It was too good to last. I should have been knocking on wood or not changing my underwear for days or whatever else people do for good luck.
Our house has been like the plague hit it the last few weeks.
First Miss K went down. It was sudden, a Thursday night she complained of a sore throat and feeling warm but cold on the inside.
I should have known something was up that morning when she complained of being achy all over. But I passed both warning signs off as being symptoms of a sniffly nose she'd been fighting off for a while.
Nope. Thursday night/Friday morning the fever raged and the sore throat turned into something where it felt like you were swallowing gravel or glass. Not Miss K's words, but I can just imagine from the groaning at her end.
That turned into a 3 day battle with the fever, some antibiotics for strep throat and a whole lot of time on the couch for the poor little fart.
It went along well as she rebounded and got back to school, but the following Thursday Big C got hit. He had a weird eye infection that probably was a 42nd cousin of whatever virus struck Miss K and then later he got some sort of sinusitis or chest infection to go along with it.
He spent most of a week either in bed, working from home or on the couch too.
Super fun let me tell you. Just get done worrying about one and the other one goes down.
Thankfully myself and the dog just carried on, no sniffles no aches and pains, just went about our day as if there was not a sea of used tissues and a pharmacy sitting on our kitchen counter.
We thought it was going well. Miss K seemed to be increasing again in sniffles and coughing, but nothing extraordinary going on other than a cold. Tis the season so no cause for concern.
But Friday there was a call from the sitter not 30 minutes after I dropped Miss K off.
"She's complaining her ear hurts and her temperature is up a bit, what do you want to do?"
Not 45 minutes earlier her temp was low if anything and no mention of a sore ear. Hmmm, Miss K would not want to miss school…so she wouldn't be faking…and she doesn't usually complain about her ears unless they do really hurt.
OK, she was going to stay at the sitters, she already had one of her own home sick, so what was one more kid on the couch?
Miss K made it through the day pretty well. However, she did start falling asleep on the couch about 6:30 pm. We got her into bed about 7:20 pm and she slept (abet fitfully sometimes) until almost 9 am Saturday.
No fever when she awoke so we figured we were good…nope, she fell back to sleep within 45 minutes and proceeded to have another nap in the afternoon as well.
If she was 10 years older you would have thought she was struck with mono or something.
She slept a lot over the weekend and the ear improved, so I'm hoping we're by this one now too.
I've been keeping the mom shield intact. I do long to kiss my husband on the lips but we fear the spread of the bubonic plague might hit so we'll refrain a bit further.
I hit the wall last week. Too much sleep deprivation and sick people and I was ready to toss in the towel. I just couldn't do it anymore. Your mom ears hear everything at night, wheezing, coughing, snoring etc…
One night I was in the spare bedroom because I couldn't not bear another minute of restricted nasal passage snoring from Big C and I almost started laughing.
I could not decide who was snoring more loudly, Miss K or Big C, it was like a chorus of nasal restriction, and in the dog and they would have been a killer trio.
I passed the point of not knowing whether to laugh, cry or just run away. It wears you down over time.
And I'm no Florence Nightingale, I will not win any awards for my bedside manner or my nurturing ways of bringing people back to health. I will get you what you need, offer some sympathy, but I'm not going to sit by your bedside and dote over you for the course of your illness. Not my style and it won't ever be.
Not to say I don't worry or think about the ill party and in the case of Miss K I will spend more than my fair share of snuggle time or sleep in your bed so you feel comforted. And I do try to be somewhat motherly to Big C, but I'm his wife not his mother and he is an adult, so get over it…LOL
I'm not sure what has kept me from being sick. I did feel for a time that my hands could fall off due to being washed so much, but other than that, the mom powers have persevered and I'm still relatively healthy. Odd for someone who takes immunosuppressants every day, but hey, I'm not going to complain.
I feel we're on our way back to healthier times. Cold and flu season should soon be done with spring on the horizon. March Break should help with Miss K not being exposed to the germ pool of school.
At least it wasn't gastrointestinal stuff ripping through the house (no pun intended), and for that I'm very grateful.
To those battling through colds/flu/and other ailments, I urge you to keep going, the end of snoggy tissues is in sight…hopefully
Til next time…here's to hand sanitizer and lots of naps
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