The lack of a good medical history on the boys is frustrating on a good day. You know going into international adoption that it's great if you get anything in the way of medical history and then if you do luck out with some information, it might not always be accurate.
Eli appears to be the one who was healthy from the start and still is. Outside of a bean in his ear at the age of 4, falls (multiple) from bunk beds requiring stitches and the usual boy things, he's good to go. Lucas is the one we worry about.
He seems to have had every childhood illness that you can imagine. Add to that he has had multiple bouts of pneumonia from the age of 4-8. Thank goodness he's been relatively healthy since coming home (outside of the baseball he took to the face last summer). This winter has been a tough one it seems like the flu bugs and the strep throats and yes even a case of mumps has been hitting our area hard.
We watched and waited, no fever, a cough and sore throat. Wouldn't you know it, Sunday morning he spiked a fever and can't speak above a whisper and sounds like a barking seal. Complaining that his chest hurts. We don't have an Emergi Care Center close so Mike packed him up and took him the hour trip into Omaha. At the end of the day we were waiting to hear back from a strep test but doctor thinks its a virus.
He spent a miserable Monday on the couch, didn't even bother to beg for video games or tv. The mom's one sure fire method of knowing the kid is seriously sick.
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