he had the pig flu!

yep, daniel was oinkin' a couple weeks back with the swine flu! :) although, it was not very funny at the time.

he had been having an annoying cough for about a month, if not longer, that started from his allergies. finally went to the doctor & they said he had bronchitis (which i thought was odd-it was not like the bronchitis i've had!), they gave him a z-pack & a steroid inhaler. that very next day he was so much worse, we didn't know what was wrong. he began having fever & coughing pretty bad. that night (or next morning) he woke me up, calling me from the bathroom. he was laying on the floor & couldn't move. i took his temperature & it was 104!!! uh, that's not good. i called our doctor's office & left a message for them to call me right away in the morning. i didn't know if he was allergic to the medicine, or what i should do.

brenden was home from school that week (we took him out of primrose-that's the next post-i have so much to catch up on it's not even funny), so i took him into work with me for a bit, so he wouldn't have to be home with daniel. his fever had gone down like 2 degrees, with quite a bit of medicine, so i thought he was ok to leave for a bit for some rest.

one of the times i called to check on him, he told me to come home & take him to the hospital-which i was shocked for daniel to say that. on the way to the hospital, all i could do was pray. i swear, i just knew he was going to go unconscious on me. he was not good at all!

our primary dr made us come by his office first, so he could do blood work real quick (because if it was the flu, we didn't need to go to the hospital). blood test came back negative for flu. he told me to go ahead & take him in, thinking it was meningitis. by this point, i was shaking-so nervous! they took him into the ER right when we walked in. while we were in there, his fever finally started to break, after like 8 pills!

so, more blood was taken. thankfully this ER dr didn't think it was meningitis, so daniel did not have to do the test from his spine to check for that. but the flu tests still came back negative. come to find out, with the swine flu...only 10% of the people that have it, do their tests come back positive! what's the point of the dang test then?? they gave daniel some medicine to take home & we were able to leave that night.

the turn around was amazing. the next day he was so much better. you would've never known how sick he was the day before. here are two pictures from the hospital...

brenden playing games on my phone & texting bubba & bamaw :) daniel trying not to die...
and, attempting to fix his hair-he knew where these pics were going. haha i told him don't bother, it wouldn't do any good, he hadn't taken a shower in like two days!

we are very thankful he's all better now! i know this is a bit long & drawn out, but i wanted to get it all documented while we remembered it :)