Sick day(s)
This past Thursday I got home from work at around 3:30 to find a delightfully healthy boy toddling around the front yard with his lovely babysitter/our lovely friend. JR was all smiles and laughs, bright eyed and on the move.
About 90 minutes later his nose was a river of snot (green, the best kind) and his eyes were rimmed with that reddish-pinkish tone that calls out “FEVER.”
Sure enough, a quick poke of the thermometer indicated that his temperature was slightly above 100. We pumped him full of Motrin and put him to bed early.
(I make it seem as I was so calm during this episode, when in fact my inner monologue kept chanting, “It came on so quick! Doesn’t the flu/H1N1 (and, yes, my inner monologue often incorporates slashes) come on really quick? He’s only had the first dose of the flu shot! OH WOE!)
The poor little man was up off and on until about 1am, requiring the suckage of snot out of his head, which lead to much screaming and thrashing. Oh, parenthood.
He woke up Friday morning completely fever-free but with his face covered in crusted snot and his nose still dripping constantly. The day was full of whining, sneezing, shrieking at the site of the nasal aspirator, refusing to eat anything but bananas, and (blessedly) taking wicked-long naps.
By Sunday morning he was at about 80 percent. Come Sunday evening, he was basically his old self. But me? OH HO HO HO me, you ask? Well, it seems that as soon as the cold/flu-ish thing had run its course through his system, it jumped straight into mine. Add that sickness to the unthinkable injustice that I, personally, cannot sleep 16 hours a day, and you’ve got a very sick, very grumpy, very-stuffed-up-and-unable-to-correctly-pronounce-Ns young lady.
And it’s all his fault. How the hell am I supposed to resist kissing on a face like this, especially when he feels like poo and actually wants to cuddle for the first time in his life?
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Nope, no way you can resist kissing that poor little face when he’s feeling so miserable. The horrible sickness you’re having to deal with is just another confirmation that you are a loving, selfless mother who would put herself in harms way time and again for her beautiful little boy. But, I’m sure it’s no fun being sick and not being able to rest, hope you feel better soon!
Sorry to hear you guys haven’t been well…Wade’s pretty much had the same thing (for the third time in the past two months…and I thought breastfeeding was supposed to guard him from such things???) minus the wicked-long naps.
I feel your pain, Val. Ava was a happy little lady last Monday and suddenly felt warm. I took her temp and found it to be 102, at which point we rushed to the pediatrician to find she had H1N1 (after receiving the vaccine 2 days prior). Needless to say, the week was hell! But all is well now and miss Ava is back to normal.
I hope you all feel better soon!