The storm back in July made quite a few hail holes in our siding, so insurance is paying for new. The guys were supposed to come on Monday but didn't show until Wednesday. They stripped the house down, went to lunch, then came back and said they were leaving, as radar indicated rain coming within the half hour. It did rain, technically, but I would've called it more of a sprinkle. On Thursday it rained cats and dogs all throughout the day. Now today, Friday, they are banging away out there. I'm very excited to see our new look!
Here are a couple of "before" shots - back in August before we got our new roof.
A few "in between" shots:
They took the storm windows down on Wednesday so I walked around the outside of the house washing the parts of the windows that I hadn't been able to wash before. (Of course the rain on Thursday probably made it all pointless!) It was nice, though, to see the outside so clearly without the extra glass and screens. Hopefully they won't hang the storm windows back up with condensation trapped inside.
Now on to the doctor part of our week.
Alex started getting a fever on Sunday. It eventually got up to 103.3 that night and throughout Monday, despite alternating Tylenol and Motrin, never went below 100. By Tuesday he wasn't eating anything, was wandering the house aimlessly, crying over anything, and not knowing what he wanted. It was so hard on both of us! Tuesday morning I got him in to see our pediatrician. The doc thought it was probably something viral but did a swab to test for strep anyway. He was quite surprised when, 15 minutes later, the test came back positive. He kept asking how everyone else was feeling, if there was someone else we knew who had it - we all felt fine, and I could think of no one else who had strep. Quite puzzling. I wondered if Ajay had brought it home from preschool even though he hadn't been sick? The doctor said we could either go the typical antibiotic route, which is 10 days of medicine, and he would start feeling better in a couple days, or we could give him a shot and he would start feeling better that evening. I went with the shot. Alex still wasn't eating that evening but was moving around more and crying a bit less. By Wednesday morning he had improved a bit more. It still took him until dinnertime to decide he was okay enough to eat. But once Alex started improving, Ajay started going downhill! Tuesday we realized Ajay felt a bit warm, so I took his temperature and it was 99.8. The school rules say that if the childs temp is 99.6 or above at bedtime, he/she cannot go to school the next day. I kept him home from school on Wed and took him in to have a strep test done. We assumed it would come back positive since he was displaying the exact same symptoms (and moodiness) as Alex, yet it came back negative! Today is Friday and he still isn't eating. Luckily, however, he can drink Pediasure, so he's at least getting some nutrients and calories. I think the straw helps bypass the sores on his tongue, and he doesn't have to chew. He's talking by barely moving his mouth because it just hurts too much. I'm very grateful that Biju has been home all this week and that we've been able to take turns with the kids in the middle of the night!
And now this morning, Biju has gone to see his doctor. He was playing racquetball last night and did something quite painful to his knee. We're hoping it will just need a minor fix!
Alex at snack time - munching on a graham cracker, but ignoring the bananas. He still occassionally points to his mouth and says "pokey!" so I think that although he's better, he's still got some sores in there :(
Ajay camped out on the couch, feeling quite ill and grumpy about the whole thing!
Alex was feeling a bit better, so I slipped the bumble bee outfit on him.
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