It has been a quiet few days. Steve is still in Ireland and the boys and I have been laying low. Yesterday morning Henry woke up with a fever and a sore throat. I have been dosing him up, alternating between tylenol and ibuprofen, but his fever always comes roaring back just as the drugs are wearing off. This afternoon I finally took a look in his throat and it was not looking good. So, the three of us set off for the University Clinic, which is on the medical school campus on the south side of the Main River. We arrived and were seen by a doctor within 10 minutes. He took a look and his diagnosis is a bacterial infection, but not strep. How he could tell this from just looking, I am not sure. He did say that Hen's lymph nodes were not swollen, and that this was an indication that it isn't strep. So, we are holding off on the antiobiotics for at least a few days. We needed to settle up out bill before we left and I braced myself- the total for our visit was 21 euros. That is right, about $30! I shudder to think what we would have been charged at home.
I have taught Charlie and Henry how to play solitaire. In their version it really isn't solitary, but rather a group effort. It is an interesting way to play and they spent hours playing last night and picked up the cards again first thing this morning. At this point the cards have been shuffled so many times that they are getting a little soggy!
The other bit of news around here is that we now have a tv in the apartment. We have actually always had a tv, but it requires a digitizer to work. When Hen came down with his bug, I realized that the three of us were going to be close to home for a bit, so I asked the house frau for a digitizer. We successfully hooked it up and now we have television in German. The boys have been enjoying the Simpsons, even though they have NO idea of what they are saying.
Tomorrow Charlie is supposed to go to school with Merit, our friends' Fabian and Almut's oldest daughter. Merit is in fourth grade also and she is fluent in English. Henry was supposed to go as well, but given his present state we will keep him home. The boys were going to spend the night out at their place, but since Henry couldn't go Charlie decided to stay here tonight and we will take him out there first thing tomorrow. It will be an early morning!
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Hi there, and greetings from Ewing!
ReplyDeleteI've tried to view your blog before - unsuccessfully - until I finally tried Googling it, and there it was! So I've read some of your adventures and seen some great pictures! It sounds like you're having a great time. I'm so sorry to hear Henry isn't feeling well, but with those German doctors on the case, he should be better in no time!
Things are quiet here in BioLand - the news flashes are that Marcia, Janet and Leeann are having a "girls weekend" this weekend with Miriam in Puerto Rico (I'm sure you could have gone if you weren't already in GERMANY!!); and Ray has decided to retire (although that has not been announced yet - he just told Marcia today). Students are doing research, faculty are mentoring and whatever you all do in the summer, and we staff are trying to look busy....
Hope you are seeing the sun in Germany (especially so late at night - I remember that being so cool when I was in Europe!) - because WE haven't seen the sun in weeks! It's been cloudy, cloudy, rainy, cloudy, rainy, stormy, rainy...you get the point.
Continue to have a great adventure - keep posting those pix and descriptions of your adventures - and stay safe and well. I guess I should get back to medical letters or something biological....
Take care -
Helen, for everybody in Biology