My poor SICK house

I decided I must document the yucky winter that we have had this year at our house. We have had sick kids pretty much constantly for the last 6 weeks straight. Here is Robby's long list of illnesses: ear infection, croup, stomach flu, upper respiratory infection, bilateral ear infections (both ears), chronic cough and NOW "erythema multiforme". Maddie has had: pneumonia, upper respiratory infection, ear infection, chronic cough and NOW influenza A and bilateral ear infections. I swear I try to keep our house as clean as I can and I try to keep my kids from eating food off the floor, and playing in toilets, and eating dirt outside, and well I guess you get the idea :) It makes me so sad (and tired) to see them sick constantly. It was almost a joke today, because I took Robby to the doctor in the morning for the latest medical condition where he has these horrible red welt looking patches ALL over his body. It turns out to be "erythema multiforme", which is caused by a virus that produces this awful allergic looking reaction to the skin. Unfortunately there is not a lot you can do about it, other than lots of Benadryl. Then later on, Madison woke up from her nap with a high fever and cough. So it was back to the doctor's office in the evening with her. One of the ladies that works at their doctor's office even recognized me and laughed about me being there earlier that day with my other child. It turns out that Maddie has Influenza A (respiratory flu) and ear infections in both ears. Sooooo, once again we are all back on antibiotics hoping for better luck this round. I might just go crazy if we don't get better soon! I guess the one light at the end of the tunnel is that I haven't gotten sick through ALL of these yucky bugs (knock on wood). I hope everyone else has healthier households than us and I especially hope that it warms up even more around here so that the sicky germs will begin to go away.