{"id":680,"date":"2013-11-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/19\/begone-sick"},"modified":"2013-11-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:00:00","slug":"begone-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/begone-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Begone, sick!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a week it has been.\u00a0 Last Wednesday Ben woke up quite sick.\u00a0 Sore throat, sudden vomiting, general yucks.\u00a0 I banished him to the basement and after a couple days he started to feel better.\u00a0 That same week Jack had disgusting diarrhea, but no other symptoms.\u00a0 Add in a couple wet beds, daily blow-outs from Sam, and I felt like I was living in a cesspool.<\/p>\n

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Thursday Sam got shots and did not recover as well as Jack used to.\u00a0 For the rest of the day he was shrieking whenever awake, refusing to eat too.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 He was sleepy immediately after the appointment, allowing me to take the boys to a play group organized by a girl at church.\u00a0 It was so fun to be around others with young kids.<\/p>\n

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\"Untitled\"<\/a> By the way, Sam was 14 pounds 12 ounces, which is 91st percentile.\u00a0 He was 25 inches long, which was literally off the chart, beyond 100%.\u00a0 The girl on the right was born the day after Sam and had her appointment that morning too.\u00a0 She was 8 pounds 6 ounces, and weighing less than 30th percentile.\u00a0 Funny to have them next to each other.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

<\/a> By Friday things were looking up. We gladly accepted our friends’ offer to babysit – Sam’s first time being left with non-family members.\u00a0 Ben and I had a thoroughly enjoyable couple hours watching the new Thor movie.\u00a0 Saturday night we had the Arcands over for dinner.\u00a0 Thai take-out for grown-ups, mac and cheese for the kids.\u00a0 As I think I mentioned, Nora and Jack are just a month apart in age, and Henry and Sam were born the same weekend.\u00a0 So fun!\u00a0 Nora and Jack are fantastic playmates.<\/p>\n

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Sunday felt kind of normal.\u00a0 Ben was mostly healthy.\u00a0 We went to church.\u00a0 I made cookies.\u00a0 It looked like we managed to quarantine the illness.<\/p>\n

(I like Miranda’s term for photos taken during church: Irreverantgrams)
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<\/a> But overnight I heard Jack coughing while I was nursing Sam next door at 3 AM.\u00a0 Monday morning Jack said he felt fine, even though he overslept by an hour (and thoroughly wet the bed again).\u00a0 He was rubbing his eyes during story time, but still played.\u00a0 He was stoked about the excavator that the guest reader, the county commissioner, brought for the kids to explore.\u00a0 He coughed once more on the drive home, but said he was fine.<\/p>\n

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After story time we high tailed it to the pediatric dentist, where Sam had an appointment for a frenectomy.\u00a0 He did great.\u00a0 The dentists agreed he was mildly tongue tied (same as his pediatrician, who referred us) and poo poohed the risks raised by my mom.\u00a0 She and my dad had teamed up to dissuade me from “mutilating our grandson.”\u00a0 Sorry folks, but I went through with it.\u00a0 Sam got righteously angry after the clipping, as expected.\u00a0 He hardly bled, “tis but a flesh wound” said the dentist.\u00a0 I nursed him right away and by the time we left the office he was smiling.\u00a0 Feedings since then have gotten easier and easier, as he lets go of those bad habits.\u00a0 The pain I had is gone, and he’s less gassy.\u00a0 This morning he was downright jolly.<\/p>\n

Back to Jack.\u00a0 I had plans to bring the family to dinner with Amanda.\u00a0 Ben got home exhausted, and offered to stay home with Jack so I could have an easier meal out with Amanda.\u00a0 Sam came, and I enjoyed a delicious, healthy sandwich and soup at ModMarket, followed by a holiday milkshake from Chick-fil-A.\u00a0 During our meal, I received a series of text from Ben:
“Something ain’t right with Jack”
“He seems sick”
“Just so tired”
And he’s suddenly gotten very quiet and whispery”
“Full on barfing”<\/p>\n

Splendid.<\/p>\n

I was so glad Ben kept him home instead of having that scene in a restaurant.\u00a0 Poor guy was shivering with a fever when I got home.\u00a0 I just wanted to cuddle him, but I desperately want to keep Sam and me healthy so I kept my distance.\u00a0 Jack went to bed early last night and slept well.\u00a0 Today he is super emotional – cried three times before 9 AM.\u00a0 But the toast and juice were happily eaten and his fever is gone.\u00a0 We have plans to watch Despicable Me and Cinderella, a long nap, and if all goes well, a trip to the grocery store.<\/p>\n

Knowing my luck I’ll get this cold\/flu\/whatever right in time for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 I’m washing my hands obsessively to try to keep that from happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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