{"id":678,"date":"2013-11-21T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/21\/weathering-the-storm-and-the-plague"},"modified":"2013-11-21T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:44:00","slug":"weathering-the-storm-and-the-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2013\/11\/21\/weathering-the-storm-and-the-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Weathering the storm and the plague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack is still sick.\u00a0 Sam and I are not.\u00a0 For now.\u00a0 I’m handwashing like an ID nurse.\u00a0 I have separate hoodies to wear while caring for each boy.\u00a0 I have a mysterious dry cough and slight stuffiness, but otherwise feel fine.\u00a0 I’m choosing to blame the weather on my innocuous symptoms.\u00a0 We had a cold snap today with a couple inches of snow.\u00a0 Ben said we can light a fire tonight and I can’t wait.\u00a0 Even with the thermostat in normal range, I’m freezing!<\/p>\n

Last night I was up every 1 1\/2 to 2 hours with the boys:
I went to bed at 9 (early, but not sleepy), asleep at 10
Sam at 12, eat and change
Jack at 2, vomiting
Sam at 3:30, eat and change
Sam at 5:00, eat and change
Sam at 6:30, pacifier given
Sam at 7:15, poop and peed through diaper, eat, change
Jack at 7:15 crying and retching\u00a0 <\/p>\n

And keep in mind that at each waking I’m up for about 20 minutes, and then it takes me another 15-30 minutes to fall back asleep.\u00a0 Also, I could hear Jack’s hacking cough whenever I was awake, making me tense and gauge if he needs me. <\/p>\n

Luckily Ben stayed home to work rather than face the blowing snow across I-25.\u00a0 He came up to soothe Jack while I cleaned and fed Sam.\u00a0 Of course, he peed the outfit again after his 9 am nap.
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Some outfits are cursed.\u00a0 I’ve been trying to get him to wear this four times, and it never makes it past his morning nap.<\/p>\n

This is our agenda today:
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Also, trying to get him to drink and eat a little something.\u00a0 This is day three of his hunger strike and his bones are poking out with alarming detail.\u00a0 I offer him everything he loves, from french fries to Halloween candy.\u00a0 He nibbles and occasionally eats a saltine cracker.\u00a0 He does ok with juice too.\u00a0 We’ve watched about half that pile of movies and I put him down for an early nap.\u00a0 With any luck he will stay down for a few hours more.\u00a0 Anything I can do to kick this cold in the butt I’m willing to try.\u00a0 Get it out of my house!<\/p>\n

Sam woke from his afternoon nap and we had a little chat. <\/p>\n