I guess it couldn't last forever, though I did hope we might be illness-free till at least the fall. Sadly, that is not to be: poor Joshua is ill again, with a fever and "sicking up" (as he calls throwing up ( Read more... )

Ahhhhhhhhhh ( Read more... )

It's T Minus 2 Days and Counting till our vacation.

How can you tell?
Because Zachary was diagnosed with mild pneumonia yesterday, and I went spiralling into illness myself, with that oh-so-wonderful feeling creeping into my chest yesterday.

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Maybe the sun will burn it away?

So apparently my record for rare illnesses continues. In this case, my eye ( Read more... )

I have one of the worst immune systems in the world, it seems like at times. It won't, for example, actually protect me from picking up every cold, illness, and sniffle my children catch (case in point: they both got sick this week, and would you guess who got sick on Thursday??). But it will decide to over-react and cause me all sorts of other ( Read more... )

As a parent, there is nothing so horrible as your children being sick or injured or in pain, and there's really nothing you can do about it, except hug and rock and sing and be with them ( Read more... )

So I've been oddly sick all week. I think, when my new medical coverage kicks in, that I truly must see a doctor ( Read more... )

I am SOOO done with being sick. Really, enough already. Though I must say I've never been sick before where my face HURT. Is this a sinus infection? It's not where I would expect, the area just next to my nose... instead, it's right below it, along my cheekbone. And it hurts. And sometimes it shoots down making my jaw and sometimes my teeth ( Read more... )

So Zachary was indeed let home on Saturday, though that's not to say he's healthy but rather meant he wasn't having any breathing problems, his lungs weren't full of fluid, and they felt confident that he could be cared for at home (even inspite of the fact that I was so exhausted I was slurring my words ( Read more... )