11 October 2010

The Great Quarentine

Interesting fact about the Boyds:  We've been under quarantine.

Gideon woke up Thursday morning with a swollen face.  No fever, just swollen cheeks and a raspy voice.  He had a bruised cheek but that was a week old, and he also had a scuffed chin from the bathtub but that was a day or two old as well.  I didn't know what to do for a swollen face.

So, I took him to the doctor.  She also thought the bruise and chin scuff were unrelated.  She thought Gideon might have the mumps.  He got a blood test and then all the children had to come in and get a shot just in case.  The kids did great getting their shots.

The doctor then quarantined us - the entire family - for 5 days or until the blood test came in.  No going anywhere, nobody coming over. Gideon's face was fine the following morning, but that didn't change the quarantine.

It was actually GREAT to be quarentined!  We've been really busy and it gave us an opporutinity for family time.  We read books, rearranged bedrooms, fixed things, did a giant puzzle, played games, and caught up on laundry.

Last night Josiah was cooking sausage for dinner.  The power went out while he was cooking and the sausage stopped cooking.  The whole house was dark except for a few flashlights for maybe 10 minutes. 

When the power came back on I finished cooking it and the rest of dinner.

Sam didn't eat dinner.  He threw up.  I thought "oh no!"  We've gone from mumps to stomach flu!  Then he mentioned he ate the sausage and it tasted really juicy.  I asked him did you eat it while the power was out?  Yes he had. And several other people had sampled it as well.  The sausage they had eaten in the dark was still RAW!  All the boys who sneaked some ended up either nauseated or actually throwing up.  The exception was Matt who said he ate whole handfuls of sausage in the dark and he felt fine all night.

Our quarantine only lasted 3 days.  The blood test came in this morning.  No mumps!  Also no explanation for the swollen cheeks, but whatever it was its gone now.