Pink eye, flu and double ear infection

I'm not sure why we're surprised every year in January, when both boys typically start to get sick and we end up meeting our family medical deductible by the end of the month.  It's January 10th, and since Sunday we've been to urgent care 3 times!  Kale was back at urgent care on Tuesday evening for flu like symptoms.  He really took a nose dive and became lathargic, every time we touched him he said owie, and he was coughing like crazy.  We gave him some Tylenol prior to going to urgent care, and by the time we got to see a dr. an hour+ later the medicine had kicked in and he was doing better.  However, the dr. said that based on his fever last weekend and his symptoms he likely has the flu and will have symptoms for the next 7-10 days.  Unfortunately there's not a lot we can do for him.  The good news is that he seemed to be making a comeback tonight.

Nolan, on the other hand, started devloping a cough/cold yesterday, in addition to the pink eye he got from Kale on Monday.  After daycare today he started complaining that his left ear hurt, and was visibly in a lot of pain.  Adam took him to urgent care and left with a double ear infection diagnosis and prescriptions for an anti biotic and ear drops for his pain.  Poor Nolan was beside himself when they finally got home around 8:20, because he had to get his pink eye drops, Tylenol, the anti-biotic and the ear drops.  He kept saying "I just want to go to sleep!"  The good news is that once we got past all the medicines he fell right to sleep.  We can only hope that they both sleep all night long! 

Here's hoping that we're taking our turn on the sick wagon and that it won't be back to visit us anytime soon - and that Adam and I don't get any of it!