Finally on the mend!

Thank you to everyone for the prayers, phone calls and emails wishing us to get better, we finally are! Surprisingly everyone survived Mommy not getting off the couch for a few days, I ended up with strep too!

Update...the Perez house is quarantined.

After I wrote my last blog on Monday night I was feeling hopeful that we were almost through the woods but I soon realized not yet! Both of the boys were up almost that whole night, once an hour. Tuesday morning, Elijah had another symptom that I won't go into detail, just gross, you get the drift. Then he says his ear hurts so off to the doctor we go. Isaac was checked for flu, it came back negative. Elijah had an ear infection so off to the pharmacy for our one antibiotic. I dropped it off, we had lunch and then went back to do our grocery shopping. The pharmacy was backed up....imagine that! While we are making our way through the store, I am hit with the worst case of chills and body aches I have ever had. We were out of groceries at home so I had to persevere! Get home, put the boys down for a nap, unload groceries & then hop in bed. 30 minutes later Jimmy walks in (early from work) with fever, aches, sore throat...the whole bit. If you know Jimmy at all then you know he had to feel terrible. He never takes a sick day. We had just talked at lunch and we were both fine. Crazy! We both laid around all night and then called the dr. this morning. They could see us both at 10:15. Thanks to my sister-in-law Karin for advising me that it sounded like the flu so go get swabbed quick so you can get on Tamiflu. So basically....Jimmy has strep throat, Elijah has an ear infection, & Isaac & I have the flu! I tested negative for the flu but the Dr. said I was classic case and that the test doesn't catch all strings so she said Isaac had the same string of the flu that I had. Off we went to drop off 5 prescriptions!!! We are in bad shape!

Please no more fever!

Things around the Perez house had been pretty chaotic. We spent the majority of last week taking it slow, resting and letting everything that we had just been through sink in. Then out of no where, Elijah wakes up from his nap on Friday afternoon running fever. When he runs fever, you know it, he won't get off the couch. We have been stuck at home ever since...it just won't go away! He doesn't have any other symptoms and I have heard way too many times "It's just a virus, it just has to run its course" for me to rush to the Dr. Poor kid, he didn't want to sleep in his bed last night, he said we were too far away. We convinced him we would hear him over the monitor if he needed us but then I woke up in the middle of the night & he was asleep next to our bed with his pillow & blanket. Guess he had the last word. It made its way over to Isaac today, he woke up from his nap with fever! We watched cousin Brandon today while Mommy had to work so if Brandon can escape our house without running fever then he has a pretty good immune system. Just a couple pics of the kids coloring & painting (while the fever was broken)! I'm not sure of Elijah's new facial expression & hand gesture for photos...???

We miss you Dima.

Our hearts are broken as we have lost our 16 yr. old cousin Dima, who was like a little brother to us. He passed away Wednesday morning due to a brain aneurysm. But we have hope and know that he is with Christ and we will see him again. Visitation is at 5pm today at Simplicity Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held at Eagles Nest Christian Fellowship tomorrow at 1:00 P.M. Interment will follow at Resurrection Cemetery. Click here for the obituary and click here for the scholarship fund that Jimmy is working on. Please keep our family in your prayers.