I guess I used this as our journal.

Samantha has been sick since last Tuesday. We took a day off on Tuesday to take care of her. She had high fever and had no apatite to eat. At least she drank milk and water. She started to cough too. We were worried. We called CHA to for advice. "Plenty of rest and water and don't worry about no food. Just make sure she is hydrated. It is probably a flu." they told my wife.

Her condition worsen on Thursday and Friday. Elsa called in sick on Friday to take care of her with mom. We have been sleeping with her in her room since Thursday as she wakes up every 20 minutes. We also wants to monitor her fever. She has been on pain killer meds since Wednesday every 4-6 hours as her fever keep coming back. Mom already got her flu. She was weak and needed more rest. Thus we took over the late night shift since Thursday.

She was worse on Friday and Saturday. We all have to take turns keeping her monitored. We were all very tired but see her feeling miserable hurt us more than anything else. She had running nose and constant coughing. She cough so bad that she threw up a few times already. Some on our carpet. We learned our lessons fast as her puke stinks for days on our carpet. My wife told me we ran our of carpet cleaner on her last puke on Saturday.

Mom had some rest but still go to work on Saturday. Samantha slept almost all day on Saturday. We brought her to CHA to be sure she does not have any other issues or sickness besides flu. We were very worried. The doctor was an Asian lady, very nice and thoroughly examined her. She diagnose her with RSV. Since is viral, she has to fight it herself. We can only support her emotionally.

We started to feel weak due to lack of sleep. We might also got Samantha's flu. We stayed strong as we know she needed us most. We were so tire holder her constantly. She is now about 30 ibs and she is heavy if I need to hold her for a few hours. In addition, she wanted us to go up and down the stairs all the time! We will have to ask her why when she grew up. I started to develop a strategy to handle that. I started to walk up really slowly, so by the time we got up, she already forgot that she wanted to go down!

Sunday was a good day. She slept quite often and we slept with her as well. She slept at about 4:30pm and did not want to wake up until 7am. She was still tire but at least did not have a fever for almost 20 hours already. Still coughing. At about 9pm, she started to play with us and wanted to participate in games and dances. We were all very happy to see her smile and dance again. She surprised me again when she actually went back to sleep at about 10:30pm. We all took turns to take care of her that night too.

We had a ice storm today (Monday). Dad did not go to work as there are too many fallen trees on the road and he can not get out of Ann Arbor around 6am. He took a day off. power was intermittent as well.

We went to work as usual without incident.