Mother Knows Best

Last Thursday we got a little bit of snow but not enough to cancel school.  Here is Blake in the school parking lot Friday morning...

He was happy and seemed healthy as can be.  And then I picked him up at the end of the day and he still seemed perfectly fine.  But when we got home, only 2 minutes later, instead of playing with Brady like usual, he curled up on the couch and watched cartoons.  This is an immediate sign of doom.  I, like I'm sure any parent, HATE HATE HATE when my kiddos are sick.  My heart just breaks for them and so I was hoping that he was just a little tired from the week. Blake went from laying on the couch to asking Brad to build him a fort.  Oh, yay, he's not getting sick I thought, if he's well enough to play in a fort!  Except shortly after the fort was built was dinner time and this is how I found Blake. 

On top of the fort, with his eyes closed, but not asleep.  He.was.pitiful.  When Blake doesn't want to eat dinner you know something is REALLY wrong.  Blake does not slow down with a cold and even some sinus infections and so I knew it was something more.  Fever and his throat hurt and I had a mommy instinct of strep throat.  Off to the doctor we went Friday morning.  Except the doctor said no strep and was probably just a bad cold.  I knew better.  I tried to argue with the doctor but something about an M.D. not being after my name for some reason made me less credible than him.  Hmmmph.   But my mommy instincts kept nagging at me all day as Blake was still pitiful.  I was cursing the doctor in my head all day.  And then Saturday morning Blake woke me up in tears.  Blake was crying because his throat hurt so bad.  So, back to the doctor we went Saturday morning.  The doctor on call took one look at Blake's throat and was like oh yeah, that is definitely strep.  Amazingly with one dose of antibiotic he was on the road to feeling better.  I kind of want to write the doctor that saw him initially an I told you so letter.   Mommy always knows best.  
So, the lesson here is to always trust your gut, I guess argue with the doctor until you win?  Or maybe the lesson is to wait and take your kid to the doctor until they are REALLY REALLY REALLY sick.