Ouch

Max had strep throat on Christmas. In fact, on Christmas night I ended up taking him to urgent care, and was thankful to be at Dave's parent's where there's urgent care 24/7, instead of having to take him to the ER. He recovered really quickly once he got antibiotics in him, and we moved right along. The rest of the kids had some version of a cold, and complained off and on for a bit, but ultimately ended up going to school once school was back in session. And then Abby got an infection in her thumb. Needless to say, it looked really painful so I took her to the doc. They had to lance it, but as worried as she was, she didn't even feel it. The pressure was so bad that they just touched it and it opened. They cultured it and it came back as... a strep infection. Likely, she had strep throat and then chewed her nails and her thumb became infected. And I win parent of the year!