Go away sick days

We are hard up around here.  Sickness has invaded us and it feels like it is never going to leave.  Both of my girls have been hit by it.  These days it is around the clock coughing, wiping noses, taking temperatures, being amazed that the temperatures are still there, breathing treatments, fevered bodies laying on mama, the singing of "Jesus Loves Me" over and over again to calm down the fevered ones, rubbing backs in the middle of the night and rounds of medicine.  Both Kyla and Ashlyn are feeling it.  All Kyla can do is lay down and I think she has watched more t.v. in the last three days than in her whole life (thank goodness for on demand Sesame Street/PBS Sprout).  Ashlyn has had a runny nose and cough for awhile that has turned into a sinus infection.  If you need to see a description of what hard up looks like, here you go....

Kyla exhausted and running a fever.  It has been days since she has taken a bath....the really old princess tattoo on her hand is the first indication of that

 I am not sure there is a picture more pitiful than this, but it pretty much sums up life for us this week

I am praying for it to end....they are so miserable and there is not much I can do except love them and make them as comfortable as I can.  Kyla has a virus that medicine can't do anything for and Ashlyn is on antibiotics....we will see who can spring back to life first....I am hoping for a tie....and really soon.  In the meantime we are.....

Eating popsicles to make our throat feel better

and trying to comfort each other 

and we are dreaming of days of health that look like our old selves a couple of weeks ago.....

 Little sis so happy to be with big sis

 laughing because it tickles

 and being so happy

Yes, those are the days we are longing for.   Praying for those days to come again soon and for my girls to be relieved of all of this.  We are getting really sick of sick days.......

***Update....after the original writing of this, we went to urgent care this evening because their coughs seemed to be getting worse.  Turns out Kyla has a double ear infection and got antibiotics and Ashlyn got a liquid steroid medication to help with the inflammation in her chest.  Like I said, we are sick of sick days, but thankful for medicine.