The Gay Family Blog: THANK GOD!

We have had a whirlwind of a week and it is just Wednesday. Drew had a great weekend and then Sunday night started not feeling well. By the time we made it to the doctor Monday morning his temp was 102. Not fun. After 3 strep tests, a RSV test and a flu test they finally did a finger prick. The tests came back positive for Mono. Yes, I said Mono. Next question - no, I didn't know toddlers could get mono either, but yes they can. Next question - yes, it means he has to stay out of daycare for 4-6 weeks. Hello, we both work, what do we do now. Luckily we have a wonderful doctor who wanted to do more testing to confirm. We went back this morning and tested again. After 2 days of worry and fretting today's test came back NEGATIVE. She thinks it may be a sinus infection paired with some sort of strep. He isn't contagious and will be on antibiotics for several weeks to get it handled. So back to school tomorrow and I am off to the airport shortly for California. Needless to say it has been a long week already. Drew just wanted to go to school and couldn't understand why we weren't going each morning. He stood in the hall yesterday morning saying "FWINDS, Mommy, FWINDS" aka Friends. He brought me my shoes and got his hat. He was ready to go. He will be glad to get back tomorrow and we will be glad he gets to go back. We are blessed to have a healthy, happy little boy. It is times like this that God sends us little reminders to be thankful for his health and for all we have. We are so very blessed and are grateful to God for all he has given our family, including NOT giving us mono this week.

Just a few pictures from last week and weekend. Some pre-haircut and couple with the hat on post-haircut. Happy week and thanks for all the prayers and concern.

Helping Dad with the puppies.

In case you haven't heard we weren't busy enough so Kevin got not one, but two more dogs.

They are Brittany spaniels (bird dogs) and Drew loves them.