steroids wake up the dead

I have hardly ever gone to the doctor when I was actually sick. Usually I just suffer through whatever symptoms I may have for as long as it takes for them to go away . . . and that can be a very long time. But having a child and watching him suffer through his first bouts of sickness, however minor they may be in annoyance, I have certainly dragged him to the pediatrician countless times in his first year. We have been to the emergency room 3 times!!! And of course nothing was really and truly wrong each time we went, mostly precautionary visits because we were really afraid and erred on the side of caution because neither of us is knowledgeable about anything medical. First time was his second day home, he seemed to be drying up like a prune in our house and his cries just sounded really hoarse to us! The ER doctor practically laughed in our faces, and said with a guffaw "How could you possibly know what his normal cry sounds like if you just got him?" Looking back it makes perfect sense, but we really thought he might be sick.
Neither of us are hypochondriacs either. We have just had so many things go wrong in the past two years (if you don't want to judge it you can use the word "challenges"), we tend to err on the side of caution. Then he fel off the bed and cracked his head, promptly passing out and I was freaked so off we went. Again, he was resilient. The last time we went was so awful because they kept trying to stick the thermometer up his butt and he was forcing it out with his precious little butt muscles, the whole while being held down barely by myself and his father -- his will is very strong! I couldn't help thinking this was going to come out later on in therapy as a repressed memory. I sure hope not. At least we didn't have the poor boy circumcised, that I could not forgive myself.
So Luka and I are both sick, and I am on prednisone, and he is also on some baby steroids. I have to admit I was extremely weary of them, but I am really feeling better This whole medicine thing is kind of cool. You actually get relief when you are feeling crappy! You don't just have to suffer! I felt the same way when they finally took Luka by cesarean -- like, wow, I didn't know I would ever again feel better after 2 days and nights of sheer agony! The only draw back to the steroids is possible weight gain and I will be quite upset if that happens because I have been so good about losing again over the past 2 months. Haven't been to jazzercise in 5 days -- hope I can make it tomorrow. Anyhoo, I am getting pumped up.