What's this about!

Okay, so I mentioned that we have been hit hard with viruses- well let me elaborate. Katia got sick about a month ago with a bad cough/cold symptoms. She missed nearly a whole week of school and then started perking up. Then I started coughing. Two days later, Tayton caught it, I waited five days before bringing him to ER thinking that he would fight if off. He's a pretty healthy kid compared to Katia. Well, he got bronchitus and thus had to take antibiotics which really throw him for a loop. I give him probiotics to help his digestive system to stabilize and that helps, but he had gotten some pretty bad diarrhea from the medicine. So two days after he was done with his 5 day antibiotic, he spiked a high fever. I brought him back in because he was so lethargic and was looking dehydrated. They tested him for everything and he came back positive for the flu. Course that is a whole other story with our wonderful hospital here. So then he started taking tamiflu and that really helped him feel better, he just has a dry cough occassionally now.
So this morning about 8:20am, I get a call from the bus garage that Katia got sick and threw up on the bus! I ran into town to meet the bus and brought her home. This time of year is always hard on us with sickness, but I have never had it last this long; we're going on a month of constant sickness. I have been dosing the kids up with Vitamin C, I just don't get it. They both have sanitizing gel at school that they use before they eat and I always have them wash their hands when they get home. Our chiro said that girls' immunes take much longer to develop than boys and it's thought it has something to do with the fact that they aren't making estrogen yet. I was always sick as a kid until they took out my tonsils in third grade. Then and still I hardly got sick again. My kids all got the flu shots too, but apparently they are only good for two months so they don't last into the flu season either. I wish I had known that, I would have waited to get theirs. I wonder what huge families do to stop the spread between kids. I think I've tried just about everything! Could be that our house is just so small that it's just plain inevitable. I'm hoping that I keep Tayton well for next week cause he has his appointments in Marshfield Tuesday through Thursday. What a cycle!