A week with Ailments all around


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The story of this ailment season began on Thursday evening when my husband came from his work with fever, sore throught and feeling coldness. I gave him the paracetamol with anti-allergy tablets. He felt better for a while but the night was very painful for him. His fever increased with a horrible headache. I never saw him complaining about headache this way. It meant it was unbearably painful. Within the four hours of getting two tablets of paracetamol, he had got high fever again. I dressed his head, arms and hands with wet strips of cloth. As his fever reduced, the headache also decreased. After giving a cup of tea with Rusk I gave him medicine, and then he could sleep. I doubted he might not have got covid but thanksfully when he went to the doctor on Friday, the medicine worked well and he didn't get the fever again.

On Saturday morning, I saw the symptoms of allergic flu in my younger son, Hunain. He is asthmatic and has allergy from weather fluctuations. For the last 6 to 7 days, the weather has become weired. At one point of the day it rains while at the other point it is hot. In such weather changes, I expect him to have allergic issues and so it happened. He had fever, I gave him paracetamol syrup.

When my elder son, Hussain, came from school in the afternoon, I realized he was feeling unusually tired. He had also got sore throat. Within an hour he started complaining of feeling coldness. When I checked, he had a fever of 100 °F. I gave him medicine and let both of them sleep.

When Hunain woke up, he had got the fever again. He complained about abdominal ache. I thought it was due to the cough he was having. I wanted him to eat something so I may give him medicine again. I gave him an apple but he couldn't eat more than a slice of it. He said he didn't feel like eating more. I gave him the syrup and he vomited at once. One... two... three.. vomitings in 10 minutes. Then his fever increased with the feeling of coldness. He had also been having breathing problem for which he had told me to nabolize him. I did in the afternoon, then in the evening. It helped him relieving a bit but the fever kept on increasing. It fagged him out so much that it became difficult for him to keep his eyes opened.

After some time, Hussain also started shivering. He also got fever again.

While caring and serving both of them, I also felt body aches with dizzy head. It was the sign of approaching fever. I checked the fever of three of us. I had a little above 100°, Hussain 101° and Hunain 102°. All of us had cough and tap of water opened from our noses (I mean, the running flu). Thankfully, my husband had got better so when he came he took us to the doctor.

Saturday night was not good for me. After taking medicine my temperature had become normal before going to bed but amidst the sleeping I got fever again that remained till the morning. It became too difficult for me to get up and prepare the breakfast. My husband said he would prepare the breakfast. This gesture of care and love from him gave me the courage to stand up. I knew he couldn't complete the job alone so I helped him.

After having the breakfast, I took medicine that helped me relief from fever. Though I was still feeling lethargic but I became able to perform the chores.

In the Sunday noon, Husain got fever again. He had vomitings too. Hunain had got much better. He was serving his brother by giving him whatever he was needing. That's the charm of sibling relationship. They fight a lot but at the time of need they stand with each other.

Our room was giving the picture of a hospital's general ward with tub (for vomiting), nabolize machine, a tray of medicine (tablets and syrups), covering rugs, tissue roll and handkerchiefs spread here and there in the room.

It was not just my family who had been suffering but the family in the room beside ours, family of my brother-in-law, was also facing the same ailment season. 3 out of four members were having cough, flu and fever.

Sunday evening was better. Though I was feeling lethargic but had no fever. My kids insisted us to go to the park. My husband was not in the favor of going at all but the kids convinced us. They had a fun time there. I thought the outing would have a positive impact on their health but I was wrong.....

Sunday night was the worst with Hunain. He had severe asthma attack. Nothing was relieving him from his cough. He had difficulty breathing. He couldn't sleep the whole night, nor could I.

Throughout the day of Monday, his condition worsened. His fever reached near to 104° along with difficulty breathing and vomiting.

Monday evening I took him to the doctor again. He gave him injection and added more medicine to the already going on. It helped and he could sleep that night. There was a betterment in his breathing and fever but since Tuesday night, he is again having breathing difficulty.

It's Wednesday now. Today my husband complained about body and headache again. I am also not feeling very well. The cough is not ready to leave any of us. After coughing of one person, another starts. It feels like there is a race of coughing going on.

The ailment of Hunain has made him so frail. He is not feeling like sitting even for half an hour. He is showing tantrums for every second thing. He is becoming angry with me every now and then. He is not allowing me to move away from him. His foremost demand is to sit with him letting him sit in my lap. I am still sitting in the same position. Carrying on with chores and other tasks has become so difficult for me but the most difficult of all is to see my son in this much pain. May God give him and my family good health.

May God keep us all in the best state of health.

Remember us in your prayers, my Hive family.



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I'm sorry to read that you and your family are unwell. I hope you will all get better really soon.

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I wish you all the healing you need right now. How hard it must be to look after everyone, everything, and yourself at the same time.

I pray for strength for you and I know you and your family will be fine eventually. Love and light.

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Wow it seems like you described my household. I guess the difference here is that I know where our ailments originate. It's the daycare we send our kids. It's like a little petri dish of bacteria. I've seen them clean the place and take care of the kids. I'm satisfied with their efforts. You just can't take care of all the factors and have to ride things out.

I hope things are better for your family.


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Oh! Your family is also suffering. I am sorry to hear this.

We don't have anything like daycare to send our kids. There are only a few but they are too expensive and we cannot afford them. We have to take care of everything ourselves.

Thanks for stopping by @scholaris.pob sir.

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It was my pleasure to stop by. I'm not worried about my family. My kids have gotten sick so many times that we almost have a triage unit set up in our house. I figure since my kids were so young (3 and 4 years old) they were going to get sick frequently anyway until their immune system got old enough to fight things off on its own.

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A triage at your home. It means you are a caring father.
Kids do get on and off sickness but the asthma of my younger son has made me so tired and also has made me fearful. His sickness increases even while giving the medicine

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Yeah, my sons have inhalers, humidifiers, and nebulizers at home from when they were younger. They still use it today, but only when they get sick. They're not asthmatic though so I couldn't imagine what you're going through. From what I hear, sometimes kids grow out of it. I certainly hope that's the case with your child.

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