is not anything to play around with!

I talked to Mom this morning and she is incredibly sick. There is no way anyone can take care of kids in the worst part of this flu. Hopefully, when Linda does start coming down with it, Randy will be there to help take care of them all. Ivey seems to be basically over it. If she does not have a fever all day today then she will have been fever-free for 24 hours. I am hoping to be able to get Jeff to go pick her up on Sunday and bring her home... stripping her from her contaminated clothes and giving her a good bath before letting her loose in the then contagion-free house.

It will be hard to keep the boys while sick, but it would be impossible to keep Ivey, too. Then, once the boys start getting well, we can shuffle them back home... by someone who is over it completely and no longer contagious. I'm betting Jeff would just go get them, too... unless by then Mom is completely over it and fever-free for a while. Again, they will be coming from a germy home with assumed-to-be-future-sick people... so everything they come home with will have to sit untouched for a long time and then washed very well. This is crazy. Seriously crazy. If I am able to emerge in a couple days I am going to have to get my sore post-partum butt out of this room and clean, clean, clean.