Please.... we are now heading into week four of constant sickness at our house and frankly... we are SICK of it... no pun intended! My goodness this has made us really appreciate our health and the times when everyone feels well. Reese's fever finally ended on Friday followed by an amazing lacy rash that cover her body. With three trips to the doctor for her last week, chest x-rays, and blood test (not pleasant on a 1 year old), the doctors still feel that she just has a virus. By Friday morning as she was returning to normal, Brock woke up with a stomach ache and diarrhea and by noon Tanner had called from the middle school with an awful sore throat and stomach ache too. Hello! This was beginning to become comical in a way.
With the doctors warning me that Reese was probably susceptible to getting sick again with her immune system down, I decided I would stay home from church with her, Brock and Tanner but get rides for Tate and Brennan. Then this morning, much to my dismay, Tate woke up with a nasty cough and running to the bathroom and Brennan had an awful cold. I feel like we are being pummeled with dodge balls and we have no defense!
Oh and did I mention that on Friday, just before I took Reese back to the doctor she pulled a can of green beans out of the cupboard and it landed on her big toe causing the nail to lift and gush blood everywhere. Ouch!!! She screamed for a loooong time... and then seemed to calm down until she would look at the bandage on her toe and it would start all over again. She really is starting to be quite the Drama Queen. She has inherited my lovely pouty bottom lip and man can she use it. I remember when I was a kid my Mom would tell me that a bird was going to come and poop on my lip if I didn't stop pouting. It's hilarious to see her now use her little lip as bargaining power. Especially when Daddy is around. After the toe incident, needless to say, Mark felt really bad since I have been asking him for weeks to get the baby proofing locks on in the kitchen. We'll be starting that project first thing Monday morning for sure.
If there is any consolation to all this madness... I'm not spending at money shopping and we certainly are saving gas money by not driving anywhere. One that note... most of the gas stations in Charlotte are currently out of gas thanks to the horrible hurricane Ike that hit Texas. However the price gouging started the day before the hurricane hit. When I drove Reese to the doctor on Friday I passed a station that had gas at $3.61 for regular... an hour later on the way home it was up to $3.89. To make matters worse, when Mark went over to get gas 3 hours later, it was at $4.29... and GONE! He drove to another station closer to home only to find their prices the same and LONG lines and very grouchy people. ( We'll save that story for another day.. but let it be known that Mark was waiting in line for ever despite the rude comments and horrible tantrum a lady through at him when she though he was cutting in line.) There is great prudence in being prepared for storms long before they occur... people get NASTY when they are desperate! And that was only gas... I can only imagine how people would act when it was a fight over food. Stock up that Food Storage.. angry people are waiting!
Well we can only hope for this virus to pass quickly and get things back to normal around here. We had to cancel Brennan's birthday party that was supposed to be on Friday night and now it's rescheduled for this next Friday. Hopefully this week will work much better! Ahhhhh...
With the doctors warning me that Reese was probably susceptible to getting sick again with her immune system down, I decided I would stay home from church with her, Brock and Tanner but get rides for Tate and Brennan. Then this morning, much to my dismay, Tate woke up with a nasty cough and running to the bathroom and Brennan had an awful cold. I feel like we are being pummeled with dodge balls and we have no defense!
Oh and did I mention that on Friday, just before I took Reese back to the doctor she pulled a can of green beans out of the cupboard and it landed on her big toe causing the nail to lift and gush blood everywhere. Ouch!!! She screamed for a loooong time... and then seemed to calm down until she would look at the bandage on her toe and it would start all over again. She really is starting to be quite the Drama Queen. She has inherited my lovely pouty bottom lip and man can she use it. I remember when I was a kid my Mom would tell me that a bird was going to come and poop on my lip if I didn't stop pouting. It's hilarious to see her now use her little lip as bargaining power. Especially when Daddy is around. After the toe incident, needless to say, Mark felt really bad since I have been asking him for weeks to get the baby proofing locks on in the kitchen. We'll be starting that project first thing Monday morning for sure.
If there is any consolation to all this madness... I'm not spending at money shopping and we certainly are saving gas money by not driving anywhere. One that note... most of the gas stations in Charlotte are currently out of gas thanks to the horrible hurricane Ike that hit Texas. However the price gouging started the day before the hurricane hit. When I drove Reese to the doctor on Friday I passed a station that had gas at $3.61 for regular... an hour later on the way home it was up to $3.89. To make matters worse, when Mark went over to get gas 3 hours later, it was at $4.29... and GONE! He drove to another station closer to home only to find their prices the same and LONG lines and very grouchy people. ( We'll save that story for another day.. but let it be known that Mark was waiting in line for ever despite the rude comments and horrible tantrum a lady through at him when she though he was cutting in line.) There is great prudence in being prepared for storms long before they occur... people get NASTY when they are desperate! And that was only gas... I can only imagine how people would act when it was a fight over food. Stock up that Food Storage.. angry people are waiting!
Well we can only hope for this virus to pass quickly and get things back to normal around here. We had to cancel Brennan's birthday party that was supposed to be on Friday night and now it's rescheduled for this next Friday. Hopefully this week will work much better! Ahhhhh...
1 comment:
we missed you this weekend...hope your week gets better.
marci
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