House of sick

Ok, two days to go to Disney, and the whole house is sick. Yesterday morning and the night before, Anna couldn't stop coughing, the baby had buggies all over her face when she woke up, I had a sore throat, and Jason had a tight chest. Mary, with her very strong immune system was fine yesterday, but woke up this morning coughing and has the sniffles. So, yesterday morning I called my pediatrician to make an apt for Anna, and they try to tell me that I couldn't bring her in, that they were booked for the next three days.
Here is how the conversation sounded:

"Hello, Dr. Jabri's office"

"Hello, I was wondering if you might have any open appointments today, my daughter Anna is not feeling well?"

"No, I'm sorry we are booked through Thursday"

"Well, we are leaving for Florida on Thursday, couldn't you squeeze her in?"

"No, I'm sorry, what day do you come back, I could make an appointment for her then!"

"Well, what should I do for my immune suppressed child that was up all night coughing until then, if you go ask Dr. Jabri he would want to see her, I'm sure he would."

Only minutes later she comes back on the phone,

"Ok, Dr. Jabri would like you to come in, could you be here in an hour?"

I don't know why they always give me a hard time, they should know us by now. My Dr. always sees Anna when she needs to be seen. I also brought the baby with us, just to basically ask him what to give her and how much. She wasn't very bad yesterday anyway. Anna only has a chest cold, but she sounds sooo bad. I almost feel bad that I brought her in for just that, but she has had bronchitis in the past that required antibiotics so it is better safe than sorry. The Dr. gave her a breathing treatment, then a RX for some heavy duty cough syrup. She wasn't coughing as much last night, but when she does she gets stuff up so that's good. Now, last night Anna slept fine, but Alexandria couldn't sleep at all. She was so stuffed up and she doesn't know how to handle it. She had to sleep in her swing because when she lied down she couldn't breath. I spent the night using saline drops and the nose plunger on her. This morning, everyone woke up miserable. Even though it is very hot and humid out today I have got the windows open to air out the sickness in this house. We are all lining up to take medicine. I need to do some laundry before we leave, but I am having a hard time getting started on my day. Poor Jason had to go to work today, and he might have it worse then all of us, he sounds horrible.
Please pray for us, that we will all get over this in the next couple days so that we can enjoy our trip.



Here is Anna not feeling so good being comforted by her daddy.