So Mazzy has been sick since Thursday with a sinus infection and a low grade fever. We took her to the Dr. and of course he gave her meds for her sinuses. I thought the low grade fever was just from her sinuses, which is normal for her to do. But then that night she starts with a full fever and a croupy cough. But it's not her normal croup that she gets...it's been really weird. And it hasn't eased, still a fever and still a cough. She looks pale and really hasn't done a whole lot, but color, watch tv, normal sick things, not too big of an appetite, but still eating and drinking, not too active, but not really lethargic or anything. But things are just not getting better. They definitely could be a lot worse. My mom and nephew have had the swine flu. My nephew Stryder started out like Mazzy, but he has got really sick from it (he started out with a croupy cough). Mazzy, is sick definitely, but she hasn't been too bad. So I thought for precautions, maybe I should call the insta care (seems it is the weekend) and so I called and talked to the nurse. She told me that they had seen kids with the swine flu that were real mild cases and that if she continued with a fever after 3 days that that is more than likely what Mazzy has. She told me where she wasn't too bad it would probably do no good to bring her in because she wouldn't be bad enough for them to send a swine flu test in. So to just go off of how long she has a fever. She said that her guess would be that she had the swine flu if the fever persisted. I don't know what to think or believe. I would think that if she had it she would be a lot sicker, but what can ya do to know if they won't run the test unless you are a severe case? I'll just keep her in until the fever and cough goes away....that's all I can do, I guess. There is so much other sicknesses going around, it's hard to know sometimes. I'm sure this is not very interesting to most of you, but I just needed to vent. I just hate it when my kids are sick.
