back in the saddle

welp...a new week brings on new ailments in the brown house.  jacob came into our room bright and early this morning, as loud as he could, telling us that his throat was sore. dang it!!  after getting a drink of water, he snuggled in our bed, on my side, and drifted off to sleep.  a mere 10 minutes later the alarm went off. ahhh!!!  anyway, josh also complained about his throat hurting.  josh was behaving just fine @ the breakfast table and thus was sent to school.  jacob stayed home with me.  i debated on whether or not to take him into the doctor...again.  i said a quick prayer and decided, after a phone call to the dr.'s office first, to take both josh and jacob in to see the dr.  josh's strept test was positive, but  dr. L wasn't convinced he had strept throat.  his throat wasn't red, no swollen glands, no streaks, no tummy ache, no fever etc.  dr. L thinks that he is simply a carrier and noted that the last time we were seen, the PA said the same thing...no red throat, no swollen glands, no fever etc.  however, the test was positive...round of antibiotic.  nice. jacob was also tested for strept, to which there was a negative result.  he didn't have a red throat, did have marble glands on both sides of his neck, but no fever.  but then when dr. L listened to his chest, he listened more intently.  he had jacob breath in and out quite a bit.  and for the first time in awhile we caught something and the dr. didn't want to wait and see.  jacob was wheezing.  dr. L thinks that jacob is asthmatic.  he said that the pneumonia, croop etc., was brought on by not getting treated for asthma.  his immunity was weakened and the wheezing went on to the cause other illnesses.  so, thankfully we already had chambers for the inhalers to go into, so jacob got rx's for albuterol, and flovent.  (that stuff is wicked expensive...$117 expensive...thank heaven's for insurance!!!)  lets hope that this is it and that wee man jacob will be feeling better soon.

while we were waiting for the dr. to come in, i asked the boys if they prefered a male dr. or a female dr., especially during physicals when nards have to be checked.  josh thought for a while, and said female, but quickly changed his mind to male.  jacob said, "i'll do it with a girl.  i like girls better with their cold hands. cold hands feel good on my balls."  alrighty then.