This week was a tough week for everyone. I had an exam on Friday and was very busy studying. The kids were very sick, and Jill scratched her cornea.

Early in the week Ben was still taking an anti-biotic for his ear infection, then he started getting the runs. We assumed it was from the anti-biotic, but read on dear reader, read on. After taking his anti-biotic for about four days, he broke out in hives. I was worried that he had developed an allergy to the anti-biotic. The doctor seemed to think that Ben was allergic to shrimp, which we had with some pasta 24 hours earlier. Ben didn't eat any shrimp, but Jill did, and she's still nursing him.

Then, May started coming down with something, we thought it was a sinus infection, and so did the doctor. The next day, however, May started throwing up and having diarrhea. We took her off the anti-biotic and she had the runs for a few more days before she broke out in hives. It took her a day or two to recover her strength, and she'll be going back to school at the next available opportunity.

Jill and I both came up with a diagnosis of rotavirus.

Anyway, on Wednesday Jill scratched her eye, so I cut my study afternoon short and came home to help her figure out how to get herself to the doctor. I looked in her eye and couldn't find anything and then we decided that she had to go see her doctor or go to the ER. Her doctor was out, so a neighbor drove her to the ER down the street.

After that, I drove Jill and the kids around to get some medicine and Jill called a bunch of people and talked about what was happening. She would call them and say, "I know that everything is going to be OK, yeah, I'm trying to take it easy." Then she would get off the phone and cry for a while before calling someone else she could be brave with.