Taking care of a sick child...

Nolan began feeling bad on Tuesday afternoon. He has been running a fever and not feeling good at all. On Tuesday night, he said to me, "You need to take me to the doctor, I think I have strep throat." I, being the intelligent mother that I am replied "We'll see" while I was thinking..."it's probably just a virus...we don't need to go to the doctor." Yesterday Nolan was still feeling awful and my friend who is a nurse took one look at his tongue and said, "It looks like strep." My mom said that her boss, another nurse, said that the symptoms sounded just like a textbook case of strep.

We go to the doctor yesterday afternoon...they take a strep test and guess what? He was right all along...he has strep throat. He had strep throat last winter and I guess that he knew that he felt that bad again.

Why don't I listen to my smart little boy who is growing up so fast right before my eyes???