Influenza B

I hope I can catch up with some blog posts tomorrow but for now here's what's been keeping us busy. Lee and Mary Clare came down with it on Valentine's Day. We were in Boone and I thought MC probably had a sinus infection so I brought her home since Lee and Margaret Rose had an obligation that kept them in North Carolina until Monday afternoon. MC had a miserable night on Sunday with vomiting and a high fever. We were at the pediatricians office early on Monday where they did a nasal swab and diagnosed her with the flu. All of us (except Lee who can't take them) had a flu shot but the doctor said they'd not been very effective this year with the strains that turned out to be prevalent. He was great though and wrote all of us prescriptions-tamiflu for MC and relenza for the rest of us. The relenza was suppose to treat Lee since he obviously also had the flu and keep MR and me from getting it. I don't think Lee got the medicine in time to do him any good but it did help me as I only had a mild case and Margaret Rose never got it at all.
Mary Clare was in bed all week and only started to perk up on Friday afternoon. It took us almost that long to figure out that the tamiflu was giving her terrible psychological side effects. We attributed her outbursts and night terrors to the illness but as she improved physically the symptoms didn't go away. We finally realized that an hour or so after giving her the medicine she'd meltdown and lash out at us over nothing. She was inconsolable during the episodes. The same thing happened with the night dose. She'd take the medicine, go to bed and then "wake up" about an hour later totally incoherent and terrified. Hopefully there will be another medicine that she can take when she gets the flu again.
We spent last week trying to catch up on sleep, work and chores. Lee still has a cough to rival Camille and it is wearing him out. It is 64 degrees tonight and we are all ready for spring despite the fact that our forecast calls for 1-2 inches of wet snow tomorrow.