Illness Report

I hope that I am not jinxing myself with this post... So far this winter (knock on wood) we have been very fortunate in the illness department. I had feared that as soon as HL went into kindergarten we would be inundated with nasty germs and steady colds. But, until two weeks ago, we had nothing. Then, two weeks ago, HL gradually started coughing on Tuesday. Wednesday, he was coughing but was well enough to go to school. By Wednesday evening, however, he was nursing a fever and coughing almost continuously. It was obvious that he couldn't attend Royal Rangers (explanation in a following post) that evening as he couldn't even get a word in between coughs to protest! That night, he coughed quite a bit in bed so when I woke up I asked him how he was feeling. "Not good", he said. I kept him home from school. But not an hour later, he was up and playing; still coughing, but feeling okay. Then, on this Tuesday (what is it with Tuesdays?!) AW started coughing. As with his brother, he was coughing a little on Wednesday but did just fine at preschool. I picked him up, we went to the post office and came home for lunch. Somehow between the time leaving his school and getting home, he became too sick to even sit at the table for lunch. He just laid still and quiet on the couch. AW. Quiet. And still. Unbelievable, I know. This is how I knew he was very, very ill. His temperature was up to 102.5, his breathing was shallow, his cheeks flushed, and his eyes were bloodshot and so watery that tears rolled down his cheeks. I called the doctor; he said it sounded like RSV and prescribed Prednisolone for inflammation. Within an hour of receiving Pred and Tylenol, AW was up, building Legos! And Thursday, he was coughing and still breathing a little shallow, but certainly tolerable- back to the AW we know so well. So, even though we were struck with two bad bouts with coughs, I still consider us very fortunate. How many parents can say that their child healed in just a day?!? And how do I get this ability; to heal so quickly?