and another one bites the dust ....

and another kid was home sick today, and will be tomorrow too. This time it was oldest daughter.
she is complaining of light-headedness, low-grade fever, dry throat while talking, non-productive throat cough, and lack of appetite.

Its a virus, but not the same as the other. At first we thought it was mono so hubby took her to drs this afternoon, but the symptomes are the exact opposite ... no mono - good thing.

Oh well ... we will be having lots of soup around here for a while. now I just need to talk oldest into stopping by and getting the Gatorade the dr "prescribed" tomorrow after his classes.

I hope she is feeling better by tomorrow night though -- she volunteered to help out at the Girl Scout round-up Thursday night ... and hubby says if she isn't feeling better by Thursday then we won't be going up to the cabin this weekend, but he wanted to get up to pull the boats and get out the boat lifts and stuff so we won't have to try to squeeze everything in two weeks from now -- although we have been doing everything in one weekend for 20 yrs now, why change now?

I want her to get better so that the kids will stop getting sick.

I don't have any Listerine either, just Scope ... I use it to soak their toothbrushes in to kill the germs when outbreaks like this flare up. Lysol does good on handles, knobs, and stair rails ... but it won't do well for things like tooth brushes, cups ... even the dishwasher can't get the dishes clean enough for my taste when they start getting sick over and over like this.

I just hope it doesn't decide to do a second round ... geez, I'd have to quarantine them to make it all go away!