Tommy's Spring Break Fun!

I decided to cut this fabulous spring break post up into three posts or it would be one Looong post, and I don't know about you, but I get bored reading really long posts!

So Tommy's spring break was just as awesome as mine! His started out great, having the weekend of, taking care of his lovely wife.. but then I think it was either Saturday or Sunday night he came down with a fever, chills, aches, and a severe headache. Same old flu signs right? Wrong! I have never seen a fever as high is his, it kept climbing until it reached 103, and at 104 in children and I think about 107 in adults, brain damage starts to occur. :/ Besides that, this fever never broke! He had it for almost two days straight before he went to the Dr. So he was miserable, and I was miserable and our spring break was miserable!


He's cute even when he's sick and doing a breathing treatment!! ;) I'm severely biased though!!

But he finally went to the Dr. and got the diagnosis of what is call Q fever or Query Fever. Its a very rare bacteria that is transmitted by infected sheep, goats, and cows (his being calves), that gives you flu like symptoms but when tested for the flu, comes back negative (which his did exactly that). There is a mild form and a more severe form, and the more severe form can cause damage to you heart, liver, brain, and lungs, luckily Tommy's was caught early enough that the prognosis (i.e. outcome) is good!
The symptoms of Q fever are
-extremely high and prolonged fever
-dry cough
-sever headache
-neck pain
-ab pain
-chills
-N&V (Nausea and vomiting)
-night sweats
And Tommy had every single one of those!

Now to my Twin friends, yes this is the same bacteria the man in Dietrich who became paralyzed had, but no one freak out! Tommy's was caught early and is being treated with antibiotics, so were not going down the "any kind of damage to any kind of organs" path! Lucky for us it is a long recovery so even three days after taking antibiotics he is still having night sweats, fever, cough, headache and neckpain. :( I feel bad for the guy! I hate when he is sick!(and we hear a lot about it all the time,, right ladies? ;) But seriously, I don't blame him this time)

Yikes!! Puffy cheeks got in front of the camera!
This is us.... We are Sick!

So that is how we spent our spring break, and it was great!..