10. When you receive an email from your child’s school informing you of a case of influenza in his class, blow it off and assume that due to your stellar parenting your child will not be affected.
9. When your child wakes up in the middle of the night and feels warm, assume that it is because he was wrapped up too tight in his fuzzy Lightening McQueen blanket.
8. When your child wakes up a second time in the middle of the night, this time blazing hot, give him Tylenol and let him sleep with you.
7. After a full 24 hours of running a high temp, your husband will want to take the child to the ER. Calmly talk him out of this as you know that it’s not all that atypical for kids to run temps for this long.
6. An hour after talking your husband out of taking the child to the ER, check his temp and smile as he’s finally fever free for the first time. Feel smug.
5. When your second child spikes a temp, sigh and realize that you’re in it for the long haul now. At least child number one is still fever free.
4. When child one spikes a temp again, chalk it up to too much activity and put him down for a long nap.
3. Attend a belated Christmas party and take child number one with you, who’s been begging to go to the party for several days. Leave a very sick child 2 home with daddy. At the party, find out that the influenza case at school involved a high fever for several days and wheezing. Notice that child one is now wheezing.
2. Take child one home and take his temp, which is now resting at around 103. Finally give in and let your husband take him to the ER (wishing all the while that you would have decided to do this earlier so they could go to the Urgent Care center which is a much lower copay). This is, after all, the best way to ensure that he will get well as his fever will break almost as soon as he walks into the waiting room. After a couple of good pats on the back, said child should give a good cough, which will stop the wheezing. So now you are out $75.00 and your kid is fine. Works like a charm.
1. Wake up the next morning and realize that when you told your sick child you wished you could take the sickness from him, you didn’t actually mean you wanted the sickness. Sigh, drag yourself out of bed and makes friends with NyQuil because you’ve got a long couple of days ahead of you.
Sorry to hear that you have it now too. Like I said in a previous blog entry of mine, mom’s should not be able to get sick.
Hope you are all feeling better for Tia’s birthday party on Saturday! At least nobody is throwing up, that is the worst!!
Can’t bear the thought of you being ill! Get well soon!
YIKES!!! I assume Brooke will be getting sick soon too, since it is going around their school… man, I hate this time of year! I hope you are all feeling better soon!! I’m thinkin it will snow enough to cancel school tomorrow anyway, huh? Feel better:) When was Tia supposed to come for her screening?? tomorrow??
I’ll pray that you ALL get well quickly and those of you that haven’t caught it can somehow stay well. 🙁
Oh no! Here’s hoping you’re better soon!