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Faith woke up in a really fussy mood and refused to eat breakfast. Sometimes getting outside can change her mood (plus the cookies in the stroller don't hurt), so I took her for a 3 mile run. She was quiet during the run, but started having tantrums as soon as we got back. I went to go pick her up off the floor mid-tantrum and realized she felt hot...really hot. I took her temperature and it was 102 degrees, so I ended up taking her straight the doctor in my running clothes because they had an opening right then.
After 2 hours at the doctor's office full of sitting in a waiting room, getting examined, and having blood taken we found out that Faith seems to have a viral infection in addition to her strep/scarlet fever. Her strep is already gone (they retested) and prior to our trip, her rash looked a lot better. She really, really hates the doctor and she screamed so much about getting examined that she burst little blood vessels in her face where her rash was, so now she looks like she has blood freckles.
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| She doesn't half ass her resistance efforts |
Since her blood work indicated that this is a viral infection, there isn't much I can do for her other than Motrin and Tylenol. Plus, she's already on antibiotics from the strep. Luckily her fever responded well to Motrin and it's been 99.5-ish since I started giving it to her.
You'd think her rash and her feverish pallor would make other parents keep their kids away from her in the waiting room, but surprisingly I had to referee quite a bit. Faith was just sitting next to me coloring in her Care Bear coloring book and one little girl ran up and said "Can I color too?" and reached for a crayon. I had a totally reasonable reaction.
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| Seriously kid, get some survival instinct |
Due to the time of the year, the waiting room was full of healthy kids getting sports and school physicals and then just me and the Plague Child. I'm pretty sure that if she is contagious, at least 3 other kids are going to be sick now. At least I tried to sit on the sick kid side and keep her away from others?
By the time we got home and I fed Faith some lunch, I was exhausted and really didn't feel like running (napping sounded so much better). The only thing that stopped me was that I was already in sweaty workout gear. You don't read that tip in magazines for finding workout motivation: Put on stinky clothes! No choice but to just hurry up and sweat so you can finally change and stop grossing yourself out!
I have to take Faith back to the doctor on Thursday for a follow up appointment and I'm crossing my fingers that she'll be totally healthy by that point. I feel bad that she hasn't been able to do anything fun in days (other than her 20 minutes of outside playtime yesterday). Everyday she asks "Pool?" and I have to say no and I feel bad. I tried to play up bath time "Just like the pool, but warm!" but she knows I'm a liar.
One of her medicines (the one for the rash) is spearmint flavored and she hates it so much. Since she can make my life really hard by refusing to take a medicine, I've resorted to bribery. Now she thinks taking her medicine is the best thing ever.
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| Mommy is such a sucker |
That kid would eat escargot if she got a lollipop for doing it.
As a cherry on my the sundae of my day, my husband had to work late and we had a tornado pass through our county, so that meant the dog was even more clingy than a sick toddler. The Thunder Shirt works really well in normal storms, but this was too much for it to handle. She just has such great natural instincts about storms. Apparently the only safe spot is ON me.
Faith must really not be feeling well because she asked to go to bed 30 minutes before her normal time, so that was nice. Hopefully I won't hear from her until the morning! I might copy her and go to bed early today. I'm not one of those people who feels compelled to stay up late watching the Olympics (and subsequently complain how the Olympics are "SO EXHAUSTING to keep up with!"). I have great confidence that if anything noteworthy happens, I'll hear about it on the news and then I can find the clip online. Maybe I just don't hold the Olympic watching experience as sacred as other people.
Since this was a depressing post full of complaining, my gift to you is a link to the Mars Curiosity Rover's twitter. Start from the bottom and enjoy.
What do you think is the lamest Olympic sport to watch? I'd say indoor cycling after last night. I kept saying "Is this it? Have they started? Does the slowest guy win? I don't get this at all."
I don't get the velodrome stuff. There's laps, but sometimes there's not? Why is it banked? Why are they wearing sunglasses? What's up with the weird wheel?? Seriously.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why they have commentators if they don't freaking EXPLAIN stuff like that
Deletethere's two cycling events:
Deletethe one with two teams that start on opposite sides, and try to catch each other,
and the one where they go slow behind a "pace car" (scooter), then when the scooter drops off, they go balls out sprint.
It's not that complicated.
sigh. this helps, but doesn't :)
Deletethe "weird wheel" is solid like that because it provides less wind resistance. The reason they don't use it outdoors in the Tour de France or anything is that if there's a crosswind, it really fucks with them because of the extra cross-sectional surface area.
DeleteThe sunglasses are so they can see when there's a 30+ mph wind in their faces.
And the helmets are because there was a big discount on them when the Star Wars movies finally ended.
DeleteEw - I'd have a hard time taking spearmint medicine too. If someone is chewing spearmint gum near my it usually ends up making me feel nauseous. I have no idea why...it just is.
ReplyDeleteLamest sport to watch? Sailing. I saw a fake commentary video for olympic sailing that was pretty brilliant.
Sailing is so big where I live. Saying you think it's lame is like saying you don't like the taste of Old Bay on your blue crabs.
DeleteDo you wonder where Faith picked up this wretched virus? I always get really pissed when my kid gets sick and get all ragey when I try to think of who gave it to her.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a huge germ freak, but when I see kids out and about with slimy faces and raspy voices I want to shake their parents.
Oh, I HATE to see a kid out with oozing green snot. Maybe it's just allergies, but still. Just stay home for the day.
Deletewtf is indoor cycling? I was in the ER all afternoon/evening/night with a friend who is visiting and got sideswiped by a yellow cab and it was the only thing on. I didn't get it at all.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness your friend knows a good lawyer :)
DeleteAnd as I sit watching the waves crash in and the kids a nicely playing in the room, I pause for a moment and think of my poor friend Kara. And then I take a sip of my green tea and put my feet up. ;-)
ReplyDeleteRelax extra for me too :)
Deletefencing. i love the Olympics but i don't get that one.
ReplyDeleteStart with the Sabre. Basically, the first person to hit the other person with the sword wins. Any part of the sword (above the handle, of course) is fair game, and any part of the body.
DeleteOf course, it goes so fast that you really can't see who gets the point, even sometimes when they play it in slow motion.
I'm with you on the indoor cycling. Seriously? What is the point of that? Today we watched indoor cycling sprint. Which is literally just 2 laps around. It's over in 20 seconds. B.O.R.I.N.G
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part was how they had to have a "helper" dude balance them before the start.
DeleteObviously the most boring sport to watch is Dressage. WTF, It's horse ballet. That sucks ass.
ReplyDeleteHAHA. i was going to say this just to get on her nerves :)
DeleteI don't say it just to get on her nerves. That's just a bonus.
DeleteC'mon, it's nowhere near as good as you make it sound: the horses don't sing in Italian - they don't sing at all. And the sets are primitive. And the costumes are pathetic.
DeletePoor Faith :-( Viruses suck big time. Hope a good night sleep is helping her feel better today.
ReplyDeleteI always get those broken blood vessels with I puke - true story.
I only catch the replay highlights of the Olympics before bed. Half of it I don't understand, but I can't help at just marvel at how frigging CUT all of the athletes are! Rock hard machines!
I was thinking that about the hurdlers last night! They all have crazy abs!
DeleteI haven't watched the Olympics since the first couple of days, so I have no problem going to bed at a reasonable hour.
ReplyDeleteFaith is a champ. She doesn't just get sick, she get the plague!
She doesn't half ass anything in her life.
DeleteAw poor Faith! I hope she gets better soon. Do you have strep?
ReplyDeleteI only watch gymnastics, swimming and running. Everything else is boring to me.
I like the really obscure sports. Those are fun.
DeleteAww, hope Faith is feeling better soon. She just does not sound happy.
ReplyDeleteAnd I am totally with you on the indoor cycling. I have never seen people bike so slow in my life as they do at first and call it a race. I'm not sure why they don't just go fast when the gun goes off? Can they not sprint 3 laps on the track?
I feel like there MUST be a good reason that they slowly go for two laps and then race the third, but it was not evident when I watched!
DeleteHow many times have you been to the doctor this week? Do you own stock in the practice?
ReplyDeleteI find almost any sport fascinating when it's in the olympics - any other time I might not pay attention to it, but if it's during the olympics I am hooked. That being said - the indoor volleyball is not as fun as the beach volleyball. I've also never really liked soccer, so that one gets my vote.
I really should get some sort of "9 visits and your 10th is copay free!" coupon.
DeleteWater polo and soccer are pretty damn boring to watch. I tried to get into dressage, but don't get it at all. But I know that's your genre.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame anyone for thinking dressage is boring. It's impossible to know what's going on if you don't have experience with it!
DeleteAs Kara said, it is impossible to appreciate dressage unless you have experience with drugs, so must of us just completely ignore it.
DeleteWhat's indoor cycling? Are people just spinning? My least favorite is probably something like rowing. It just does not have the excitement factor for me.
ReplyDeleteFaith is like me... if something happens in your life it has to be in the most dramatic fashion possible.
ReplyDeleteI have a love/hate relationship for the OLympics bc it keeps me up... drinking wine...
I watched a 4 minute highlight on demand of indoor cycling and that was enough for me. It didn't make any sense. What is the point of going 300 m on a bike inside? Hope the plague child is better soon.
ReplyDeletePoor Faith! I hope she feels better soon! I watched some of the indoor cycling and I thought it was the weirdest thing ever. The Olympics are always fun for showing me sports I didn't know existed. I always wonder how people get into those kind of sports. I get running, gymnastics, swimming, volleyball, etc, but the other stuff baffles me a little.
ReplyDeleteOk, I love indoor cycling but maybe that's just me!There's a velodrome here in Boulder and it's wicked cool. I can't handle water polo! They were flopping all over in the water the other day, and the only exciting thing was watching two of them battle it out and smash each other's heads into the water. That was kinda awesome. Oh, and indoor team volleyball? Takes wayyyyy too long. I can't waste that much of my life on a single game. Or match. Or whatever.
ReplyDeleteFurther more, did you see the little red plastic penalty box in water polo? It like floats all over the corner of the tv screen and is weird looking. No sport should have such a wimpy looking penalty box.
DeleteWow, I cycle and didn't even realize there was such a thing as indoor cycling. Sounds lame.
ReplyDeleteMan your day makes me want to cry for you and Faith. I usually scream that hard when I get blood drawn too, so I can really sympathize. I think fitfluential might be interested in that workout tip.
ReplyDeleteHopes she's feeling better!
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