Apr 22
Sorry for the lack of updates; I’ve had a bad cold that knocked me out of work for a day and a half, and came back to the office in the midst of work and family emergencies. I’ll try to get back to a proper update schedule starting next Monday, after I’m caught up and (hopefully) sane again.
Until then, have a good week and weekend!
Mar 24
There’s one person in this house who isn’t sick, and he’s writing this right now. I had been sick with a bad cold last week, but got over it fairly quickly. As soon as I recovered, though, Robin started getting sick. And in her case, she stayed sick. She was pretty much out of combat all weekend while we visited my parents. She felt a bit better Sunday, but worsened again on Monday. And by Tuesday, she still wasn’t feeling better and all three kids started showing symptoms of the same thing. Thomas had a mild fever Sunday and Katherine’s started Monday. We had hoped that Jonathan would be spared, but he’s stuffy and feverish too.
Not good. We’re at Wednesday now, and although the kids are somewhat better — Thomas is not running a fever today, so he should be able to return to school tomorrow, and Katherine isn’t sprawled out listless on the stairs – Robin is still pretty wiped out, particularly since the baby did not sleep well last night and had to have his nose suctioned at least three times.
I have a lot of things piling up at work, and it continues to accumulate while I’m home. But I’ve learned from experience that it’s pretty important to ensure that Robin is firmly on the mend when she gets sick with a new baby in the house. When both of the older kids were around six months Robin had illnesses that knocked her out for multiple weeks, and trying to push her into activity before she was fully recovered just lengthened the infirmity.
She finally does seem to be on the mend, however. Her temperature was stable, she’s sleeping better (when the kids let her sleep) and although she’s still pretty wiped out, she’s not comatose most of the day. I have high hopes that I’ll be able to get back to work tomorrow and things will be on the upswing.
Except that today my throat is sore, and my nose is running just a bit, and I’m wondering if maybe I didn’t give this to the rest of my family; perhaps they are in the process of giving it to me…
As long as it’s not this, I’ll be happy.
Mar 15
We had a pretty good start to the weekend; we met up with one of Katherine’s former teachers for lunch on Saturday and then took advantage of our Lifetime Fitness membership to swim with the kids. I was feeling great before we got into the pool, but by the time I got out my nose was running and I was feeling like I had a cold.
When I woke on Sunday, I was miserable. I got the kids downstairs watching TV so Robin could sleep a bit more (Jonathan had had a few bad nights, so she needed it) and crashed on the guest bed downstairs.
Unfortunately, while I was in bed and Thomas was distracted by the TV, Katherine decided that the fishtank needed to be redecorated. Surprisingly, she didn’t get water everywhere, but many of the decorative items that we had removed she plopped back in the tank.
Later in the afternoon, Robin took the kids back to Lifetime and I crashed for a couple hours. I got to bed early and slept late, and am feeling much better today (although quite a bit worse than baseline). With any luck, I’ll be the only one with this cold — I’m not looking forward to Jonathan having it…
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