I used to think I had a pretty good immune system. Then my husband became a school teacher. HA! So much for any immunity! I swear he has brought home almost every possible sick germ. We have had sickies in our home for almost a month now.
First, everyone got a cold. That I could handle. THEN Scotty spent the next week teething horribly until 3 new pearly whites popped through. Whew! I thought, It's over! Fat chance.
We all started getting sick again (flu?) and Scotty got a double ear infection and double eye infection. Thankfully, once he started his meds, all of that cleared up pretty quickly. Except then his buns hurt because the amoxicillin made him have loose stools and it irritated his buns really really bad. For now, diaper changes consist of filling up bowl with warm water and vinegar, using paper towels and cleaning him up, blow drying his buns, lathering him with Bag Balm, and then if you can catch him, putting on a new diaper before he leaves some surprise all over you or the floor. Yay! 15 minutes per diaper change.
The night before Scotty's 1st birthday party, I woke up around midnight feeling queezy and spend most of the rest of the night in the bathroom ridding myself of every possible anything that might be in my body. 7 hours later I was finally through with that part but I was so weak I could not even stand up. My whole body was shaking and I couldn't get any food or liquids into me. By this point, Jeff was pretty sure he had Strep Throat. Joy and rapture. We had to reschedule Scotty's party for another day hoping that our food would still be good by then.
It was so frustrating. It was such a perfect day for a party! Absolutely beautiful and Scotty was so happy! Ugh. The cruel irony. Saturday night Jeff's eye started gooping over and by Sunday morning he had pink eye. By Sunday I could eat a little and stand up. Over all I was feeling much better that day.
Monday Jeff was feeling better, still had pink eye so he called in sick and got a sub for the day. That night was Scotty's party (I'll write about it in a separate, much happier post) and I had a sinus/flu/migraine monster of a headache. None of us got much sleep last night because we were all hacking (some worse than others...poor Jeffrey) and when morning finally came, I woke up with a goopy, pink eye. Shoot me now. (really please don't.)
When will we get better??!?!!
3 comments:
Oh. My. Goodness! I can't believe how much sickness you guys have had! I am so sad for you! I hope you guys feel better soon!
Um...lots of vitamin C and fluids... ;)
The first couple of years teaching are going to be like this as Jeff gets used to all the germs. He needs to have a big can of lysol/clorx wipes in his room and be vigilant about using them -- every day, wipe down the room. Also he needs to wash his hands as much as possible. February is always the time when school kids start dropping like flies from colds, flu what ever it is. And sadly, parents will send their sick kids to school no matter what...jerks! You also should drink an Airborne or EmergenC every day...Vitamin C boosts the immuse system. Good luck and I am sorry....I've been there before. My first year teaching I think I was sick more than I was well.
Not fun at all! I agree with the above comment - Airborne and vitamin C. We take vitamin C every day (Costco chewables) and it seems to help. We'll take Airborne if we feel something coming on. I hope you get it all through your system! Luckily you guys are probably close to summer there so a lot of the sickness will go away. Good luck!
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