Plague House, Part 2.

What started in, oh late November with all three kids picking up a winter cough and sniffle has now been drawn out into mid-January. First Molly picked up conjunctivitis right before Christmas. We thought we all dodged that bullet as she recovered and no one else developed it. Everyone had a dry hacking cough with Daddy and Jo caught in earnest just before New Years'. I was so miserable I quit smoking. (YAY!)

On New Years Eve, I took Jo to the E.R. with a 102-degree fever due to secondary infections in her ear and throat. My misery continued into the new year and I finally broke down a week-and-a-half ago, went to the doctor and got some powerful antibiotics for whatever secondary infections I had picked up in my sinues and throat. Jo and I are fully recovered and just as we thought we were out of the woods, on Sunday Laura started hacking and coughing. She had to see the Doctor (same as mine) on Monday anyway but he said she didn't show any signs of secondary infection (the chest thing is viral) and didn't prescribe anything other than a codine-based cough supressant. Then this morning Laura woke up with bright red eyes. Yes, the return of the Pink Eye.

Arrgh! God, I hate Winter.