Attack of the fall viruses

It has been a rather challenging few weeks. The boys succumbed to no less than three separate viruses in as many weeks. First, they got Hand-Foot-Mouth disease, which can be really serious but in our case was just annoying. Cooper had some rough nights, as well as one day of bad fevers. Grant had one day of fever and then a few nights of multiple wakeups- and Grant did get a few of the characteristic blisters on his fingers, too. Matt and I both seemed to get "adult" h-f-m disease, which is super mild and in our house consisted of being whiny and having a sore throat.

Then they both got a mild cold. It wouldn't even be worth mentioning except that Matt got it from them and was pretty well sick for two days, and both of them seemed to be running a "most repulsive nose secretion" competition. Ugh.

Then, Grant ran a fever for two days with no other symptoms besides being very sleepy and grumpy. He was eating OK and would perk up periodically, but it was clearly a serious illness. On the third day he seemed fine, and then bizarrely on the fourth day he broke out in a subtle but nearly full body rash. So I went to Google and voila, exact description of Roseola, one of the zillion not terribly severe childhood viruses that nearly all kids get. Sure enough, in another day, the rash was gone and Grant was back to his perky chirpy self.

Then I got sick. Not badly sick, but grumpy, sore throat, lethargic, that kind of thing. Blarg! I feel about 95% of total capacity at this point, so it passed really fast, but still.

It is worth mentioning that ALL of this took place in less than three weeks. So aggravating!

OK, done venting. Tomorrow we are off to Ennis (near Yellowstone) for a family vacation. 5 day weekend! YAY!!