on the oregon trail...

so in the past two weeks we have had croup, whopping cough, ear infection, sinus infection, pink eye, roseola, and hives. oh, and by "we" i mean harper and calvary. thankfully, the weirdness has been evenly dispersed between the two children. calvary started us off with the loss of a voice which apparently meant the group/whopping cough. we treated that with a heavy dosing of the always favorable predisone. between us--i think i preferred the calvary with no voice to the calvary hopped up on predisone. about 3 days after that calvary moved on with an ear infection and a sinus infection. our only sign with this development was the devil he had become. i sent him to the doctor praying that there was indeed something wrong because if there was not i wasn't sure if i could handle the person he was becoming. just as we finally had him all squared away, harper's school called and said "not to worry, harper just has a red itchy rash all over." not to worry-ha. so i left school and rushed to her school. when i got her to the doctor she determined that it was pink eye (what?) and roseola. the roseola i could see, the pink eye left me skeptical. sure her eye as a little swollen, but pink? oh well. she's the doctor. she told me that roseola was not an itchy rash but my daughter's immune system responds to viral attacks by sending out the hives...thus adding to the redness of the roseola with her own defense system of red puffy hives. this isn't the first time that harper has been sick and developed hives as a result. sigh. i feel like i need a covered wagon and some rations of the spring's crops. modern medicine and its vaccines have failed the murray family...its on to the local medicine man for our 14th century illnesses.