Cold and Flu Season

Cold and flu season is defiantly NOT my favorite time of year. I love how the trees look when the leaves change, but I do not like the germs that go around! This cold and flu season has not started out very well for us. Anniek was sick with a fever at the beginning of October and ended up on antibiotics for an ear infection...she was fine a couple days after the antibiotics started, and for the rest of the 10 days that she was on them. The day after I gave her the last dose of antibiotics she ends up with ANOTHER fever...GREAT! So off we go to the after hours doctors (seeing as it is Monday night) and he barely looks at her and says that she is fine. She still had a fever on Friday so the family doctor saw her and she was on antibiotics again...the second time in October! Saturday her fever finally broke and she has been fine since then...other then the fever she got from a reaction to the H1N1 shot. We were both able to get it because of Anniek having a compromised immune system...we had to wait 3 HOURS in line to get the shot!!! Of course about 20 minutes after getting in line Anniek announces that she "HAS TO GO PEE" so I had to call someone to come stand in line so that I could take her to go to the bathroom...or take her to the bathroom while I stood in line. We both had sore arms the morning after we got the shot...and Anniek had a low grade fever from the shot, but I am glad that we both got it and don't have to worry about it. I am hoping that the rest of the cold and flu season won't be as bad as the start of the season has been!