She gets out of the house!
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| I get away from you, bonus! |
She gets to play with other toddlers and learn how to act like normal part of society.
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| I sure can't learn that at home |
There is one huge downside: A group of toddlers have more germs than a gas station bathroom floor and they LOVE to share.
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| Don't forget how much I love to pick my nose and then touch you! |
Faith as been running a 100+ degree fever since last Thursday night and then Cordelia got the same thing...and now I have it too.
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| Cookie Monster, do you hear the BLAME I'm getting?? |
The disease of the month seems to be some kind of viral bronchitis. Faith has been up coughing until after 1am for the last 3 nights and I have that yucky tightness in my chest that makes running up the stairs painful. Cordelia had a scary wheeze for about 24 hours, but now she's almost all better with just a little runny nose. Maybe we should all be drinking breastmilk.
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| OMG Mommy, that is more embarrassing than the berries all over my face. |
The combination of not getting more than 3 hours of sleep a night all week with feeling sick is kicking my butt. I haven't run since Monday and I don't even care. Well, that's a lie. I care, but I need to feel better before I can try to run. I don't want to prolong this sickness at all!
We took Faith back to the doctor this morning and he prescribed something to help her breathing, but he warned "This may make her hyper." Just what a sick toddler housebound during a snowstorm needs. I'm just hoping it lets her sleep through the night. Having two kids up at night is a smile killer.
Would you drink a glass of breastmilk if it would shorten your illness? Don't lie, you totally would.
yes. I don't know where I'd get it though.
ReplyDeletehaha
I completely know this feeling. The rules equally apply to when your child has to go to daycare for a couple of days. Hope you feel better soon!
ReplyDeleteI work with a woman who has 2 kids under the age of 3, both in daycare. The kids are sick all the time, she's sick...so now I'm sick for the second time this winter.
ReplyDeleteTotally miserable right now. You're right...I would definitely drink it, if it would make my head feel better.
Hope you feel better soon!
I feel perfectly healthy, so I'm going to say no to the breastmilk. I'll give you a call when I feel sick.
ReplyDeleteI drank some breastmilk. It wasn't that good. I have it on video.
ReplyDeleteThe only kind of illness that really kills me is being sick to my stomach. And I seriously doubt that drinking breast milk would help that. So, no.
ReplyDeleteI was really worried about what Faith had caught at preschool until you explained the berry-face. I thought there was a case of the purple plague going through your town.
ReplyDeleteI would drink breastmilk to feel better only if it was gluten-dairy-soy-calorie free, local, organic and from a Cambodian immigrant. I have standards.
Feel better!
I thought the same thing about the purple plague!
DeleteI was really excited that I met your high standards until the Cambodian part.
DeleteOh man. That totally stinks. I hope Faith is better ASAP. At least the baby is staying relatively healthy.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter was three months old she had steroid inhalers for a respiratory virus and no joke, she learned how to roll over, BOTH WAYS, that very night. She was juiced up to the max.
Oh god, I can't wait to see how Faith reacts.
DeleteHell yeah I'd drink breast milk if it cured me! Maybe send me some?
ReplyDeleteI feel so disgusting not having worked out in a few days, but when taking a shower zaps all your energy, working out seems impossible...and I've been getting more sleep than you. I can only imagine what YOU feel like. Hell, try the breast milk and report back!
I'm not sure your breastmilk will help you because you'd just be giving yourself the same antibodies. You should do a breastmilk exchange.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that you and your family is sick. It's so hard to get well when you only have a few hours of sleep. B had a cough that was keeping her up at night too. I elevated her head, turned on the humidifier, and gave her chamomile tea with honey before bed. It's helping us so far. But now that I said it, she's going to be up all night. Dammit.
You know, I don't have any friends willing to swap breastmilk. I really need to evaluate my friendship criteria.
DeleteHell yes I would. Preferably in a bowl of cereal, but whatever. I'm not picky.
ReplyDeleteHope everyone feels better soon!
I tried putting breastmilk on a few cuts and it actually did help. I don't think drinking breastmilk would help you since you already have the same proteins in your body and you are a terrible mother for not breastfeeding Faith until she was at least 8. Now you'll never make the cover of Time magazine.
ReplyDeleteI put breastmilk in Cordelia's eye and cured her clogged tear duct infection in less than 24 hours. It's some magic shit.
DeleteOh man, sorry you guys are sick:( I remember when my kids started school, I was literally sick all year! Hope I didn't scare you:) Yes, I would down the breastmilk to cure my sickness. I actually never tried my own breastmilk when I nursed my boys. Weird? I'm not a fan of warm milk. Feel better:)
ReplyDeleteThe only reason I ever tried my own was to test for lipase (it makes the milk taste soapy and could be the reason the baby won't take a bottle). Tasted like sugar water, wasn't impressed with myself.
DeleteI might drink breastmilk if I could disguise it as something else - maybe chocolate breastmilk would be more palatable. Or maybe I could put it in our milk frother and make a cappuccino out of it.
ReplyDeleteOr eat it as cheese like that chef in NY served in his restaurant?
DeleteI would drink congealed horse semen if it would make me feel better.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you need to try that.
uh oh. i was totally hyper as a kid b/c of all my asthma meds to "help my breathing".
ReplyDeletei think i'd have to be pretty sick to try it...
feel better!
That sucks! I cannot imagine living on that little sleep. Fingers crossed for tonight. I HATE respiratory infections and would do anything to avoid them, so bring on the breast milk if that's what it would take. But I've spent 8 years building up immunity to kid germs. KNOCK ON WOOD.
ReplyDeleteI would try breastmilk if it meant a shorter cold. I'm so sick of colds.
ReplyDeleteAfter one cold season in preschool it will get much better. Our first year in preschool was terrible for sickness, but after that pretty smooth sailing. Now that they're in elementary school, we're having another tough-ish one, but nothing like that first preschool one. The "building up immunity" thing really works--and bonus for you, Cordelia may have a cast-iron immune system already by the time she goes to preschool.
Definitely. And I'd squirt it in my eye if I had pink eye.
ReplyDeleteHope the sickness leaves you all soon.
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oh my gosh, you poor thing... Hope Faith & Mommy are feeling better soon!
ReplyDeleteDo we know WHOSE breastmilk it is? Cuz I might be a no on that one.
ReplyDeleteHope you all feel better soon!
I hate being sick so much I think I would ingest ANYTHING that shortened - or better, PREVENTED - any illness. I am the world's worst patient.
ReplyDeleteJust caught up on all of your recent posts. Sorry to hear you have met my mortal enemy... DAYCARE GERMS. I tell myself it was going to happen sooner or later, but it's never a good time.
ReplyDeleteI feel you, sister!