A: When it rains it pours
This week has sucked. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. No more cruising blissfully, rather, remotely aware of the potential for turmoil, disaster, frustration, and a mild case of heart-ache. Flooded basements, fragile relationships, sick baby.
B. Bad Mommy
My little monkey has been "off" for several days. Not his chipper, banana eating self, but not too ornery either. My mother warned me on Sunday that she didn't think he felt well. I ignored her. He's had a touch of a fever off and on all week, I've ignored that. Too busy being grumpy, picking fights, vacuuming water and "flinging poo" to realize that the boy needed some intervention. He had a terrible night as did his parents. He had a slow motion morning. He woke up from a nap with such a high fever that he was completely fire truck red. As all bad mommy's do, I panicked, called my mommy, threw the kid in a tepid bath tub, forced multiple nearly frozen drinks down his throat and got him in to the first available doctors appointment.
He's sick.
C. Quarantine
My sweet monkey has an ear infection. Crap. He also has a mouth full of sores ala Hand, Foot and Mouth. Double Crap. We're in isolation for the next 7-10 days...no other small kiddies around us - probably got it from the grocery store cart on Tuesday night.
We have children's Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl in rotation an on standby. We have ear drops and antibiotics at the helm. We also have one pathetic, sad, forlorn, tired, and a tad bit guilty mommy.
This week has sucked. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. No more cruising blissfully, rather, remotely aware of the potential for turmoil, disaster, frustration, and a mild case of heart-ache. Flooded basements, fragile relationships, sick baby.
B. Bad Mommy
My little monkey has been "off" for several days. Not his chipper, banana eating self, but not too ornery either. My mother warned me on Sunday that she didn't think he felt well. I ignored her. He's had a touch of a fever off and on all week, I've ignored that. Too busy being grumpy, picking fights, vacuuming water and "flinging poo" to realize that the boy needed some intervention. He had a terrible night as did his parents. He had a slow motion morning. He woke up from a nap with such a high fever that he was completely fire truck red. As all bad mommy's do, I panicked, called my mommy, threw the kid in a tepid bath tub, forced multiple nearly frozen drinks down his throat and got him in to the first available doctors appointment.
He's sick.
C. Quarantine
My sweet monkey has an ear infection. Crap. He also has a mouth full of sores ala Hand, Foot and Mouth. Double Crap. We're in isolation for the next 7-10 days...no other small kiddies around us - probably got it from the grocery store cart on Tuesday night.
We have children's Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl in rotation an on standby. We have ear drops and antibiotics at the helm. We also have one pathetic, sad, forlorn, tired, and a tad bit guilty mommy.
6 comments:
wow that stinks! poor little guy....double whammy eh? that hand foot & mouth stinks. but at least mommy & daddy can't get it......and at least he has no siblings...we went through that when dani was 4, britton was 3 and ethan was 1 years old. talk about passing stuff around.....it was super quarantine....ug. i feel for you.
and an ear infection? poor thing.
poor you. that's a lot to deal with. i agree this week has sucked ROYALLY. i'm ready to be an alcoholic i think.....nachos just aren't working anymore......
*sigh*
Annie -
I'm so sorry. I know this is easier said than done but please try not to be too hard on yourself. Just from what you've posted you've had a real sh*t@y week!
I hope Elliott (and the rest of you) feel better soon.
Hugs, Codi
You'll be fine. Sometimes you need the bad stuff to refocus on the good. Tell Elliott to stop eating his feet! - Haley
I hate it when babies are sick! It makes everyone feel crappy. Hope you all feel well soon and if you need anything please call!
That was the exact same thing that happened when we had it. One night when he didn't sleep well someone even said, "I hope he is not sick." . If you need anything let me know. We survived on strawberry creamies and I had to have nights off. I lost it four days into the quarantine and just wandered around ikea all by myself. That really saved some sanity. He could have gotten it from Disneyland or the plane as well. It takes a week to incubate. So sorry Annie.
Sorry about Elliot being sick. Alex had the "mouth" disease about a month ago, but it actually was herpes-coldsores. It was absolutely horrible. We didn't leave the house for a week. I hope that Elliot is okay and that you keep your sanity!
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