We made it through September!

What a month September was for us! Why was it such a bad month...sick, sick, sick! One week I missed 2 days with Garrett and Robert missed one because he had a double ear infection. Then Robert missed a day because he had a sore throat. Throughout that whole week, Corbin had a bad cough, but never ran a fever or felt horrible so he went to school because he was working on perfect attendance. Unfortunately that was ruined the next week when Robert, Corbin, and I all got food poisoning.

Two weeks ago Sunday, we had a pork loin from Sams for lunch. We cooked it for over 16 hours in the crock pot and when we got it out to thaw it was in the refrigerator the whole time, but nevertheless on Sunday night about 1 am, Corbin started throwing up and having diarehha at his mom's and I started at 3 am, and Robert started at 4 am. Robert and I were horribly sick Monday morning and had no idea that Corbin was sick too. So at this point we are afraid we have shared the stomach bug and do not want Garrett around us. So we tried to call Robert's mom for help, but she had to do interviews for her job. Then we tried Cyndi but she had to work because she was going to be off another day. This is one of the major downsides to living over 700 miles away from my family! So, Robert made himself well enough to take Garrett to daycare. On the way, he called Crystal (Corbin's mom) to tell her we were sick and to watch Corbin and that's when she told him Corbin had started at 1 am. This made us think it wasn't a bug because it was too big of a coincidence that we were all sick at the same time. Usually with a bug, one gets well and the next one gets it in a staggered effect. So, Robert told Crystal to take Corbin to the dr. and then call and tell us what the dr. said. When she took him and told the dr. we were all sick and the dr. said given that and that Corbin didn't run a fever or have any other symptoms, he felt it was probably food poisoning and gave Corbin phenegran to rub on his wrist since he couldn't take it any other way. I had phenegran from my nausea when I was pregnant so Robert and I took that and it helped us. Garrett had a recheck for his ears that afternoon and Robert took him because he never did throw up just had diarehha and he felt better then I did! Cyndi came when she got off work and watched Garrett while we slept because we just couldn't function. Even though we quit throwing up by 9 am, we were still nauseas and had no energy and there was no way we could take care of a baby. Cyndi gave him a bath and I feed him and put him to bed. Then Robert's mom came and spent the night and took care of Garrett so we could sleep. Then she took Garrett to school the next day because we still had no energy. We made it back to school on Wednesday!

This past week, Robert missed Wednesday because Garrett's cough was so bad we wanted to get him to the dr. He has bronchitis. He is on his 3rd Antibiotic in a month and is taking mucinex and breathing treatments 3 times a day! He seems better but still has a rattle in his chest. I think he is teething too and going through a growth spurt so he has been cranky and when it's time to eat you better have it ready!

I am hoping October brings better things for us! Hope everyone is enjoying this fall weather! I for one am ready for cooler weather!