Bunch of sickies

We have had quite a month around here with illness and injuries. It started with Allyson at the end of April. She was having some "girl" issues and saw her primary care doctor. He wasn't able to get to the root of the problem and she ended up hospitalized on April 30 and May 1, and was out of work and school for a few more days after that. Thanksfully she is doing better now, just has some follow up appointments to deal with.
I managed to be a parent for 22 years without having a child hospitalized, and now have had two in about six months. We also have had more than our share of ER visits recently. The most recent one was on May 9. I had gone to PA to attend the CHAP homeschool convention and took Maddox with me since he is still nursing. He was such a trooper, rode well in the car, was content while we shopped and dined. Near the end of the day on Friday, he started getting fussy, very much unlike him. I skipped dinner that night to let him rest at the hotel, but he still was not acting right Saturday morning. After watching him for awhile, I realized he was not using his left arm at all. A trip to the local ER revealed that he has a partially dislocated elbow called "nursemaids elbow". Luckily it is an easy fix and he was back to his normal laid back self pretty quickly.
You would think that would be enough for one family for awhile, but not our family. The next day after church, Jayson complained he felt sick. He began a round of a stomach virus that went through him, Dalton, Maddox, and Ari. And to add insult to injury, Dalton started running a fever on Monday, along with a headache, that has endured off and on for the last week, and now Maddox and Phoenix seem to be coming down with it.
Please let this be the end of it. Maybe if the warm weather decides to come and stay for awhile.........