OT: The Avalounge: No Homers Club

[Papa Francouz]

Anyone see the EJ & G video on the Avs' IG today? 'Cause that is the cutest, purest, and most wholesome video on the Internet right now.

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

Does this work?

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Looks like 'Lil G is checking EJ for ticks or something.

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

G was looking for some darker hairs on EJ's head, so he could pluck them out and glue them to his top lip.

 

[henchman21]

 

[Bubba Thudd]

How many circles do you see?

 

[Lonewolfe2015]

Next weekend is my one year with my girlfriend, crazy has fast time has flown by. Already talking about living together eventually. Almost miss those days when I was coming on here and we were all laughing at my dating escapades.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

How many circles do you see?

16

 

[Bubba Thudd]

16

me too

 

[RockLobster]

So on Friday afternoon I get a call from my wife--our almost 7 year old is sick and needs picked up from school. I was already getting off of work early that day, so I left earlier and got her, took her to the Dr, and she has strep throat. "Not to worry," said the Dr, "it looks like we caught it early! It's barely registering on the test, but it is definitely positive."

So I fill her prescription and am told "After the first dosage, in a few hours she'll be feeling pretty good. In most kids' case, they feel 80% better after the first dosage, but the other 20% needs the full treatment".

We make a plan to more-or-less quarantine her from our 2 year old. On Saturday, my wife & I are doing some room re-arranging in the basement, eventually the 2-year old needs to come downstairs. We figure it was fine, the 7 year old's fever had not only broke (on Friday night), but had stayed down all morning and into the afternoon. We figure if she's not coughing on each other, or hugging and all that, that it will be fine.

4:30PM on Saturday, our 2-year old's head feels warmer than usual, and she's complaining saying "Oww...mouth hurt". So our only option is to take her to something called "The Little Clinic" inside our local Dillons Marketplace. The Nurse on duty is informed that her sister has strep, and because she's 2, they did not want to do the strep test. They looked at her throat and ears, and determined that those, coupled with the fever she definitely did have, that she also had strep.

We get her medicine filled, we give it to her, and we are hoping that we are done with this strep outbreak. We wake up on Sunday, we're wrapping up the room re-arranging (getting the 7 year old moved into her bigger room in the basement). We finally finish putting up our Christmas decor as well as putting ornaments on our Christmas trees (yes, that's plural, and yes we do it this early).

We depart for an evening of Christmas Light watching at a city-organized event, on the way there and home we notice our 2 year old's voice sounds weird, and she now has a cough...kind of like a seal barking. We initially thought that she was just in need of something to drink.

We all get home and get them in bed, and then the wife & I lay down to finish a movie we had started. We finish that movie and now I'm getting ready for bed when she hears the 2 year old coughing and it's even worse. She gets up and goes to check on her. She takes her temperature and it reads 104.2 degrees and now we're f***ing freaking out. Her temp had been 99 earlier in the day, but we didn't think much of it because we took it just after getting her up and out of her bed (and thus under covers), and considering it was 101.9 the day before, we thought "Oh, well the medicine is working in breaking her fever".

So we rushed her to the ER, and I'm freaking out because I'm thinking "Did she *NOT* have strep throat and we assumed it based on what the Little Clinic said???" and it doesn't help that the 2 year old is feeling so bad, and just wants to be held by her mom, that when my wife was trying to get things together, the 2 year old was so distraught that she wasn't being held that she now had trouble breathing.

The ER Doctor tells us that she has something I've never heard of, but apparently is common in babies/toddlers (specifically those who are 2 like our daughter): Croup. Apparently it is very treatable, they gave her a steroid that night to open up her breathing tubes (so that we wouldn't freak out anymore), but said she would still have that cough.

I've never been so f***ing scared in my life.

 

[Foppberg]

So on Friday afternoon I get a call from my wife--our almost 7 year old is sick and needs picked up from school. I was already getting off of work early that day, so I left earlier and got her, took her to the Dr, and she has strep throat. "Not to worry," said the Dr, "it looks like we caught it early! It's barely registering on the test, but it is definitely positive."

So I fill her prescription and am told "After the first dosage, in a few hours she'll be feeling pretty good. In most kids' case, they feel 80% better after the first dosage, but the other 20% needs the full treatment".

We make a plan to more-or-less quarantine her from our 2 year old. On Saturday, my wife & I are doing some room re-arranging in the basement, eventually the 2-year old needs to come downstairs. We figure it was fine, the 7 year old's fever had not only broke (on Friday night), but had stayed down all morning and into the afternoon. We figure if she's not coughing on each other, or hugging and all that, that it will be fine.

4:30PM on Saturday, our 2-year old's head feels warmer than usual, and she's complaining saying "Oww...mouth hurt". So our only option is to take her to something called "The Little Clinic" inside our local Dillons Marketplace. The Nurse on duty is informed that her sister has strep, and because she's 2, they did not want to do the strep test. They looked at her throat and ears, and determined that those, coupled with the fever she definitely did have, that she also had strep.

We get her medicine filled, we give it to her, and we are hoping that we are done with this strep outbreak. We wake up on Sunday, we're wrapping up the room re-arranging (getting the 7 year old moved into her bigger room in the basement). We finally finish putting up our Christmas decor as well as putting ornaments on our Christmas trees (yes, that's plural, and yes we do it this early).

We depart for an evening of Christmas Light watching at a city-organized event, on the way there and home we notice our 2 year old's voice sounds weird, and she now has a cough...kind of like a seal barking. We initially thought that she was just in need of something to drink.

We all get home and get them in bed, and then the wife & I lay down to finish a movie we had started. We finish that movie and now I'm getting ready for bed when she hears the 2 year old coughing and it's even worse. She gets up and goes to check on her. She takes her temperature and it reads 104.2 degrees and now we're ****ing freaking out. Her temp had been 99 earlier in the day, but we didn't think much of it because we took it just after getting her up and out of her bed (and thus under covers), and considering it was 101.9 the day before, we thought "Oh, well the medicine is working in breaking her fever".

So we rushed her to the ER, and I'm freaking out because I'm thinking "Did she *NOT* have strep throat and we assumed it based on what the Little Clinic said???" and it doesn't help that the 2 year old is feeling so bad, and just wants to be held by her mom, that when my wife was trying to get things together, the 2 year old was so distraught that she wasn't being held that she now had trouble breathing.

The ER Doctor tells us that she has something I've never heard of, but apparently is common in babies/toddlers (specifically those who are 2 like our daughter): Croup. Apparently it is very treatable, they gave her a steroid that night to open up her breathing tubes (so that we wouldn't freak out anymore), but said she would still have that cough.

I've never been so ****ing scared in my life.

Shit, I mean strep throat, a cough.. Those things are minor concerns (at least in my single childless opinion) but 104? Freaking yikes.

 

[RockLobster]

****, I mean strep throat, a cough.. Those things are minor concerns (at least in my single childless opinion) but 104? Freaking yikes.

I know. We could hear her coughing, I had just started to fall asleep when it sounded really bad. I motioned to get out of bed and my wife told me she'll get her, since I had to get up earlier this morning for work.

The next thing I remember is her bursting into the room with our daughter saying "This thermometer says her temperature is 104 degrees!"

It was a rough f***ing night.

 

[Bubba Thudd]

It gets harder, bro.


Maybe not what you wanted to hear, but that's the voice of experience...

 

[Papa Francouz]

@Pierce Hawthorne I am so confused by your change in avatar, just sayin'.

 

[Foppberg]

Change it back @Pierce Hawthorne

 

[UncleRisto]

You should change it to a picture of Alexis Pepin, I think.

 

[Papa Francouz]

You should change it to a picture of Alexis Pepin, I think.

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

Movie night:

“I don’t want them to gain another yard! You blitz all night!”

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

@Pierce Hawthorne I am so confused by your change in avatar, just sayin'.

Change it back @Pierce Hawthorne

Ya it's not a very good look is it... But a deal is a deal and so here we are:


I offered up my avatar for the season for whoever won the Avs mock draft challenge I created this past summer and @Asinine won and chose this for me and well this is my life now.

 

[RockLobster]

Movie night:

“I don’t want them to gain another yard! You blitz all night!”

One of the first movies I watched on Disney+ since it was in 4K! It looked gorgeous (and the movie still holds up).

 

[The Abusement Park]

Has anyone here seen the Russian Five?

 

[Northern Avs Fan]

One of the first movies I watched on Disney+ since it was in 4K! It looked gorgeous (and the movie still holds up).

Is that Disney + good?

 

[Asinine]

Ya it's not a very good look is it... But a deal is a deal and so here we are:


I offered up my avatar for the season for whoever won the Avs mock draft challenge I created this past summer and @Asinine won and chose this for me and well this is my life now.

Everytime I come across one of your posts on the board I can't stop laughing or take whatever you posted seriously

Goddamn i'm cruel.

 

[Asinine]

@Pierce Hawthorne
I'll tell ya what. You can take it off at the end of the year or whenever Nichushkin scores a goal. Whatever comes first.

 

[Tweaky]

My Netflix is probably getting lonely.

Disney+ is great. The VPN I have to pay for to use it, not so much. Keep having to reinstall the software/adapter. And I can't just set it up on my router because those settings are locked out on the custom firmware my ISP has installed on it. So no casting it to my TV, or watching on the PS4. Can't wait until it is actually released in Asia.
But I can haul the laptop over and plug it in via HDMI when we want to watch something as a family. So far I have rewatched most of the Star Wars and Marvel franchises. Wife and kid have watched a few Disney/Pixar films while I slept.