Easy Come...Easy Go

Saturday Brad and I witnessed a small miracle. We picked up John and Molly on Thursday night from mom and dad's. We bathed them before we left so that we could put them straight to bed when we got home. As I was putting John to bed I noticed that he was burning up. He was fine when we left mom's so I chalked it up to weather and the ride in the carseat. Before I went to bed I checked on him agian. It was obvious then that he had a raging fever. It was 103.4! I gave him some Tylenol and checked on him through the night. He complained of a sore throat and a headache and I quickly diagnosed him with strep. When we got to the Dr. on Friday I could tell that he was concerned. The strep test was negative and when Dr. Lee looked at his throat I knew by his demeanor that something was not good. He did some bloodwork and concluded that John had a virus that had caused a paratonsil abcess. His right tonsil was so swollen that it was pushing his uvula ( the little hanging thing in your throat) to the side. He mentioned the word hospital but he let us come home as long as we called if anything changed. John was so sick. When we came home he walked straight to his bed. That night we gave him his meds and watched him closely. We discussed how it would take him several days to get better and we arranged our Saturday and Sunday schedules around one of us being at home and one of us being at church and the VBS Kick-Off on Saturday. We were ready. Well Saturday morning John was fever free and running around like nothing had ever happened. Brad and I were totally amazed at how he could get so sick so fast and then get well so quickly. They say kids are resilient.