Phenonia

It's been going around our house with a vengence. First, Christine had a fever, sore throat, and a nasty sinus infection, along with a cough that wouldn't quit, and a few days of very little voice. Then Rebekah followed suit with a sore throat, fever, and a pesky cough. Erik too got caught up in the action - chills, fever, cough, cough, cough. Then Joseph and Jalen Andrew joined the chorus of coughs, and the shivers of chills. Meanwhile Erik never got better. He'd seem better for a day or two, but then would return to bed shivering, with his cough hanging around and getting tighter by the minute, in his chest. He went to see the doctor the day after Thanksgiving . . . Pneumonia (or as someone in the family says, "phenonia."